C.M.E.R.
ADVISORY BOARD
Deborah Heifetz-Yahav
Director Of Research
Deborah is a Certified Movement Analyst (C.M.A., 1990) and a graduate of UC Berkeley (B.A., Department of Genetics) and UCLA (M.A., Department of Dance). She recently submitted her Ph.D. to Tel Aviv University (Department of Sociology and Anthropology) on Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation, a study that drew from several theoretical basis including gender studies, the sociology of the body and emotion and the phenomenology of embodiment.
Her interdisciplinary approach is a direct result of her movement training that bridged social and biological sciences to better understand human behavior and interaction. Heifetz-Yahav is the founding director of Non-Verbal Resources, a communication training company that specializes in non-verbal communication, and an experienced teacher of LMA, particularly for dance/movement therapy students.
Heifetz-Yahav is a Chevening Scholar, which supported her work with David Morgan and Bryan Turner at the University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge, respectively. She is a Truman Fellow from the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at Hebrew University and a Research Fellow at the Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary College in Herzlyia. Her research interests include the acquisition of movement knowledge and emotional intellegence, and the application of non-verbal communication education to interpretation, identity and peacebuilding.
