CHILDWORK/CHILD PLAY:

Action Methods with Children's Groups:
Psychodrama, Sociodrama and Playback Theater

Trainer: Rebecca Walters

OCTOBER 23-25, 2008
Thursday 6 P.M.-9 P.M., Friday and Saturday 9 A.M. - 5 P.M.
Location: NAPLES FLORIDA
overnight accommodations are available

Psychodrama is a natural and powerful method for helping troubled, abused and traumatized children tell their stories, safely express strong feelings and try out new behaviors and roles. This professional training will offer participants the opportunity to learn adaptations of the psychodramatic method that work especially well with groups of children ages seven though twelve. Many of these structures can be adapted to work with individuals and families.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN!

Participants will explore and experience structures that allow for the safe acting out of children's hopes, fears and difficulties through the use of:

The use of group ritual and structures for safety and containment will be demonstrated.

Ways to address the difficulties inherent in using psychodrama with children will be discussed.

FEE
$300 IF REGISTRATION AND FEE ARE POSTMARKED BY SEPT 15, $350 AFTER.

REFUND POLICY
4 weeks notice: 100% refund
2 weeks notice: 50% credit towards future HVPI trainings

~Space is limited...register early to avoid being closed out~

CEUS

Continuing education units provided by this training are accepted by National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC), National Board of Certified Counselors and towards recertification requirements for the National Registry of Group Psychotherapist as well as 16 hours towards certification by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy.

To Register: Please send a check made out to OUTSIDE THE BOX STUDIO to the address below. Include your name, phone number, email address and postal address.

Mail to: OUTSIDE THE BOX STUDIO 6230 Shirley Street, Suite 104, Naples, Florida 34109, Attn: Lulu Carter

Payment plans may be arranged upon request. It is now possible to pay with a major credit card.

Contact Lulu Carter at Outside The Box Studio for more information.
EMAIL: lulu@outsidethebox-studio.com
Call 239.272.6152
or visit http://www.outsidethebox-studio.com/home.html

TRAINER BIO

Rebecca Walters,M.S., TEP*, LMHC, LCAT is the founder and co-director of the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute in New Paltz, NY since 1989. She is the Director of Adolescent and Child Psychodrama Services at Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital in Westchster, NY, where she currently runs six psychodrama groups a week with children ages five through eight, nine through twelve, eleven through fourteen and thirteen through seventeen. She is also the director of the psychodrama internship program at Four Winds. Rebecca has run psychodrama groups with children, adolescents and adults since 1976.

Rebecca Walters is a Fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, and along with Judy Swallow was the recipient of the ASGPP 2005 Collaborators Award for her work in the fields of psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy. She is certified as a *Trainer, Educator and Practitioner by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. She is licensed in NYS as a Creative Arts Therapist and as a Mental Health Counselor.

As a trainer she is known for her warmth, sensitivity, humor and clarity.