Omega Theater & Parkside Arts and Health

Associates

June 13-22, 2014 - 10-day Intensive – Boston MA

Welcome to our ‘Theater, Therapy & the Arts’, 10-day exploration into the intricate relationship between growth, change, human development and transformation. The following courses can be taken as a complete 10-day intensive or separately. They are designed for individuals who would like to learn more about Psychodrama and Drama Therapy and the application of these action methods in mental/behavioral health, education, applied theater arts and community settings. These courses are also part of our Omega Theater Drama Therapy Certificate Program. For individuals studying to become registered drama therapists these may be applied towards 6 credits of alternate track training.

Theater, Therapy & the Arts: a 10-day Summer Intensive (includes all courses listed below)

June 13 – 22, 2014Saphira Linden, Phillip Speiser, David Read Johnson, Daniel J. Wiener, Jami Osborne, Iris Grant and Christopher Carboni

Psychodrama & Creative Arts Therapy: an Integrative Approach - June 13-15 Phillip Speiser, PhD, RDT/BCT, Psychodramatist with Saphira Linden, MA, TEP, RDT/BCT

Improvisation in Drama Therapy - June 16David Read Johnson, Ph.D, RDT-BCT

Rehearsals for Growth: a Drama Therapy of Relationships Approach - June 17Daniel J. Wiener, Ph.D, RDT/BCT & Jami Osborne, MA, RDT-BCT and RfG-Certified Trainer

Boal & Moreno: Integrating Theater & Therapy - June 18Phillip Speiser, PhD, RDT/BCT, Psychodramatist

Transformational Theater using the Creative Arts & Improvisation IntensiveJune 19Saphira Linden, MA, TEP, RDT/BCT with Iris Anne Grant, MA

Transformational Theater Using the Creative Arts & Improvisation - June 19-22Saphira Linden, MA, TEP,

RDT/BCT with Phillip Speiser, Iris Anne Grant & Chris Carboni

* * * * * * * Theater, Therapy & the Arts: a 10-day Summer Intensive (includes all courses listed below)June 13 – 22, 2014Saphira Linden, Phillip Speiser, David Read Johnson, Daniel J. Wiener, Jami Osborne, Iris Grant and Christopher Carboni

This 10-day summer intensive includes all of the courses listed below and will explore the relationship between drama therapy, psychodrama, creative arts therapies, theater, creative drama and improvisation. Leaders in the field will present the various themes and explore these through discussion, readings and experiential activities. The goal is to deepen our understanding of how theater arts are used as healing and transformative agents and to present practical applications that can be used in professional practices within counseling, education, applied theater practices and community/social change. This intensive is appropriate for the beginner practitioner as well as those that are using an art/s form in their practice and wish to gain a deeper understanding and application towards this practice. No prior

experience with the arts is necessary to participate in these courses. The courses are also open to students enrolled in drama therapy alternate track programs and are designed to meet the standards of the North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA) as an 'Alternative Training' program that leads towards a credential as an RDT-Registered Drama Therapist. The 10-day intensive is equivalent to 6 credits and falls under the category of Creative Arts Therapy (3 credits) & Improvisation (3 credits). Cost: Reduced fee for all 10 days- $1,200 before June 6; $1,350 after June 6

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Psychodrama & Creative Arts Therapy: an Integrative Approach June 13 - 15 Instructor: Phillip Speiser, Ph.D, RDT/BCT, Psychodramatist

with Saphira Linden, MA, TEP, RDT/BCT Many mental health practitioners and community workers use some form of arts expression in their work. Integration of these modalities is a longer process and commitment towards understanding how creativity and creative process is core towards facilitating healing and change. Through readings,

discussion, and experiential activities participants will gain a deeper understanding of a wide range of creative arts modalities and therapeutic approaches. Visual art, poetry, storytelling, dance/movement, music will be explored and woven intermodally with drama therapy & psychodrama. Appropriateness of application of modalities and methods for various populations will be discussed throughout the course. This course is appropriate for the beginner practitioner as well as those that are using an art/s form in their practice and wish to gain a deeper understanding and application towards this practice. No prior experience with the arts is necessary to participate in this course.

