.org Also go to
my explanation of Grouptalk on this website:
ASGPP Conference,
Spring,
2008! Mark your calendars! Prepare to
attend!! The 66th Annual Conference
of the national psychodrama organization in the United States, the
American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP)
(Founded in 1942 as the first professional organization devoted to
group psychotherapy):, will be held in San Antonio April 10-14, 2008.
(The last conference was at the end of April,
2007, in Brooklyn.)
The conference program and other details available at the
ASGPP website: www.asgpp.org
Australian
& New Zealand Psychodrama Association (ANZPA) Conference:
Melbourne, January 23 - 27, 2008. Theme: "A Vital Presence:
Contemporary Psychodrama in Love and Work"
Vitality illuminates the moment, enlivening our imaginative
intelligence and generative ability. It enables us to project ourselves
out towards one another and alerts us to the seamless flow between the
personal and the social worlds in which we live. Being a vital presence
has great value and relevance in contemporary life.
This conference
will offer a wide range of presentations, workshops and discussions
which highlight and explore these themes. We trust you will come, enjoy
and be replenished. Chris Hosking and Jenny Hutt
,
Co-Convenors . Conference details
http://conf.anzpa.org/.
Pre-Conference Workshops
- The Vitality of the Psychodramatic Method - Led by Dr
Max
Clayton (Australia)
- A Sociodramatic Group Experience - Led by Dr Peter Felix
Kellermann (Israel)
Post Conference Workshops
- Exploring Relational Space - Attachment and inter-subjectivity
- implications for psychodrama Led by Patricia ORourke (Australia)
- The Aesthetics of Psychodrama - Exploring the use of artistry,
the poetic, the lyrical and the dramatic Led by Annette Fisher
(Australia)
- Difficult Conversations - How to hold them, when to fold them
Led by Dr Antony Williams (Australia
Please consider coming. And then after you consider coming then come.
-- Cheers for now Peter Howie President,
Australian and New Zealand Psychodrama Association Inc
Weekend
Psychodrama Workshop with Zerka Moreno for 2008: March 28-30, 2008:
Unfinished Business ; May 23-25: Warming Up Afresh ; June 20-22:
Rehearsal for Life ; July 25-27: Exploring Your Path ; September 26-28:
Reaffirming Your Truth ; October 24-26: The Past as The Present. These
very special weekends will be
conducted by Zerka in her home in Charlottesville, Virginia. The cost
will
be
$350 with a 10% discount for ASGPP members. Limited to 12 participants.
(Workshop begins Friday at 6:30 (-9:30 PM), Saturday March 30 10 -6:30,
and Sunday 10 - 1 PM ) $350 with a 10% discount for ASGPP
members. Continuing Education Units are offered for psychodrama, NBCC
and NADAC. Though
checks should be made out to "Zerka T. Moreno Workshops," they should
be sent along with your name, address, etc., to: Dr. Jeanne Burger,
1023 West Princess Anne Rd., Norfolk, Va. 23507. Directions and
lodging suggestions will be sent upon registration. Further information
available from Jeanne Burger drjb@mindspring.com
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The Milton Erickson Foundation announces
the
release of a video collection, "The Pioneers of Psychotherapy, which
includes
Zerka Moreno, interviewed in 1985 at the Evolution of Psychotherapy
conference. A 60 minute video is $59 + $5 shipping and hanldling.
There are also many other eminent innovators and master
teachers on other tapes.
Go
to:
www.erickson-foundation.org/pioneers or email sales@erickson-foundation.org
Psychodrama Training Weekends: with Dorothy
& Mort
Satten (recent recipients of
J. L. Moreno Award:
)
Berkeley,
CA., February 8-10, 2008. Lake Arrowhead, California:
residential workshops: May 9-12, 2008; July
18-21; Call
Grayce Gusmano to sign up (602)
380-6180.
