Therapist Training

Our next workshop: TBD

Play-acting, pretend, improvisation, creative performance is fun. And it is also serious business. We all might benefit greatly by integrating these activities in our lives. Moreover, performance has much to teach us about the foundations of growth, learning, rewiring, and development. Many are seeing performance as key to the psychology of becoming. 

In the last decade there has been an emergence of performance and improvisational-based approaches topsychotherapy and human development. Theorists from many fields have been exploring the far-reaching work of developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky and the way his work challenges the notion of cognition as fundamental to transformation and change, moving instead towards the performing arts.

This workshop will explore these issues, particularly the significance of creative imitation, in a number of fun and innovative ways including through performed discussion and experiential improvisation.  Join therapist Murray Dabby LCSW and theatre professional Lesly Fredman for a workshop exploring the creative work of these practitioners. Murray and Lesly will also share their approaches as therapist, creativity coach, and performers, as well as the challenges they have experienced and new knowledge they have gained of the relationship of performance to personal power from their collaboration in Curtain Up! Anxiety Down!, a twelve-week class series for people with social anxiety.

Participants will: learn about theoretical foundations to performance theory and applications to therapy, be able to view various applications of  improvisation and performance in work with diverse populations and be able to learn several techniques for use in their practice.

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