PASS-AROUND THE MAGIC®

Company founders, Cheryl Chitayat, Psy.D and Dafna Soltes Stein, CMA, RDE, have combined their areas of expertise to fully develop Pass-Around Storytelling™ for parents, educators and mental health professionals alike.  Working together as Pass-Around the Magic, they design and conduct workshops for schools, camps, executives, interfaith teen leaders, mental health professionals, parents and foster care families.

“Dr. C”, as many call her, is an experienced Psychologist in private clinical practice who specializes in the holistic treatment of children and families, among other areas of professional focus.  She originated the technique of Pass-Around Storytelling™ as a play therapy tool, and consistently finds it to be a powerful means of engaging children in productive psychotherapy.  With Pass-Around Storytelling, the “Pass-Around” structure helps foster a strong working alliance, while the storytelling itself becomes a therapeutic dialogue from the start.    

Dafna, a master Artist-Educator, is known for her creative educational residencies that integrate storytelling, theater and dance with core curriculum subjects to support high student achievement.  Throughout her career, she has designed and facilitated viscerally engaging arts-based learning experiences, dynamic family education workshops, as well as professional development trainings in a multitude of settings.  The playwright and performer of two Off-Broadway one-woman theatre works, Dafna continues to develop independent performance projects.

Blending the “Spice of Arts Education” with the “Flavor of Psychology”, the creative method of PASS-AROUND STORYTELLING was formed!