Leslie
C. Baer, MAOM - National Registration Coordinator
Hudson
Valley Psychodrama Institute (HVPI) offers professional training,
clinical internships, supervision, on-site in-services, psychodrama
services, and consultation to hospitals, substance abuse inpatient and
outpatient programs, mental health programs, battered women's programs,
schools and universities, human service agencies and industry. Judy
Swallow, MA TEP LCAT and Rebecca Walters, MS TEP LCAT LMHC,
HVPI's founders and directors, have been offering training in
Psychodrama and Action Methods for group and individual therapy since
1989. They are known for their warmth, sensitivity, humor, and ability
to create a safe environment in which students can learn and practice.
Distinguished guest faculty are also invited to present in their fields
of expertise.
Friday, March 22, 2008 - 7:30 PM: Open Psychodrama Session
February, May & September 2008: A series of 5-day training
workshops: Core II Training in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group
Psychotherapy with R.Walters, J.Swallow & R.Peterson; in Highland,
NY.
Due to high demand, we have opened a
second section for our core training in psychodrama, sociometry and
group psychotherapy. This is an intensive training experience for
professionals and students in the fields of mental health, substance
abuse and recovery, creative arts therapies, religion, human services,
personnel management, nursing and medicine, group facilitation and
education. This year-long format creates a community of learners
committed to personal and professional growth. It provides a safe place
in which to develop spontaneity as a director, auxiliary, protagonist
and group member. Special topics such as the use of psychodrama in
individual therapy, action methods with children and adolescents,
spontaneity training, working with resistance, sociodrama, the use of
the body and working with trauma may be offered. There will be many
opportunities for student directing.
May 1-5, 2008: Spring
Directing Intensive with R.Walters, in Highland, NY:
The role of the director includes the
producer, the social investigator, the group facilitator, the
analyst/guide, the conflict manger, the sociometrist and more. This
intensive will give advanced student directors the chance to explore
these many functions. Each participant get to direct a full two-hour
psychodrama group including warm up, action and sharing. Each will have
the opportunity to be the protagonist in his or her own drama. There
will be close to an hour devoted to processing each session with an
emphasis on both theory and practice. For Certified Practitioners,
trainers and advanced students. Register early! Directing Intensive is
limited to 9 participants with a minimum of 450 hours of training and
with previous psychodrama directing experience.
May 9-10: Somatic Interventions with Judy Swallow
June 19-23, Psychodrama Intensive (J.Swallow, R.Walters, & R.Peterson
July 24-28: Healing Our Interpersonal Connections: with Ann Hale, MA, TEP and Donna Little, MSW, TEP Highland, NY:
2008 Directing Cohort with R.Walters, Dates to be determined: Highland,
NY. The Directing Cohort meets three times over the course of a year,
for 4-5 days at a time. We create a community of learners committed to
personal and professional growth. The cohort provides a safe place in
which to develop spontaneity in the role of director which includes
being the producer, the social investigator, the group facilitator, the
analyst/guide, the conflict manager, the sociometrist and more. You
will be offered the chance to take a look at what you are doing that
works well (and why it works!). We will also take a look at where you
get stuck in the process of directing (and why you get stuck in that
particular spot). As a group, we look at psychodrama theory and how it
can inform our choices of action to further facilitate the drama. We
provide a chance to hone your craft as well as a safe place to be
protagonist in your own drama.
Prerequisite: 500 hours of training and at least one
previous directing intensive at HVPI. It is also expected that you will
have previously directed several full psychodramas or have permission
of the trainer.
Trainings to be held
at Boughton Place in Highland, NY: For
more info, visit our website at www.hvpi.net
or call us at 845 255 7502 ; Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute 68 DuBois Road
New Paltz, NY 12561 email: hvpi@hvc.rr.com
Psychodrama
with Children's Groups: Workshop, ? December, 2007? in Berkeley,
California; led by Rebecca Walters.
Theme: “Child Work/ Child Play.” Psychodrama and its related fields of
sociodrama, creative dramatics and playback can facilitate the healing
of wounded children. The focus of this workshop will be on group work
with children, ages seven through twelve, who are survivors of
abandonment, abuse, trauma and domestic violence. This workshop offers
specific action structures that help children tell their stories,
safely express strong feeling and find new roles.
