Chicago Center for Psychodrama presents at the 2024 Expressive Therapies Summit MIDWEST!
Enhancing Group Cohesion Using Action Methods: An Introduction for Counselors & Psychotherapists
Facilitator: Mallory Primm, PSYD, PAT
Saturday Workshop: 4/27/24, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM
Group cohesion is an essential ingredient for effective group psychotherapy in virtually any clinical setting. For clinicians facilitating expressive arts or traditional talk therapy groups, action methods can enhance their ability to aid group members in building interpersonal connections and sense of belongingness. The participants of this 3-hour workshop will have the opportunity to explore interventions from sociometry, psychodrama, and sociodrama that will enliven and deepen their group therapy work for themselves and their group members. All helping professionals are invited. No previous psychodrama experience necessary.
Action Techniques for Transforming the Treatment of Eating Disorders: Embodied Healing
Facilitators: Kate Merkle MPH, RDN, LCSW, PAT & Brittany Lakin-Starr, PhD, TEP
Sunday Workshop: 4/28/24, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM
Our relationship with food is complicated by the messages and behaviors we learn from our families, culture, and society. People who struggle with an eating disorder have developed distorted beliefs about food and their bodies. Come learn how embodied techniques such as step-in-circle, spectrogram, and empty chair can be used in the effective treatment for eating disorder recovery when traditional approaches fall short. Enhance your clinical toolbox to help clients explore their relationships with food and their bodies, and challenge the unhelpful messages they tell themselves. Given the highly experiential nature of this workshop, which will draw upon participants’ own material, please be advised that a number of potentially strong feelings may emerge during this workshop, including joy, sadness, and anger.
Using Art Therapy Techniques as a Warm-Up for Psychodrama Sessions
Facilitator: Sue Parcell ATR-BC, CP, LCPC
Sunday Workshop: 4/28/24, 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Combining or alternating between different expressive arts modalities can significantly enhance the power of therapeutic session, whether with individual or group therapy. As psychodrama is a 3-part process, namely warm-up, action, and sharing, the warm-up phase is essential to a powerful session, since it increases the engagement and involvement of the participants. For this reason, using art making directives can function as a highly effective warmup for psychodramatic action. Drawing and other forms of image making as a warm-up process prior to a psychodrama group in particular can elicit the kinds of personal images, reflections, and issues that facilitate the kind of drama to be put into action according to the needs of the group. Join us for this 90-minute workshop to learn about multidisciplinary approach that can be used in any number of clinical situations with a wide variety of clients.
