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Friday April 16th,2010
Therapy in the Dramatic Mirror
The Fascinating Process of Evidenced Based Creative Arts Therapy
Presenters: Playback Theatre *
Registration& Breakfast Networking 8 am · Enjoy company and food before the workshop begins.
Workshop begins promptly at 9 am · No food or drink is allowed in the theatre.
Lunch12:15-1:15 pm is included in your registration fee.
Program 9 am to 4:30 pm - 6 hours CE
Workshop Description:
This all day workshop will immerse mental health professionals in the cutting edge, research based world of creative arts therapy & action oriented counseling.
Those attending will:
Learn about current brain research which demonstrates that action oriented approaches are powerful interventions with those who have trauma histories.
Generate practical interventions for dealing with challenging clients and working through resistance by means of experiential learning.
Create a collaborative forum for exploration of clinical challenges.
Build skills to identify& manage issues of counter transference and burnout.
Experience the transformational power of theater used therapeutically.
Learning Format:
Participants will work both in small groups and a large group format exploring their clinical challenges as those pertain to working with a particular population, specific diagnostic symptoms, relational dynamics and particular topics that emerge in the therapeutic process.
You will have the opportunity to witness powerful interventions intended to immediately improve your effectiveness as a therapist.
How participants can prepare for this training:
They can plan to bring a case that they wish to discuss that has been challenging for themselves or where they have experienced limited effectiveness in terms of treatment.
They can plan to identify experiences of countertransefernce with particular clientsor specific situations.
Please wear comfortable loose fitting clothing, and arrive prepared to explore one of your most challenging therapy cases.
* The Playback Theater Company of
This CE program is co-sponsored by AMHA-OR and Mentor Research Institute.
Mentor Research Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to provide continuing education for psychologists.
Mentor Research Institute maintains responsibility for the program and its content.
Playback Theater was first created by Jonathan Fox, a director, theatrical scholar, psychodramatist, and social activist in the 1970’s in upstate
Fees & Schedule for this event
Breakfast breads, fruit & beverages, Lunch, and Afternoon beverages included in workshop fee.
Early registration postmarked or received before April 2, 2010:
$140 member/Student with ID $160 non-member
Late registration postmarked after April 2, 2010 or at the door $155 member $175 non-member
Plan forthe Day:
Introduction to Theory and Practice of Action Oriented Therapy
Small group warm-ups.
People introduce themselves, their practice, and identify challenging client situations.
Dyads -will discuss their most challenging client/case then will have a chance to role play that client.
Debrief the experience in a small group format.
Brief Break
Large Group. Playback on Stage. Participants discuss their most challenging client, and the Playback ensemble will roleplay the situation. Audience participation with regard to creative interventions for dealing with these challenging clients. Identify and brainstorm efficiency of interventions employed.
Lunch
Small group discussions on counter transference. Participants discuss counter transference that has arisen in dealing with challenging clients. Focus on most resonant counter transference. Facilitate discussion forums of dealing and working with counter transference.
Brief Break
Large Group. Playback on Stage. Participants explore ways to identify burnout. Audience members will be encouraged to share their success stories as clinicians. Discussion about reduction and management of burnout.
Honoring the contributions of this profession to the healing of individuals, groups and the community at large.
ABOUTTHE PRESENTERS
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Jackie Paris, LMFT, RDT,
is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Registered Drama
Therapist, offering a unique array of professional counseling,
coaching, and consultation services. Jackie began and has trained the
Portland Playback Theater Troupe, and is committed to the
transformational power of the healing arts at an individual, group and
global level. Born in |
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Dino Paris LMFT
is a corporate consultant and a licensed marriage family therapist
specializing in: Transforming Business and Personal Relationships, and
Enhancing Athletic Performance. He has counseled individuals, couples, groups and corporations for over 25 years. As
a Playback Theater conductor and actor Dino lives his passion, helping
people express their stories for the purposes of personal and global
transformation. For more information: www.dinoparis.com |
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Owen James a
jazz-steeped guitarist and pianist, a classically trained vocalist, a
recovering folk songwriter, a big-band inspired vocal arranger and a
sacred choral composer, has been dubbed "the fuzziest man in show
business," for blurring the boundaries between genres, and for never
sitting still! He has written music for dance,
theater and the church, including Aileytudes, choreographed and
performed in New York City in 2007 by the poet and dancer RiShana
Blake, and incidental music and underscore for a productions of Edward
Albey's Three Tall Women and Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Owen
has also performed extensively with the poet Barry Wallenstein, and
served as Music Director for productions of West Side Story and Phantom
of the Opera. Owen James lives, performs, composes and teaches in |
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Anna Schaum LPC
leads a multifaceted professional career in the performing and healing
arts. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, she has been
a symphony viola player with such conductors as Leonard Bernstein,
Michael Tilson Thomas, and Carlos Kalmar; she has performed with the
improv comedy troupe ComedySportz ("Anna One, Anna Two"); and having
earned her MA in Counseling Psychology from the Pacifica Graduate
Institute, she currently enjoys collaborating with clients in private
practice as a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Psychodrama
Practioner. Bobby McFerrin once told her, "You have the most musically
expressive face I've ever seen." In Playback Theater Anna loves
offering those expressions in service to peoples' stories. www.DramaticChanges.com |
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Jason Ferris
began playing guitar at the age of sixteen. After two years of private
guitar lessons, he taught himself to play the drums and bass guitar.
Jason enjoys all musical styles and has played and performed in many
bands. Through improvisation and experimentation
with sound, Jason found an outlet for his overwhelming imagination.
Using homemade instruments, contact microphones, circuit-bent sound
generators, tape cassette decks and samples, Jason can create audio
soundscapes that range from soft ambiance to jarring noise. Jason’s
improvisational creativity and Playback Theatre are a perfect fit. The
recreation of stories using actors, metaphor, narration, movement and
sound is particularly intriguing to Jason. Many of Jason’s past and
present musical projects and short videos are on his website at www.jasonpferris.com. |
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Wendy Spurgeon (BFA) hails from |
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Rick Tangeman LCSW is
a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice. He works with
individuals as well as couples and specializes in couples sexuality.
Rick enjoys the opportunity to honor people's stories and the healing
that can occur drew him to join the group. http://www.baurassociates.com/therapists/tangeman.asp |