Rebecca Walters, M.S.,
TEP, a NYS Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, is the Director of Child
and Adolescent Psychodrama Services at Four Winds Hospital
in Katonah, New York, a private psychiatric hospital where she has
worked with children, adolescents and adults since 1985. She currently
runs six psychodrama groups a week with children and adolescents. She
also directs the psychodrama internships program there. Rebecca is also
the co director of the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute.
She is certified as a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner by the
American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group
Psychotherapy. She is a fellow of American Society for Group
Psychotherapy and Psychodrama and served for six years as an elective
member of their Executive Council. Along with Judy Swallow, Rebecca was
the recipient of the ASGPP 2005 Collaborator's Award.
For more information and/or to receive a brochure,
please contact hvpi@hvc.rr.com
For more information about our other programs visit out website
at www.hvpi.net
Hudson Valley Psychodrama
Institute 68 DuBois Road New Paltz, NY
12561
(845) 255 7502 hvpi@hvc.rr.com
visit us at our website: www.hvpi.net
Psychodrama
Internships available at Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital in
Westchester, NY working with children and/or adolescents or
adults. These year long internships are for one full day
(child/adolescent or adult units) or one half day (adolescent
only) a week. Currently there are openings on our
adolescent units one morning a week. Internships on our child and adult
units may begin in January and September. For requirements and
more information go to: http://www.hvpi.net/intern.htm
or Contact Rebecca Walters Hudson Valley
Psychodrama Institute 68 DuBois Road New Paltz,
NY 12561 (845) 255 7502
hvpi@hvc.rr.com visit us at our website:
www.hvpi.net
Workshops led by Karen
Carnabucci, MSS, LCSW, TEP, and Ron Anderson,
LPC, CADCIII, TEP
The
Midwest Training Series in Psychodrama,
at Lake
House Health & Learning Center, 932 Lake Ave., Racine, Wisconsin.
Monthly workshops. Tuition is $100 / weekend, and will include
certificate of attendance with seven continuing education hours for
addiction counselors, social workers, and licensed counselors and
psychodrama hours, as well as healthy snacks and handouts.
The
series runs from October through June and focuses on professional and
personal development for professionals, including helping
professionals, attorneys, educators and others. Trainees may attend one
or all programs, with discounted rate, private consultation sessions
and other advantages for those who sign up for series. If you are not a working professional but
are interested in the personal growth aspect of this series,
please call to discuss.
We recommend registration by
Thursday, Oct. 18. Call (262) 633-2645 or
reply to this e-mail or contact Karen at lakehousecenter@gmail.com to register. See information on other
program topics at
http://www.lakehousecenter.com/mts.htm
The
series will begin its first official
training of the season with "Are We Having Fun Yet? When Work Is Play"
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20
Future International
Workshops: (2008)
Feb. 28-March 2 IAGP - Barcelona, Spain: 3rd Regional
Mediterranean Conference: www.iagp.com
Aug. (?) Tallinn Psychodrama Institute/Estonian Moreno Centre -
Tallinn, Latvia: 5th Baltic Moreno Conference www.morenokeskus.ee
Feb. 16-17 Dr.
