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Rebecca Walters and Judy Swallow Recipients of the 2005 Collaborator's Award from the American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama Rebecca Walters, M.S., TEP, LCAT (Licensed Creative Arts Therapist), and LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor), is the co-director of the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute. She has utilized psychodrama and expressive arts therapy with individuals and groups of children, adolescents and adults since 1976. She has been at Four Winds Hospital, Katonah, NY since 1985, and is currently Director of Child and Adolescent Psychodrama Services where she runs six psychodrama groups a week with children ages five through twelve and with adolescents. She also supervises the psychodrama internship program at Four Winds. Rebecca was an elected member of the Executive Council of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, an organization in which she is a Fellow. She is certified as a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. She has a private practice in both New Paltz and Katonah, NY and is known for her warmth, sensitivity and humor.
Judy Swallow, MA, TEP, LCAT (Licensed Creative Arts Therapist), Co-director of HVPI, is a Senior Psychodramatist at Four Winds Hospital in Katonah, N.Y. where she has worked with inpatient and outpatient adults including the dually diagnosed since 1986. Judy is a certified family therapist and Rubenfeld Synergy Trainer. She is Certified as a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. She has had a private practice in Westchester and the Hudson Valley for over twenty five years. Judy is the past Chairperson of the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy and is a Fellow of the American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. She is a founding member of Playback Theater and the director of Community Playback Theater in Highland, NY.

Faculty

Regina Peterson

Regina Peterson, MSC, LCSW CP PAT (Practitioner as Trainer) is a psychodramatist at St. Cabrini's Home in West Park, a residential school for adolescent girls. She has an undergraduate degree in art, and actively incorporates her interest in art and creativity in her work with the young women at West Park, Her work at Cabrini's also includes integrating DBT as part of milieu therapy. Regina's previous experience includes working as a social worker at hospitals and nursing homes, as well as being the director of the undergraduate social work program at Cabrini College in Pennsylvania. During 2005, Regina worked extensively with the Red Cross and Department of Social Services to service the needs of the April flood victims in Ulster County.

Bill Coleman

Bill Coleman, LMSW TEP, has been a Trauma Therapist at Sierra Tucson since April 2007. He has recently instituted a new model of diagramming defensive strategies for trauma treatment to help trauma sufferers bring into focus what happened to them and how they have coped. He is a founding director of La Jornada Institute in Arizona and New Mexico. Before moving to the Southwest, Bill was a staff psychodramatist at Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital, Westchester County, NY where he worked with adolescents and adults, including running groups with the dually diagnosed MICA population. He also developed and ran the psychodrama program at Freedom Institute, an outpatient substance abuse facility in New York City. Bill created and taught the HVPI "Psychodrama with the Chemical Dependent" curriculum for Daytop Village. He has also created many psychodramatic action structures for substance abuse treatment. Bill was an adjunct professor at Russell Sage College, where he wrote and taught courses in Theater Therapy. A graduate of Fordham University Graduate School of Social Work, Bill lived in New York City for 30 years before coming to Tucson. Bill also had earlier careers in business and served as a Captain in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.

Guest Faculty

Ann Hale

Ann E. Hale, M.A., TEP studied with J.L. and Zerka Moreno, graduated from the Moreno Institute and edited the student's edition of Who Shall Survive? (1995) Ann founded the Toronto Centre, Playback Theater Northwest (Seattle) and the Blue Ridge Human Relations Training Institute (Roanoke, VA). She currently is revising her book Conducting Clinical Sociometric Explorations and the accompanying CD ROM of sociometric devices. Ann resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Roanoke, VA and teaches drawing and painting. Ann is a past president of the ASGPP. She currently directs the International Sociometry Training Network (www.sociometry.net) and is involved in writing, exhibiting paintings and supervision of psychodramatists

Susan Aaron

Susan Aaron is the founder of Psychodramatic Bodywork®. For 15 years Susan's workshops and training have transformed people across Canada and the United States, teaching them about the relationship between the body and the healing journey. She consults and conducts workshops for agencies and organizations internationally. Susan is a Canadian Director of Psychodrama, a Psychotherapist, a Registered Massage Therapist and a clinical member of the Ontario Society of Psychotherapists (OSP).

Dorothy Baldwin Satten, Ph.D, Mort Satten, Ph.D.

Dorothy Baldwin Satten, Ph.D

Dorothy is Founder and Director of Westwood Institute. She has served on the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy and is a Certified Trainer, Educator, Practitioner (TEP). She is a Fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, and is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Dorothy conducts training in focused and effective action methods for mental health, government, religious and social service agencies. Dorothy was the plenary speaker at the ASGPP Conference in Santa Fe, May 2003. Click here to visit the Westwood Institute.

Mort Satten, Ph.D.

Mort is Associate Director of Westwood Institute and a psychodramatist trained at the Moreno Institute. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. He teaches graduate level courses in psychodrama and specializes in 12-step recovery programs for people with addictive behaviors.. Mort is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.

Zerka Moreno

Zerka Moreno, with her husband Dr. J.L. Moreno, was the creator and developer of today's methods of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. Zerka Moreno is especially identified by her teaching of the classic model of psychodrama. She is the oldest living representative of Moreno’s ideas and has brought his message around the globe.

Liz White, MS TEP

A former Life Skills coach and trainer with the YWCA, Liz is certified as a Trainer, Educator, Practitioner by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy, on which she has also served as an elected member.

For twenty-five years, Liz has pioneered in psychodrama training, first in Toronto and now in a new Centre in Saskatchewan. In addition to her psychotherapy practice in Toronto, she is highly regarded internationally as a lively and seasoned trainer, consultant and educator.

Liz has been in independent practice for thirty years

Jonathan Fox

Jonathan Fox, MA, TEP is a Fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama and was winner of the Innovator's Award of the ASGPP. He was keynote speaker at the Society's annual meeting in 2006. The founder of playback theatre, he has practiced in many different cultural contexts. Jonathan is also the director of the School of Playback Theater which attracts students from all over the world every summer. He also recently served as the Co-director, Brandeis International Program, Recasting Reconciliation
through the Arts and Culture, Brandeis University.

Jonathan is author and/or editor of numerous books and articles on Playback Theater and Psychodrama, including: The Essential Moreno:Writings on Psychodrama, Group Method, and Spontaneity (1987); Acts of Service: Spontaneity, Commitment, Tradition in the Nonscripted Theatre (1994); Gathering Voices: Essays on Playback Theatre (1999), and a chapter on playback theatre in Africa for the forthcoming book, Compendium of Applied Theatre. His books and articles have been translated into many languages including German, Japanese, and Bulgarian.

Jonathan is an internationally renowned trainer and within the last year has taught at New York University, University of Windsor (Canada), and Manhattanville College, as well as institutes in Finland, Japan, Germany, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands. He is also a sought after keynote speaker.

Donna Little

Donna Little, M.S.W., TEP has been a psychodrama trainer for twenty-eight years and completed training in systemic family constellation with Heinz Stark through Healing Heart and Soul, LLC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She resides in Toronto, Ontario, where she is a psychodrama trainer with the Toronto Centre for Psychodrama and Sociometry. Donna is vice-chairperson of the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. She is also co-author with Ann Hale of a monograph entitled Sociometric Processing of Action Events (2004) The joy she has in her role of grandparent is reflected in her writing and poetry and the work with trainees and clients.