Orange County Psychodrama Training Group for Professionals

Orange County Psychodrama Training Group for Professionals

When

02/08/2019 - 02/10/2019    
9:30 am - 5:00 pm

Where

Balboa Horizons
129 Cabrillo Street, Costa Mesa, CA, 92627

Event Type

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In this ongoing Orange County Psychodrama Training Group for Professionals, participants will learn specific action methods techniques, such as sociometry, psychodrama and group psychotherapy, will have the opportunity to practice them and to explore how they can be applied to their current clientele.

TOPICS WILL INCLUDE:

  • Engaging and motivating clients
  • Helping clients connect to self and others
  • Helping clients progress in treatment
  • Building group cohesion
  • Dealing with conflict in group

Most professionals who train in psychodrama do not go on to pursue certification, but are keen to learn effective techniques that they can ethically practice with their clients.  This group is open to therapists, counselors, interventionists, bodyworkers, treatment center front-line staff, coaches, teachers, doctors, nurses, attorneys or anyone working in the helping professional who can benefit from utilzing action methods in their work.

Because those of us working in the helping professions find it difficult to find safe spaces in which to do our own work, this group also serves as a place to do that.  When training in psychodrama, students direct each other in personal growth psychodramas, allowing for healing and transformation for everyone.  Great care is taken to build strong safety, and a commitment to confidentiality is made each time the group meets.  Group members have found the group invaluable in pursuing both their personal and professional work and in having an ongoing community of like-minded practitioners with whom they can continue to walk the path of healing and recovery.

Group members must make a 3 consecutive scheduled group weekend commitment to THIS group to start (including financially). Since the dates will be available in advance, the expectation is that group members will attend. If there is a cause for absence, refunds will not be issued.  In addition, closure must be done over the course of 2 groups.

A personal interview with our CEO, Jean Campbell, LCSW, TEP, is required before registering for this ongoing training group.

Course meets the qualifications for 18.5 hours of continuing education credit (per weekend) for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. CAMFT approved CE Provider #123417. Provider approved by CCAPP-EI, Provider Number 2N-10-135-0220 for 18.5 CEH’S (per weekend).  18.5 CEHs (per weekend) available for Certified Experiential Therapy (CET) AND Psychodrama.

Action Institute of California is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs and/or LEPs.  Action Institute of California maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

FEE:  $475 per weekend
There is a $10 charge per group for CEUs for LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, CAADAC/CCAPP, CET or Psychodrama, or an annual CEU fee of $30 for members of this group.

Future 2019 Group Dates: April 26-28, August 23-25; November 1-3

Educational Objectives For This Training Weekend:

  1. To offer participants 2 sociometric tools to help engage clients.
  2. Participants will be able to identify 2 differences in choice of sociometric questions when dealing with conflict in group.
  3. Participants will be able to identify 2 ways that telic vs. transferential questions affect group interaction.
  4. Participants will be able to create and implement a series of questions to explore both tele and transference in group.
  5. Students will be able to identify their own telic vs. transferential relationships in group, and engage in this (Tough, Tight, Tender) exercise to practice for implementation with their own clients.
  6. Participants will be able to name 2 differences between closing and opening sociometry questions.
  7. Participants will be able to name 2 ways in which the group sociometry has changed as a result of Tough, Tight, Tender exercise.
  8. Participants will be able to identify 2 ways that attachment style can impact group members’ ability to stay present in sociometric exercises re: conflict.
  9. Participants will be able to identify 2 effective tools and techniques that fellow student utilized in directing a warm up or choosing a protagonist.
  10. Participants will be able to identify 2 effective techniques or tools that a fellow student utilized while directing a psychodrama
  11. Participants will be able to name 2 benefits of utilizing action for containment.
  12. Participants will be able to name 2 different exercises to utilize for opening sociometry.
  13. Participants will be able to identify 2 psychodramatic or sociometric techniques or tools that they can implement in their therapeutic work with clients.
  14. Participants will be able to identify 2 techniques to utilize when exploring transferences in group.
  15. Participants will be able to identify 2 ways telic and transferential relationships affect protagonist’s sculpture.
  16. Participants will be able to identify 2 psychodramatic or sociometric techniques or tools that they can implement in their therapeutic work with clients.
  17. Participants will be able to identify 2 benefits of positive focused, telic containment exercises to end a weekend.