Abdülkadir Özbek Psychodrama Institute / Istanbul Society for Psychodrama and Group Therapies Istanbul, Turkey:
2nd Psychodrama Days; nevzatuctum@gmail.com
Feb. 28-March 2 IAGP - Barcelona, Spain , 3rd Regional Mediterranean Conference www.iagp.com
April 2-6 FEPTO - Glasgow, Scotland:
16th FEPTO Annual Meeting Re-Searching Nesie - Exploring
Sociodrama www.fepto.org
April 7-8 FEPTO - Glasgow, Scotland:
3rd FEPTO Conference Challenging Cultural Conserves www.fepto.org
April 10-14 American Society
for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP) San Antonio, Texas: 66th
Annual Conference Blazing New Trails Into
Creative Consciousness www.asgpp.org
May
19-23 IAGP together with COIRAG
(Italy), AEP (Spain), SPP (Portugal), DAGG (Germany) and ÖAGG (Austira) – Granada, Spain:
9th International Granada Summer Academy: Groups Between Words and Cultures www.granada-academy.org
May
28-31 Dr Abdülkadir Özbek Psychodrama Institute together with Turkish Association of Group
Psychotherapies -
Bergama/Aesclepion, Turkey; 33rd
Internationally Contributed Group
Psychotherapies Congress www.bergama2008.org
Sept. 13-16 Psychodrama
Insitut für Europa (PIfE) -
Krakov and Auschwitz, Poland: 3rd PIfE Summer
Academy: Traces of the Holocaust in the Present www.pife-europa.eu
July 18-20 British
Psychodrama Association (BPA) - Liverpool,
UK The Pool of Life. www.psychodrama.org.uk
Aug. 22-24 Latvian
Moreno Institute/Latvian Psyhodrama Association - Valmiera, Latvia; 5th Baltic
Moreno
Conference: Beauty and the Beast www.psihodrama.lv
Nov. 21-23 Psychodrama Society “J.L. Moreno”/
Romanian Association of Classical Psychodrama - Cluj-Napoca, Romania ; 1st Psychodrama
National Conference: topic to be decided
www.psihodrama.ro
Souldrama®,
a method of spiritual psychodrama developed by Connie Miller, will be
demonstrated and applied at a number of workshops Connie is
hosting, in:
-- Melbourne,
Phillip
Island, Australia Feb 1-10, 2008
-- Grand Canyon, Arizona,
USA April 28-May 2, 2008
If you would like to know more about
Souldrama or attend or sponsor an International Training or
workshop about Souldrama, please visit the webpage http://www.souldrama.com/internationaltrainings.html
Jeanne
Burger, EDD, LMFT, TEP, is offering monthly saturday psychodrama
training and personal growth workshops in Norfolk,Virginia. These workshops
for professionals are held from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm. The cost is $50
which includes 5 CEU credits for NBCC and NAADAC. In 2008 the dates are: January 19,
February 9, March 8, April 19, May 10, June 14 ; Contact:Jeanne Burger,
TEP, 1023 West Princess Anne Rd., Norfolk, Virginia 23507. Email:drjb@mindspring.com, Phone:
757-622 4986 (h), Fax: 757- 483-0737
also, Jeanne offers Weekend Psychodrama Training
workshops in Nashville, Tennessee:
Held from Thursday evening 6-9pm, Friday 9-5pm and Saturday
9-5pm. The cost is $250 and includes 17 CEU credits for NBCC and
NAADAC. In 2008, the dates are: February 14, 15 and 16
Psychodrama for Couples and Families; May 15, 16 & 17 Your Ethical
Personal and Professional Self; August 14, 15 & 16 Twelve Steps to
Psychodrama; November 6, 7 & 8 Warming Up and Closing. Contact: Al
Adams, Nashville Psychodrama Association, 10125 Sugar Camp Road,
Bon Aqua, TN 37025. Email: aladams@myway.com,
Phone 615 512 0119.
The
ASGPP website, www.asgpp.org, has
been re-designed.
The psychodrama bibliography (Jim Sacks) is now
housed at http://pdbib.org/
Go to Links and click on sociometry links.
www.sociometry.net is
the new website for the International Sociometry Training Network which
has the potential to grow into an active resource for our
community. Right now it is new. If you have workshops featuring
sociometry or want to link check it out. Ann E. Hale
The
American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group
Psychotherapy now has a website http://www.psychodramacertification.org/
as well as an email
address: abepsychodrama@yahoo.com
Please spread the word to your
psychodrama colleagues, students, and new possible candidates.
While this
announcement is aimed mainly at
psychodramatists and students in the USA and Canada, we want to
acknowledge that there have been some
international practitioners who have also been certified (also
trainers), and of course there are programs internationally who want to
know what our standards are, etc.
Some realistic constraints: The Executive Director, Dr. Dale
Richard Buchanan, is also a well-known trainer of psychodrama who
travels a fair amount. You may not get a response immediately--but give
it some lead time. He said he is ready and eager to correspond with
others regarding Board Business. The Board's mission statement
has only two goals: To establish, on a national level, (1)
professional standards in the fields of psychodrama, sociometry and
group psychotherapy; and (2) to certify qualified professionals on the
basis of these standards. That means explaining the certification
process, guiding people through it, or helping people find a
certified practitioner or trainer.
