POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION:
Integrating the Power Of Psychodrama With Positive Psychology
December 7-8, 2019
Saturday 9AM-5:30PM and Sunday 9AM-4PM
Location: Highland, NY
(overnight accommodations are available)
Trainer: Dan Tomasulo, Ph.D.
Positive psychology has articulated the use of positive interventions into a new branch of researched based healing known as positive psychotherapy. Action methods derived from psychodrama and research from narrative psychology and storytelling can extend and enhance the impact of these activities. Discover the intersection of these two disciplines and learn how to put positive psychology into action!
This workshop will introduce students to how action methods can be used to enhance the outcome of positive therapeutic interventions. This combination of training and highly experiential personal work will introduce participants to the untapped resources of well-being that psychodramatic methods are particularly suited to activating. Participants will have the opportunity to practice these new interventions through work on their own issues.
Through demonstration, lecture, full psychodramas and vignettes participants will learn how to activate ‘flow’ events. They will get to practice the use of standard psychodramatic techniques including the empty chair, doubling, role reversal, mirroring, and auxiliary work as well as to increase their understanding how science has informed the use of these methods to express gratitude, compassion, forgiveness and resilience .
In addition we will address the use of resilience perspective when treating trauma and the relevant research in positive psychology that can be used in psychodrama.
Learn how one can:
- Employ resilience techniques psychodramatically
- Integrate elements of positive education into sociodrama
- Implement loving kindness meditation techniques as warm-up for psychodramas on relationship
Participants in the workshop will increase their ability to:
- Identify and Express the Components of Positivity
- Dramatize a Best Possible Self
- Identify Ways to use Sociometry to Assess Positivity within the Group
- Explore Character Strengths in Self and Others
- Utilize Active Constructive Responding
- Activate Flow Experiences
- Conduct a Gratitude Review
- Identify Uses of a Virtual Gratitude Visit
- Learn Three Ways NOT to Respond to Good News
Registration and Fees
$375.
This workshop is now filled. To be placed on our waiting list contact: hvpi@hvpi.net
Dan Tomasulo holds a PhD in psychology, an MFA in writing, and is the first licensed psychologist and psychodramatist to graduate from the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. He is on faculty at New Jersey City University and is an assistant instructor for Martin Seligman, The Father of Positive Psychology, at UPenn for the MAPP program. He has also been a training consultant for the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyer’s College in Wyoming, and developer of the Dare to be Happy experiential workshops for Kripalu (upcoming February 26–28, 2016). He is the Director and Lead teacher for the Open Center’s New York City Positive Psychology Certification. He writes for Psychology Today (more)
Continuing Education Hours
Hudson Valley Psychodrama, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP #6789. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Hudson Valley Psychodrama, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. This course is available for 13 CE hours. Click here for more information.
NYS LICENSED CREATIVE ARTS THERAPISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS AND MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS: In collaboration with the Sociometric Institute, Inc. this course provides 13 hours of continuing education.
The Sociometric Institute is recognized by the NYSED’s State Boards for Social Work and Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0268, licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0096, and licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0046.
This workshop offers 13 training hours towards certification by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.
HVPI is an approved continuing education provider for NYS OASAS.
There is a $25 fee for each NBCC, NYS Licensed Social Work, Mental Health Counseling and Creative Arts Therapy Continuing Education certificate. Certificates for Psychodrama training hours and NYS OASAS are provided free of charge.
For more information regarding Continuing Education hours please contact HVPI.