HVPI: Autumn Psychodrama Workshops

Dear Friends,

This dispatch is intended to remind you of upcoming Early Registration Discount deadlines for our fall 2010 psychodrama trainings. Please don't forget to register early in order to receive the discounted fee and ensure a space in our trainings.

We've also included some very exciting information about the Expressive Arts Therapies Summit, a new event in New York City at which Rebecca will be presenting. This event will bring together a tremendous number of creative and expressive arts therapists, students, arts professionals and healthcare professionals for learning and networking. We hope to see you there!

Sincerely,

Rebecca Walters & Judy Swallow
Directors, HVPI

Psychodrama is a natural and powerful method for helping troubled, abused and traumatized children tell their stories, safely express strong feelings and try out new behaviors and roles. This professional training will offer participants the opportunity to learn adaptations of the psychodramatic method that work especially well with groups of children ages seven through twelve. Many of these structures can be adapted to work with individuals and families.

Participants will explore and experience structures that allow for the safe acting out of children's hopes, fears and difficulties through the use of fairytales, storytelling, sociodrama, personal life stories and group-created stories. We will practice variations of therapeutic action techniques that work with children, such as doubling, multiple doubling, role playing, Playback theater, inner and outer circle, family sculpting and role training for new behavior. The use of group ritual and structures for safety and containment will be demonstrated. Ways to address the difficulties inherent in using psychodrama with children will be discussed.