Other types of inquiries are better addressed to the
American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama
(asgpp@asgpp.org) as they have a
broader mission. For sure, don't ask
Dale to discuss theory, recommend books, defining terms, etc.
Dale will check his email, once a day when he is in town
(i.e Washington, DC area), and once a week (at a cybercafe) when he is
traveling. The best way to reach him is still via the telephone (in the
USA: 202-483-0514). Remember that many issues--especially about
personal circumstances-- are complex enough to require the more dense
dialogue that only a phone conversation--or several--can deliver.
However, there are many instances which email is helpful, and now we
can do that too. Remember also that Dr.
Buchanan does not make policy--his position is administrative. So many
matters will have to be handled by the
Chairperson or someone on the Board, if not considered by the whole
Board at their periodic meetings.
Drama Therapy-Related Resources!
Amal Kouttab writes: Drama Therapy Community Resource Website
contains many resources for the drama therapy community and free
listing opportunities. You can find links to many drama therapy
groups, organizations, training programs and more. There are also
links to international drama therapy websites, joblinks, and a
discussion of licensure issues: <http://www.dramatherapist.com/>
If any of you would like to list a
website (no charge for listing) here, focused on drama therapy,
playback theater, or psychodrama, please email me at akouttab@sbcglobal.net
Also, I offer help in multimedia
production for the performing arts community, so if anyone in the
community is in need of videographic, video editing, webdesign, or
graphic design services at discounted rates, please visit: http://www.amaldesigns.com/
Navah Steiner" <navahnyc@msn.com> writes: The Institute for the
Arts in Psychotherapy (which has branches in San Francisco, New
York, and a training site
in Montreal) has a web-site,
so it would be great for the community to
know about it: <http://www.artstherapy.net/>
Souldrama®
and Transgenerational Psychodrama,
http://www.souldrama.com/
Using the technique of
Souldrama® and psychodrama within a group situation, we will
focus how these techniques can be used to help clients that have been
stuck to move on toward their higher purpose of souls mission. To use
the power of spiritual beliefs and interventions in briefer solution
oriented therapies.
Our objectives are to: (1) define and
integrate a multidisciplinary approach incorporating spirituality and
psychology into the group process; (2) define our personal relationship
to a higher
power which will enable clients to overcome their blocks and move
forward; (3) identify ways for mental health professionals to
apply this integrate mind-body-spirit approach to their own work; (4)
resolve invisible loyalties developed
throughout generations; (5) promote cross cultural awareness and
peace for the world. For further information, email to: connie@souldrama.com
Mario Cossa writes: I am
so EXCITED and DELIGHTED about my
new, improved website; and you're INVITED to go have a look
at <http://www.dramario.com/>
Mario Cossa, MA, RDT/MT, TEP. CAWT World Traveler
cossa@attglobal.net
Psychodrama Training &
Personal Growth Group, New York City,
led by Jacob Gershoni, L.C.S.W., T.E.P. check schedule. It will combine
experiential teaching of
Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy for two hours every
Monday night. Additional intensive weekend workshops will be held
monthly. Credit hours toward certification will be
given. 19 West 34th Street, #PH (Penthouse)
New York, N.Y.
