January and February Offerings The Bay Area Moreno Institute
Dedicated to promoting the training, practice and development of Psychodrama, its offspring action methods and related fields & philosophies in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Proudly Presents:
January and February Offerings
CEUs and Training Hours available (see end of notice)
MCEP CEUs pending for January Trauma Workshops
Saturday, February 6, 2010 – Oakland, CA
Living Arts Counseling Center – 4000 Broadway
The Magic of Action Methods in School Settings
With Amna Jaffer and Gina B. Moreno
This workshop will offer a ‘taster’ selection of specific action methods that teachers can easily incorporate into their presentation style to help more students experience success in learning. Role-playing is a natural vehicle for learning; an elaborate form of simulation and rehearsal for life. It is what young children naturally do in early play activities: being mother, father, doctor, negotiator, the storm etc. Making history, science, current events and literature come alive by acting out the components and roles provides participants with a more dynamic and holistic learning experience. These tools make learning fun and accessible to all types of learners so that they take on a ‘magical’ quality.
Join us to experience and discover the power of action methods in classroom education as we demonstrate the following:
• Warm-up activities to build group trust and safety
• Role -playing techniques,
• Sociodramatic vignettes that explore the roles and conflicts of characters in literature and history as well as the issues of inclusion and exclusion.
This will be an opportunity to practice skills and for sharing personal experiences and needs.
• 12:45pm for a 1pm start – 4pm (3 hours of training.)
Venue: Living Arts Counselling Center – 4000 Broadway – Oakland, CA. (at 40th St., walking distance from the MacArthur BART Station)
Cost & Registration: $25 per person. Payment will be at the door but prior registration is required as space is limited. Please contact Gina at (510) 528-4057 or ginabmoreno@gmail.com
February 20 & 21, 2010
Psychodrama w/ Individuals, Couples & Families
With Mario Cossa and Eva Leveton
2390 Mission St. – San Francisco, CA
This two-day training explores a range of psychodramatic and sociometric techniques suitable for working with individuals, couples and families including: psychodrama a deux, double bond role reversal, and working in miniature on the Rosenthal Stage (pictured).
In a safe, confidential, and structured manner this workshop will use both didactic teaching and action methods to explore techniques that will enrich your practice as a psychologist, therapist, counselor, or coach working with a range of client populations. Come prepared to be stimulated, have fun and learn. Previous experience in psychodrama is not required.
o Saturday – 9:15 for a 9:30am start to 5:30pm. (7 hours of training)
o Sunday - 9:45 for a 10am start to 4pm. (5 hours of training)
Venue: Bu Tong Acupuncture Center – Suite 301 – 2390 Mission Street (corner of 20th, 4 blocks from BART 16thor 24th St.) – San Francisco, CA.
Cost & Registration: $220 (Student - $150) Partial scholarships may be available. Please enquire. Register and pay in Full by Feb. 1, and deduct $20 from the cost of a full-fee workshop. To register contact Mario at (510) 234-0827 or cossa@attglobal.net
Continuing Education: Workshops approved for CEUs for MFT, LCSW (BBS947) & CA Board of Registered Nurses (CEP 11733), Sylvia Israel, MFT, RDT/BCT, TEP, Provider. Hours may also be applied toward Drama Therapy and Psychodrama certification. Additional Charge of $25 per 2-day workshop or $5 for afternoon or evening workshop for CEUs. MCEP CEUs for Jan. 15/16/17 trainings pending. Please enquire.
PROVIDERS:
Mario Cossa, MA, RDT/MT, TEP is a psychodramatist, drama therapist, and theatre educator who has conducted workshops and has presented at conferences in the U.S.A., Canada, England, South Africa, Malaysia, Australia andNew Zealand. Mario is a certified trainer in the Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM) for the safe use of psychodrama with survivors of trauma.
Sylvia Israel, MFT (MFC 31245), is a nationally Certified Psychodrama Trainer (TEP), Registered Drama Therapist/Trainer (RDT/BCT) and Founder//Director of IMAGINE! Center for Creativity & Healing and Bay Area Playback Theater. She on the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), and has presented at SpiritRock Meditation Center. Sylvia is a Fellow of the American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP). She maintains a private practice in Marin and San Francisco.
Amna Jaffer, MA, TEP, has been on the faculty of the Moreno Institute West since 2004, training teachers in action methods. She established a Conflict Resolution Project in which psychodramatic techniques are used to tackle conflict, prejudice and intolerance. She is a faculty member of the Dept. of Counselor Education at San Jose StateUniversity.
Eva Leveton has been teaching psychodrama and family therapy both in the Bay Area and internationally for the past 50 years. She has written two widely used texts: A Clinician's Guide to Psychodrama, now in its 3rd edition, andAdolescent Crisis: Approaches in Family Therapy, both published by Springer Publishing Company. She is the editor of a new book, Healing Collective Trauma with Sociodrama and Drama Therapy, which covers work with tribal conflict, social oppression and natural disasters all over the world and will be published in March, 2010. She is a former actress and published poet and is currently teaching psychodrama in the Drama Therapy Program at CIIS, as well as Family Therapy in the Somatics Program at CIIS.
Gina Moreno, MA, has taught for 42 years in Colorado, Canada, New York and California. She has been using sociodrama, role training and sociometric choice techniques with elementary, middle school and college level students. She also works as an independent consultant in training teachers and administrators in the use of role play in resolving student conflicts.
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