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2010 Core Two Training in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy

with Rebecca Walters MS LMHC LCAT TEP
Judy Swallow MA, LCAT TEP

Core training in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy is an intensive training experience for professionals and students in the fields of mental health, substance abuse and recovery, creative arts therapies, religion, human services, personnel management, nursing and medicine, group facilitation and education. This year-long format creates a community of learners committed to personal and professional growth. It provides a safe place in which to develop spontaneity as a director, auxiliary, protagonist and group member.

Each year special topics such as the use of psychodrama in individual therapy, action methods with children and adolescents, spontaneity training, working with resistance, sociodrama, the use of the body and working with trauma may be offered. There will be many opportunities for student directing. The 2010 Curriculum will include:

Group Building
Warm Ups That Work
Scene Setting
Doubling
Role Theory
Auxillary Work
Working with Trauma
The Tao of Sharing
Sociometry
Social Atom/Diamond of Opposites
Student Directing
Psychodrama in Individual Therapy
Spontaneity Games
The Magic Shop
Closure in Action

Dates:

Feb 18-22
May 20-24
Aug 26-30

at Boughton Place, Highland, NY
(Snow dates will be the May 19, August 25 and August 31st)
We will begin at 10 A.M on Thursday and end Monday at 5:30 PM.

Core training Two provides 120 hours credit towards certification by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. Continuing Education Units provided by this training are accepted towards national credentialing by the National Association of Alcohol and Drug Counselors and are accepted by NYS OASAS, the National Board for Certified Counselors and towards re credentialing as a Certified Group Psychotherapist

Trainings are held at Boughton Place in Highland, NY, home of the original Moreno Psychodrama Stage. Boughton Place is 90 miles from NYC. It is about an hour from Albany, Tarrytown, and Katonah in NY. and a little over an hour from Sharon and Danbury, CT, and from much of Northern New Jersey. It is easily accessible by public transportation and offers overnight accommodations

Pre-requisite: Attendance at one or more HVPI intensives, 70 hours of previous psychodrama training and/or permission of faculty.

Tuition: $2400 if $400 non-refundable deposit is postmarked by December 1, 2009

$2500 if $400 non-refundable deposit is postmarked after December 1, 2009

Contact us for information about paying by MC/Visa or by payment plan

For more info; www.hvpi.net or contact us at 845/255-7502 or hvpi@hvc.rr.com

~Space for 2010 CORE TWO is extremely limited so contact us soon for an application~