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Friday April 16^th,2010

Therapy in the Dramatic Mirror

The Fascinating Process of Evidenced Based Creative Arts Therapy

Presenters: Playback Theatre *

Lakewood Center for the Arts · 368 S. State Street · Lake Oswego, OR 97034

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 Portland, Oregon, includes skilled group facilitators/clinicians, actors, dancers, singers, musicians. We are a professional theater troupe and enjoy playing for a variety of audiences indifferent venues. We value creativity and authenticity in human interactions, and are committed to the power of the personal story in building bridges between people and enhancing a sense of interconnectedness and community. See their biographies below.

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 New York. Playback Theater Company of Portland, Oregon,is one of several Playback Companies worldwide. This form of theater is currently being performed on seven continents inmore than 50 countries.

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

	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 South Africa, and having travelled and worked extensively with different healing practices from around the world, Jackie has a deep appreciation of both traditional and modern healing practices, and enjoys the open forum and sense of interconnection achieved through Playback Theater. More can be found about Jackie at www.jackieparis.net

	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

	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 Portland, OR with his partner and their children. www.owenjamesmusic.com

	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

	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.

	Wendy Spurgeon (BFA) hails from Ashland, OR, home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where she worked as part of the Acting Company for 2 years. She also worked as Actor, Director, Choreographer, and Performing Arts Teacher for many theatres in the Rogue Valley including Oregon StageWorks, Camelot Theatre Company, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Rogue Music Theatre, Rogue Opera, and the Oregon Conservatory of Performing Arts. Here in Portland, Wendy has recently directed for PCC Sylvania, is teaching with StageCoach Theatre School in Lake Oswego, and has an upcoming production with Mt. Hood Repertory Theatre. She is excited about stretching her improv skills with Playback Theatre, and collaborating to provide a valuable service to the Portland Community!

	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