Using Action to Effect Change
PSYCHODRAMA TRAINING WORKSHOP
In this workshop, participants will be trained on the theory and practice of sociometry, psychodrama and group psychotherapy, with a focus on working with addiction and trauma. Participants will have the opportunity to practice techniques and explore how they can be applied to their current clientele. This group can also serve as a safe, supportive place to pursue personal and professional growth, with opportunities for student directing.
TOPICS WILL INCLUDE:
Motivating clients
Helping clients connect to self and others
Helping clients progress in treatment
Building group cohesion
June 29, 2013
Huntington Memorial Hospital
Pasadena, CA
9:30 am - 5:00 pm
$125 if paid in advance; $150 at the door
Credit card payments accepted
CEU’S AVAILABLE FOR CALIFORNIA MFT/LCSW, CAADAC, NAADAC, LPC, CAS, CET AND PSYCHODRAMA
PSYCHODRAMA DIRECTOR’S WEEKENDS
This 3-day psychodrama directing intensive is designed specifically for those who are interested in sharpening their directing skills, and adding new ones to their directing “tool box”. No prior directing experience is required. A safe and supportive environment will be created to offer participants an opportunity to develop their skills in the role of director, including exploration of the following:
Structuring the drama - beginning, middle and end
Using auxiliaries effectively
What do I do when I get stuck?
Containment vs. Expansion
July 19-21, 2013
November 1-3, 2013
2384 Newport Boulevard, Costa Mesa, CA 92627
$485 if registered one month in advance; $535 thereafter
Credit card payments and payment plans available
CEU’S AVAILABLE FOR CALIFORNIA MFT/LCSW, CAADAC, NAADAC, LPC, CAS, CET AND PSYCHODRAMA
PSYCHODRAMA TRAINING GROUP FOR PROFESSIONALS IN
ORANGE COUNTY, CA
In this ongoing professional training group, participants will be trained on the theory and practice of sociometry, psychodrama and group psychotherapy. Participants will have the opportunity to practice these techniques and explore how they can be applied to their current clientele. This group will also serve as a safe, supportive place to pursue personal and professional growth, with opportunities for student directing.
TOPICS WILL INCLUDE:
• Motivating clients
• Helping clients connect to self and others
• Helping clients progress in treatment
• Building group cohesion
2013 Dates
June 8th-9th; September 7th-8th; December 7th-8th
9:30 am - 5:00 pm each day
2384 Newport Boulevard, Costa Mesa, CA 92627
$300 per weekend group
Group members must make a 3 weekend commitment (including financially). Since the dates are available in advance, the expectation is that group members will attend. If there is a cause for absence (full or partial weekend), refunds will not be issued.
Credit card payments accepted
CEU’S AVAILABLE FOR CALIFORNIA MFT/LCSW, CAADAC, NAADAC, LPC, CAS, CET AND PSYCHODRAMA
PSYCHODRAMA TRAINING GROUP FOR PROFESSIONALS
IN SAN DIEGO, CA
In this ongoing professional training group, participants will be trained on the theory and practice of sociometry, psychodrama and group psychotherapy. Participants will have the opportunity to practice these techniques and explore how they can be applied to their current clientele. This group will also serve as a safe, supportive place to pursue personal and professional growth, with opportunities for student directing.
TOPICS WILL INCLUDE:
• Motivating clients
• Helping clients connect to self and others
• Helping clients progress in treatment
• Building group cohesion
2013 Dates
June 1st-2nd; October 19th-20th; December 14th-15th
9:30 am- 5:30 pm each day
$300 per weekend group
Group members must make a 3 weekend commitment (including financially). Since the dates are available in advance, the expectation is that group members will attend. If there is a cause for absence (full or partial weekend), refunds will not be issued.
Credit card payments accepted
315 Laurel Street
San Diego, CA 92130
CEU’S AVAILABLE FOR CALIFORNIA MFT/LCSW, CAADAC, NAADAC, LPC, CAS, CET AND PSYCHODRAMA
CORE PSYCHODRAMA TRAINING GROUP FOR PROFESSIONALS
This CORE training group will meet once this year and twice in 2014, with each unit being 4 days. Participants will be trained on the theory and practice of sociometry, psychodrama and group psychotherapy, and have the opportunity to practice these techniques and explore how they can be applied to their current clientele. This group will also serve as a safe, supportive place to pursue personal and professional growth, with opportunities for student directing.
2013-2014 Dates
September 21-24, 2013;
February 8-11, 2014; July 12-15, 2014
9:30 am - 5:00 pm each day
7720 El Camino Real, Suite 2F
Carlsbad, CA 92009
$550 per unit, if registered 2 months in advance;
$600 thereafter
Group members must make a commitment to all 3 units (including financially). Since the dates are available in advance, the expectation is that group members will attend. If there is a cause for absence (full or partial weekend), refunds will not be issued.
Credit card payments accepted
CEU’S AVAILABLE FOR CALIFORNIA MFT/LCSW, CAADAC, NAADAC, LPC, CAS, CET AND PSYCHODRAMA
MONTHLY CP/TEP EXAM
PREPARATION CLASSES
These conference call classes are designed for those who want to deepen their understanding of sociometry, psychodrama and group psychotherapy, and can serve as a great addition to your preparation for the CP or TEP exams.
2012 DATES
TEP Exam Preparation
2013 Dates TBD by Class Participants
CP Exam Preparation
Once a month from 12-2 pm PT via Skype
2013 Dates
March 26
$85 per class
PSYCHODRAMATIC BODYWORK®
ADVANCED TRAINING GROUP
The Advanced Level Training allows us to practice and integrate the methods and information learned in the two earlier training programs. By using our own personal issues and blocks, we will experientially learn to enhance our clinical work. This level consists of 5 units, each 4 days in duration, spread over two years, or more .
