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2008-09 Core Training in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy

with Rebecca Walters MS TEP and Judy Swallow MA 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.

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 will be offered. There will be many opportunities for student directing.

Core training meets Friday through Sunday:

Oct 17-19
Nov 21-23
Dec 12-14
Feb 6-8
March 6-8
April 24-26

All trainings begin at 8:45 AM and end around 5:30 PM each day.

Core training provides 130 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, the National Board for Certified Counselors and towards re credentialing as a Certified Group Psychotherapists

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: $2600 if $500 non-refundable deposit is postmarked by July 1, 2008
$2700 if $500 non-refundable deposit is postmarked after July 1, 2008

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 2008-09 CORE is extremely limited so contact us soon for an application~