Spring / Summer 2024 Semester Schedule

Using Drama Therapy with People Suffering from Addictions and their Families (7 hours/CE’s)

Date: April 28

Time: 10:30 to 6:00pm ( PST)

Cost: $169

Facilitator: Alexis Maron, MA, RDT-BCT, RAD

Zoom

Clients dealing with addiction disorders rarely go through their addiction journey truly alone.  They often have friends/family members who have been a part of both their active use/behaviors and their recovery, and this may lead to feelings of shame, guilt, and regret for everyone involved.  This experiential workshop helps therapists understand the use of drama therapy tools with individuals and groups learning how to address the impact of addiction on clients and their core and chosen families.  Using Robert Landy’s drama therapeutic Role Theory, participants will explore how family “roles” can work towards recovery and preparation of relationships, as well as helping to take ownership of their part in the addiction process. Participants will have the opportunity to use projective techniques and embodiment to enhance their clinical skills and will also explore the unique challenges of working in systems with potentially resistant clients and their families.  In addition, participants will explore these exercises from both the therapist and the client’s perspective.

 

Narradrama Innovative and Advanced Techniques with Various Populations (14 CE’s)

Instructor: Pam Dunne

Dates: Time: May 3, 10:30 am to 6:00 pm (PST)

TBA (1 hour arranged)

Cost: $169

Zoom/In Person

Participants will learn and practice specific interventions founded in re-authoring and restorying processes in Narradrama. They will explore storymaps, preferred role monologues, sensory rich environments, action metaphors, enchanted tools and objects, soundscapes, advanced externalizationtechniques, multi- level stories and double listening in clinical and educational settings. No previous experience necessary.

 

Narradrama and Drama Therapy Techniques with ADHD (7hrs. CEs)

Instructor: Kamran Afary, Ph.D, RDT, NT

Dates: May 5 th and 12 th

Time: 9:30 to 1:00 (PST)

TBA (1 hour arranged)

Cost: $169

Zoom/In Person

Explore creative ways of using drama, creative arts therapies and Narradrama with children and adults with ADHD. The course will cover relevant theories and applications to educational and clinical populations and hands on action techniques with masks, embodiment, transformational stories, and active

journaling. Additionally, the course covers coaching techniques with mind maps for time management and organization.

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Narradrama and Creative Arts Techniques with Anxiety (7 CEs)

Instructor: Pam Paulson (MFT, (RDT,NT)

Dates: (Saturdays) July 13 and August 3

Time: 9:00 am to 12:30 pm PST

Cost: $169

Teacher: Pam Paulson, MA, LMFT, RDT, NT

TBA (1 hour arranged)

Zoom/In Person

Anxiety has become a common experience for so many of us due to the on-going impact of the pandemic, social unrest, injustice, environmental concerns, gun violence, wars, isolation, illness, distrust, fears of the future and general uncertainty about our lives and those we care about. Narradrama and Creative Arts Techniques offer tools to help us honor our fears and anxieties as well as find our way back into our bodies, our hearts, calming and refocusing our minds, reframing our stories, and finding meaning, authenticity and connection. One of my favorite quotes from the film Shawshank Redemption is “Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free”. In this workshop we will use Creative Arts Techniques through the Narradrama lens to explore anxiety, it’s impact and, reduce it’s debilitating effects by inviting, identifying and drawing on our inner

capacities.

 

Ethics, Intersectionality and Research (7hrs./CEs)

Instructor: Kamran Afary (Ph.D, RDT)

Dates: July 14 and 21

Time: 9:00 am to 12:30 pm PST

Cost: $169

TBA (1 hour arranged)

Zoom/In Person

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Participants will learn about the history and current practices of drama therapy with vulnerable populations, focusing on research ethics. The workshop will cover ethical guidelines for research with vulnerable populations, requirements for conducting research with human subjects, necessary permissions, and the use of disclosure forms. Understanding procedures involving IRB’s as well as guidelines to attending to intersectional identities in therapeutic and educational encounters will be explored. APA and NADTA code of Ethics, will be reviewed. In connection with research, participants will learn about the uniqueness of narrative reauthoring, Narradrama research, and the use of narrative questions which will be useful in assessing new identities, and studying of other relevant variables.

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Counts toward CHED requirements for NADTA
Counts toward Ethics requirements for AT students
 

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Research and Assessment in Drama Therapy (Core class) (3 units)

Dates/Times: 

5-11  (Saturday):  9:30 am to 3:30 pm PST, 12:30 pm to 6:30 pm EST
6- 9 (Sunday) 9:30 am to 3:30 pm PST, 12:30 pm to 6:30 pm EST
6-14 ( Friday) 11:00 am to 2:00 pm PST, 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm EST
6-21-(Friday) 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm (PST), 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm EST
6-30  Sunday) 9:30 am to 3:30 pm PST, 12:30 pm to 6:30 pm EST
7-12- Friday- 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PST, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm- EST
7-6 (Saturday) 9:30 am to 3:30 pm PST, 12:30 to 6:00 EST
7-20 (Saturday) 9:30 am to 3:30 pm PST, 12:30 to 6:00 EST

 
10 TBA Hours (films and extra hours assessments)

Cost $899

Zoom

Participants will examine current research practices, both practice and evidenced based. They will review selected drama therapy research papers and identify an area of interest to explore further. Participants will also explore relevant drama therapy and creative arts assessment measures such as the Role Playing Test, Six Piece Story Making, Tell a Story, Role Profiles, EPR and Six Keys Model. The course will conclude with a research paper or proposed outline for a Pilot Study.’ In classes marked Zoom/In person- if there are enough local participants, then the class has the option to be hybrid.

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Drama Therapy Abroad Program in Edinburgh- August 1 through 7. For more

information contact: dramatherapyabroad@gmail.com

 

To Register:  https://form.jotform.com/240606677947166