Trusting our intuition is the foundation of the Advanced Level training. Students are encouraged at all times to draw from this source. They develop a heightened awareness of their own intuitive abilities through this process. On going therapy is a requirement at this level of training. Because the training is about entering fully into our bodies, and our bodies are where the traumas are stored, it is necessary to have the container of ongoing therapy to complete and support the deep transformational work that can take place. Personal healing does occur because it is an experiential training, but it is not a personal therapy group. Each participant is responsible for the care of their own "wounded self" during and after the training.
In addition, we find that when students release their bodily pain, it is very common for grounded spirituality to emerge spontaneously. They will often find themselves connecting to the spiritual realm, which is encouraged and supported at this level of training.
Unit IV 2013 Meeting Dates:
October 2nd, 2013 (evening)
October 3rd- 7th 9:30 am - 5:00 pm schedule all 5 days
Location Apex, NC
FEE: $825 (credit card payments and payment plans available)
CEU’S AVAILABLE FOR CALIFORNIA MFT/LCSW, CAADAC, NAADAC, LPC, CAS, CET AND PSYCHODRAMA
Please note that you must have completed both the Introductory and Intermediate levels of Psychodramatic Bodywork® to participate in this training process. This is the final of 4 units. Once you join the group, you are financially responsible for all 4 units, whether you decide to continue or not.
SOCIOMETRY WEEKEND
This 3-day sociometry intensive is designed to help participants better understand how to identify the covert structure of a group, and make it overt in a way that feels inviting and safe to their clients. Sociometric explorations such as spectrograms, locograms, barometers, action sociograms, social atoms, and the diamond of opposites will be explored. We will specifically look at timing of interventions, and techniques to help address issues of isolates, cleavages/cliques, transferences and resentments, so that participants will have a strong set of skills to address any group-related sociometric dynamics.
A safe and supportive environment will be created to offer participants an opportunity to develop their skills in the role of sociometrist.
Fall Workshop in SoCal Dates TBD
Friday through Sunday,
9:00 am - 5:30 pm on Friday and Saturday
9:00 am - 3:00 pm on Sunday
$485 if registered one month in advance; $535 thereafter
Credit card payments and payment plans available
CEU’S AVAILABLE FOR CALIFORNIA MFT/LCSW, CAADAC, NAADAC, LPC, CAS, CET AND PSYCHODRAMA
DETAILS TO COME
INTRODUCTORY PSYCHODRAMATIC BODYWORK® WORKSHOP
This workshop, which is open to all, combines two forms of psychotherapy: bodywork and psychodrama. The former involves safe touch to help individuals connect with the messages that are held in the body as pain, numbness and/or illness. In the latter, blocked spontaneity from earlier traumas is unblocked and re-integrated through dramatic action methods. Jean works with a skilled team of assistants who perform skits and demonstrations that help illustrate the theory. The atmosphere is relaxed and fun and fosters learning in an easy, natural manner.
The Introductory Level Workshop focuses on:
• Understanding, witnessing and experiencing the emotional release of anger, fear and sadness - from barely expressed to full released
• Learning where the body holds each of these emotions when they are unexpressed
• Learning and practicing guidelines for safe touch
• Increasing our comfort with the use of safe touch
• Understanding the integration of bodywork in the structure of a psychodrama
• Understanding how the holding of emotion affects the recovery process
• Closure theory
Friday through Sunday
9:30 am - 5:00 pm each day
CEU’S AVAILABLE FOR CALIFORNIA MFT/LCSW, CAADAC, NAADAC, LPC, CAS, CET AND PSYCHODRAMA
INTERMEDIATE PSYCHODRAMATIC BODYWORK® WORKSHOP
This workshop combines two forms of psychotherapy: bodywork and psychodrama. The former involves safe touch to help individuals connect with the messages that are held in the body as pain, numbness and/or illness. In the latter, blocked spontaneity from earlier traumas is unblocked and re-integrated through dramatic action methods. Jean works with a skilled team of assistants who perform skits and demonstrations that help illustrate the theory. The atmosphere is relaxed and fun and fosters learning in an easy, natural manner.
The Intermediate Level Workshop focuses on:
• The three styles of blocking anger, sadness and fear
• Identifying the meridians in the body that relate to each blocking style
• Relating the blocking styles to various life traumas and the healing process
• Four basic headache patterns and how to work with them
• Working with the psychodramatic techniques of doubling, somatic doubling, role playing and role reversal
Next Workshop Date in Southern California TBD
$485 if registered one month in advance; $535 thereafter.
Credit card payment and payment plans available
CEU’S AVAILABLE FOR CALIFORNIA MFT/LCSW, CAADAC, NAADAC, LPC, CAS, CET AND PSYCHODRAMA
DETAILS TO COME
CEU’s offered at all trainings for California LCSW and MFT, CAADAC, NAADAC, CAS, LPC (through the National Association of Professional Counselors), Certified Experiential Therapists (CET) and Psychodrama.
Please download our Registration form and submit it with payment to:
Action Institute of California
P.O. Box 277
Cardiff, CA 92007
Please review our CANCELLATION POLICY prior to registering for our workshops.
Please note that we request that participants abstain from any mood or mind-altering substances during the course of the day-long or weekend workshop, even if you are not in recovery. This allows participants to stay focused on their emotional and spiritual work.
We also request that all workshops and trainings be scent-free (other than pure essential oils). Many people have allergies to such substances and we appreciate your abstaining from wearing any perfumes or colognes while participating (essential oils are ok).
© 2007, Action Institute of California
P.O. Box 277
Cardiff, CA 92007
Phone: 310-909-9780
E-mail: actioninstitute@mac.com
Website: www.theactioninstitute.com
Using Action to Effect Change
UPCOMING EVENTS