1000-3006 (212) 795-1192
(212) 947-7111
Email:
Gej9001@nyp.org www.GrouPsychodrama.com
Jacob Gershoni is in private practice at the Sociometric Institute in
New York City and a medical social worker at New York Presbyterian
Medical Center. He is a trainer, educator and practitioner in
psychodrama and the editor of "Psychodrama in the 21st Century:
Clinical and Educational Applications" published by Springer Publishing
Co. NY, 2003
Weekend Psychodrama
The
New York Institute of Psychodrama– LOUISE LIPMAN, TEP,
LCSW,
CGP, CET III is a licensed psychotherapist and a
certified Trainer, Educator, Practitioner of Psychodrama,
Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy, She is in private
practice at the Psychodrama Training Institute in
N.Y.C.where she works with individuals, couples and groups,
Louise leads the 12 Step Psychodrama Workshops and has
facilitated groups for female Survivors of Childhood Trauma. She
teaches a Literature Review and Exam Prep Course for
Psychodrama certification, as well as leading three weekly
Psychodrama Training Groups. She integrates her extensive
background in theater and the creative arts into her practice. Louise
is a Past President of the American Society of Group
Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, the current President of the NY
chapter of the ASGPP and a certified Group Psychotherapist by the
AGPA. She is a member of The American Board of Examiners for
Psychodrama, Sociometry & Group Psychotherapy.
LipmanNYC1@aol.com
Please see my
new directory
of psychodramatists on this website! If you are a
psychodramatist
and want to network with others, send me a photo and 50 words about
yourself
(plus your email &/or website address) that you'd want others to
know
about your interests.
Please check for other international psychodrama
news! on this website!
Find what our colleagues are doing elsewhere in the world.
Let it inspire you. To those who
live in other countries, I invite you to send me the news of what's
happening in your country!!! adam@blatner.com)
A range of psychodrama books, journals and
copies of hard-to-find
or out-of-print chapters in books or journal articles are now available
and listed elsewhere on this website! Go to reprints
for sale.
Malen Malenov <malen_malenov@yahoo.com>
in Sofia, Bulgaria, has developed a wonderful website for our posting
our own ideas about a cross-reference glossary of psychodrama terms--
also sociometry and role theory-- and definitions in order to develop a
> dictionary/encyclopedia of Psychodrama. The site is called
TelePedia (from 'Tele' and 'Encyclopedia') and can be found
at http://www.telepedia.info
"The main advantage of the
site is that it can be developed by its visitors with no technical
knowledge required. It is based on the same software that is used to
build Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org)
- the
free web encyclopedia. Once one gets used to it, it is very
user-friendly and allows many people to work on it independently. I
have put Adam Blatner's article on tele (taken from his website) as a
sample cross-reference piece. (There are also interesting
interviews of David Kipper and Jorg Burmeister.)
Please, check http://www.telepedia.info
to see how it looks and feels like. Everything can be changed and
improved if necessary. All your contributions are very
welcome!" -- Malen Malenov 16,
Yanko Zabounov St., bl.50
Entr. B, Floor 3, Flat
49 1408 Sofia -
BULGARIA Tel: + 359 888 835
976
E-mail: malen_malenov@yahoo.com
http://actinplay.cult.bg
10. For articles and announcements for the British
Psychodrama
Journal, email to: kate.kirk@manx.net
For articles and announcements for the Psychodrama
Network News, the newsletter of the American Society for Group
Psychotherapy & Psychodrama, issued 2-3 / yr, email to
asgpp@asgpp.org and inquire.
For articles and announcements for the "Dramascope,"
the newsletter of the National Association for Drama Therapists, email
to its editor, c/o www.nadt.org
In Germany, get the Zeitschrift fur
Psychodrama und Soziometrie.
In German. First issue, May, 2002. Each issue is about 120 pages,
paperback.
They
have two main editors:
Dr. Ulrike Fangauf (Frankfurt/Main), email: Fangauf@t-online.de
(special interests: applications in medicine, psychotherapy, theatre.);
.. and
Prof. Dr. Franz Stimmer (Lueneburg), email:
fstimmer@compuserve.de
(special interests in social pedagogics, sociology, drug addiction).
Cost: 30 Euros / year.
They are open to considering articles
from various other countries, but they can not take
responsibility
for the translations from English or Spanish etc. into German. If there
are some students who would like to help in translating back and forth,
let them (and us all, too) know. To Obtain the Journal, please contact
the publisher:
Verlag Leske + Budrich, Postfach 300551, D-51334
Leverkusen,Germany
E-mail:
leske-budrich@t-online.de
Please note the international bibliography of
psychodrama
(compiled and updated by Jim Sacks, Ph.D., one of the main pioneers of
this method!)-- now containing more than 5,200 citations of psychodrama
writings from Moreno's first descriptions until the present, now
accessible
on the internet http://www.asgpp.org/02ref/index.htm
(Is this link still working?)
