Workshops on Pychodrama, Storytelling, Playback theatre and Art therapy

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Dear Forum,

Center for Counselling announces a series of workshops for

counsellors and therapists. The workshops are held in Chennai and for more

details please look at the link below:

 http://www.storytellinginstitute.org/workshops.html

 Psychodrama workshop – September 22 to 26(Tue to Sat)

Psychodrama

is a dynamic therapeutic group method created by Dr J L Moreno, which uses the

human imagination and our innate capacity for role-playing to investigate our

lives in a mutually supportive environment.  Through psychodrama we can re-experience the past, affirm

our strengths, try out future alternatives, and change what we choose to do and

be.  Psychodrama draws on the

spontaneous and creative process of the group in order to help each participant

discover satisfying solutions to individual and collective situations.  Herb Propper is based in Vermont, USA.

Storytelling workshops – October 17 to 28

Ruth

Stotter directed a university program in Storytelling for many years.  In Chennai she will give a variety of

performances; and workshops on such topics as Storytelling and Healing (for Counsellors and

Psychologists), Audience-Participation Storytelling, Storytelling

Accompanied by Folding Paper (Origami), Storytelling Accompanied by Making String

Patterns,

and Ways of Helping Children to Compose and Tell Stories.  Ruth Stotter is based in California,

USA.

Playback theatre workshop – November 10 to 14(Tue to Sat)

Playback Theatre is a form of improvisational theatre in which

audience members tell stories from their own lives, and then a team of actors

uses sound, movement, spoken word and other means of theatrical expression to

“play back” essences of the stories. 

Playback Theatre can be used in a variety of settings, both clinical and

non-clinical.  It can be healing

and empowering, and is often used to help develop and build community.  Jen Kristel is based in Vermont, USA.

Art therapy workshop – November 17 to 21(Tue to Sat)

Art

Therapy is not about helping a client to create great works of art. 

Rather it is just about enabling a client to use colors and designs for

self-expression.  What and how a

client creates can give the therapist an excellent window into the client’s

world.  The art-making can be

followed by discussion, in which issues can come up that may not have come up

in “talk therapy” alone.Workshop

topics include:  The theory and

uses of art as a therapeutic tool. 

Emotional aspects of color and form.  Ways to use Art Therapy methods in a variety of contexts,

including: with families, people having psychiatric illnesses, children,

physically challenged people, autistic people, for empowerment of individuals

and groups (including possibly in relation to social action), and simply for

creative development.  Art therapy

from Western and Indian perspectives. 

Leading an Art Therapy session: Ways to Warm up and Cool down; and, how

to decide which exercises to use? 

This training will be primarily experiential, and there will be ample

time for discussion, processing and sharing.For registration please contact:Magdalene Jeyarathnam at magdalene@.../ 9884100135/ 044-42080810

Thank you.

--------Magdalene JeyarathnamDirector - Center For Counselling18 Radhakrishnan Salai, 9th Street,3rd Floor, Mylapore, Chennai 600 004www.centerforcounselling.org

email- magdalene@...telephone - 044- 42080810, mobile - 9884100135