17. Ukraine: Pavel
Gornostay, Ph. D., <gorn@univ.kiev.ua>,
Vice-president of the Kiev
psychodrama association writes that they have been
publishing a psychodrama
journal
in Russian since 2002. The journal is distributed not only in Ukraine,
but
also
in other countries, first of all, in Russia. Our association
unites
16 members which recently have finished an upper course of psychodrama
in Psychodrama Institute for Europe. http://www.psychodrama.kiev.ua
Near Toronto, Canada:
Two Residential intensive psychodrama
training
opportunities:
More information can be found at the website: www.tcps.on.ca
19. ANNOUNCING 2005 - 2006 Certificate Program in
Rehearsals! for Growth™
with Daniel J. Wiener, Ph.D., RDT, Charlotte Ramseur, LMFT, and John
Phelps, LMFT.
Rehearsals! for
Growth™ (RfG) is a Drama Therapy of Relationships which applies theater
improvisation games to therapeutic work with groups, couples and
families in achieving individual and interpersonal growth. RfG
facilitates change by playfully: • exploring alternative roles •
encouraging social risk-taking • expanding emotional range and •
enacting therapeutic narratives. For RfG news,
information, and to receive email updates, visit the website: www.rehearsalsforgrowth.com
RfG Certification: Over the past 19
years, more than 1,800 clinicians have attended RfG workshops and
training seminars; many have expressed interest in receiving further
training in these methods. The Rehearsals for Growth Certificate
Program (RfG-CP) offers hands-on instruction in RfG methods at
intensive training workshops,live or video supervision of the trainee’s
work, and cotraining with Dr. Wiener. The RfG-CP is designed primarily
for mental health professionals wishing to offer this work.
Certification represents Rehearsals! for
Growth’s™ endorsement of a trainee’s familiarity with, and competence
in utilizing RfG techniques in the areas listed above. Certification
follows the satisfactory completion of sixty hours of direct training
in non-introductory workshops plus demonstrated skill in application
and teaching.
Admission Requirements: Candidates must have an undergraduate
degree and either:
(a) a graduate degree from a recognized program in psychiatry,
psychology, social work, psychiatric nursing, pastoral counseling,
professional counseling, occupational therapy, expressive arts therapy
or marriage and family therapy; or
(b) be within one academic year of completing such a graduate degree.
Ordinarily, candidates will have had professional work experience in a
clinical capacity.
Candidates lacking the above mentioned academic training but who
present extensive or unusual related training and/or work experience in
the mental health field will be considered.
Faculty: The 2005-06 RfG Certificate Program is directed
by Daniel J.Wiener, Ph.D., RDT, Professor at Central Connecticut State
University. In 2005-06, RfG-CP training sessions will be co-taught by
Dr Wiener and the following two RfG Certified Therapists:
*Charlotte Ramseur, LMFT, Adjunct Professor, Department of Counseling
& Family Therapy, CCSU.
*John Phelps, LMFT, Primary Therapist, Natchaug Hospital, Mansfield
Center, CT.
Tuition
for the 2005-06 RfG-CP program is $1250.00 A $200 deposit reserves your
space. Tuition includes all beginning, intermediate and advanced
workshops, a copy of "Rehearsals for Growth: Collected Papers,
1991-2004” and two additional hours of individual supervision from Dr.
Wiener.
2005-06 Schedule-
ALL TRAINING CONDUCTED IN THE GREATER HARTFORD, CT AREA; specific
location TBA:
(A) Improv Enactment Training FREE Introductory
Workshop
Friday, Sept 16, 2005, 4:00-6:00 pm, at: Central CT State University,
New Britain, CT
Davidson Hall, Rm. 123
(B) Fall: Beginning Training: 20 hours total; Fri. Oct.7, 6-9:30 pm,
Sat. Oct. 8, 9 am -5:30 pm,
Sun. Oct. 9, 9 am – 5 pm.
(C) Winter: Intermediate Training: 20 hours total; Fri. Jan.7, 2006,
6-9:30 pm, Sat. Jan. 21, 9 am -5:30 pm, Sun. Jan. 22, 9 am – 5 pm.
(D) Spring: Advanced Training: 20 hours total; Fri.
Mar. 31, 6-9:30 pm, Sat. Apr. 1, 9 am -5:30 pm, Sun. Apr. 2, 9 am – 5
pm.
To Apply, Contact: REHEARSALS FOR GROWTH,
LLC 2306 Berlin Turnpike, Suite #101
Newington, CT 06111 Tel: (860) 490-3337
Fax: (860) 667-3369
e-mail: Dan@rehearsalsforgrowth.com website:
www.rehearsalsforgrowth.com
22. Susan Aaron in
Toronto has two videos now available:
(1) UNDERSTANDING
& RELEASING ANGER; and (2) UNDERSTANDING & RELEASING
FEAR. They can be ordered directly off my web site www.youremotions.com. These two videos
help a practitioner identify the body symptoms that indicate
unexpressed anger/fear. This helps greatly when directing psychodramas
because the protagonist is often unaware of the underlying
emotions. The videos are presented using skits and demonstrations, so
that the theory is easily absorbed and understood.
The UNDERSTANDING & RELEASING ANGER video addresses the following
issues:
(1) Anger is often mistaken for violence and/or
rage; (2) Anger is often misdirected; (3) Unexpressed anger held
in the body does harm; (4) Memories of past angry people stay with us;
and (5) The difference between healthy release of
anger and ‘blind rage’ is clarified. The UNDERSTANDING &
RELEASING FEAR video addresses the following issues: (1) Fear expression is NOT
recognized; (2) Unexpressed fear held in the body does harm;
(3) Fear
is scary for others (unconscious ‘body doubling’ of fear); (4) Unexpressed fear can be
released and/or reduced. and (5) Unexpressed fears from the past affect the
present and future.
23.
If you read Swedish, you can subscribe to the
Swedish psychodrama
listserve:
SvensktPsykodrama-net-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
(at least 74 people on this)
24. American Soc of Experiential Therapists"
<aset1995@yahoo.com> website is
www.asetonline.com. information about organization. We don't
offer trainings, we simply offer a certification program for therapists
who are practicing Experiential Therapy in their work. We have
not graduated to the point of holding conferences, although the ASET
Board would like to see the organization progress to that level in the
future. A service that we have just begun to offer to
our members is a Yahoo! group where members can network with other
therapists who are in their field. The membership to this group
is free for ASET members although we do allow non-members to be a
part. We ask that non-members pay a $15 annual fee for the online
group to cover administration costs. If you are interested in
joining this group please let me know.
I also would be happy to put a brochure and application for ASET
in the mail if you are interested. Brenda Klontz
Anderson American Society of Experiential
Therapy 773.848.ASET (2738) www.asetonline.com
ICEL is the International
Consortium for Experiential Learning
www.el.uct.ac.za/icel
Contact: Tony Saddington in South
Africa Our next conference is in 2006 - see the website at:
www.el.uct.ac.za/icel/icel2006
ICEL mailing list:
ICEL@cpcs.umb.edu
http://cpcs.umb.edu/mailman/listinfo/icel
Website on research in drama
therapy: www.dramatherapypapers.org created so that
information could be shared in the Drama Therapy community. I
invite you to post information regarding any research that you have
completed in drama therapy. This is a great way to be in contact
with other therapists or students who are conducting similar
research. Nancy Sondag, MA, RDT/BCT NADT Membership
Chair <NSond2@AOL.COM>
Creative Arts & Drama
Therapy Workshops: Dr. Pam Dunne operates a private practice in
Westwood and leads a number of training programs and private
training for
individuals interested in drama and creative arts therapies through her
local institute and gives workshops
internationally.
Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles 1315 Westwood Blvd., Los
Angeles, CA 90024-4901(www.dramatherapyinstitutela.com)
310-226-2865 or Dr. Dunne by e-mail at pamdunnedtila@mac.com