Instructor: Phillip Speiser, PhD, REAT, RDT/BCT, Psychodramatist is co-leader of the Omega Drama Therapy Certificate Program and Supervisor of Arts Therapy at Whittier Street Health Center, Boston. He has worked with the integration of arts therapies for over thirty years as a clinician, supervisor and teacher. He was co-chair/founder of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. Guest Instructor: Saphira Linden, MA, TEP, RDT/BCT, Founder & Director of The Omega Theater & Co-leader of Omega Transpersonal Drama Therapy Certificate Program, Boston. Ms. Linden is certified as a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group

Psychotherapy with over 40 years experience working as a therapist, educator and artist. Cost: $380 before June 6; $425 after June 6

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Improvisation in Drama TherapyJune 16David Read Johnson, Ph.D, RDT/BCT

This course will review the history of the field of drama therapy from the point of view of the role of improvisation. David will describe and demonstrate experientially the improvisational method of Developmental Transformations and lead participants through their own process of developing improvisational self-revelatory pieces in the moment.

Instructor: David Read Johnson, Ph.D, RDT/BCT is Director, Institute for Developmental Transformations; Co-Director, Post Traumatic Stress Center, New Haven, CT; Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine; former president of NADTA and former editor-in-chief of the Arts in Psychotherapy. David is a pioneer in the field of drama therapy.

Cost: $150 before June 6; $175

after June 6

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Rehearsals! for Growth: a Drama Therapy of Relationships ApproachJune 17, 2014Daniel J. Wiener, Ph.D, RDT/BCT &Jami Osborne, MA, RDT-BCT and RfG-Certified Trainer

Developed by Dan Wiener in 1984 and taught around the world, Rehearsals! for Growth™ (RfG) is a drama therapy of relationships which uses techniques from theater improvisation to achieve individual and interpersonal growth. RfG facilitates change by playfully exploring alternative roles through dramatic enactment, providing vivid, immediate experiences that reach populations, particularly children, who do not respond fully to talk-only therapies. This all-day workshop is available to beginners and RfG trainees at all levels of prior training and earns 8 hours toward the full 60-hr. Rehearsals for Growth Certificate Program (RfG-CP).

Instructors: Daniel J. Wiener, Ph.D, RDT/BCT, originator of RfG.

Dan is Professor in the Counselor Education and Family Therapy Department at Central Connecticut State University, licensed both as a psychologist and Marriage and Family Therapist, conducting private practice since 1976. He has written several books, chapters and articles on the application of action methods in psychotherapy.

Jami Osborne, MA, RDT-BCT and Rehearsals! for Growth Certified Clinician.  Jami works in a community mental health clinic south of Boston, MA and is a faculty member of the Omega Theater Transpersonal Drama Therapy Training program.

Cost: $140 before June 6; $165 after June 6

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Boal & Moreno: Integrating Theater, Therapy & Social ChangeJune 18 Instructor: Phillip Speiser, Ph.D, RDT/BCT, Psychodramatist

Augusto Boal was a great innovator and pioneer in the use of theater as a tool to overcome oppression and foster social change. Jacob L. Moreno was a great innovator and pioneer in the use of improvisation and role play as a tool to foster personal growth, group therapy and

human development. Together the two have left us with powerful theater tools that are today applied to counseling, education and community change. This course will present practical applications from Image Theater, Theater of the Oppressed and Psychodrama and demonstrate how participants can integrate these tools into their professional and personal lives. A continuum of expression from personal-to-societal life issues will be presented and our goal will be to find points of integration between the two.

Instructor: Phillip Speiser, PhD, RDT/BCT, Psychodramatist. Phil studied with the Moreno’s in Beacon NY during the 1970’s and with Augusto Boal in the 1980’s. He is co-leader of the Omega Drama Therapy Certificate Program and Supervisor of Arts Therapy at Whittier Street Health Center, Boston.

Cost: $140 before June 6; $165 after June 6

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Transformational Theater Using the Creative Arts & Improvisation – one-day intensiveSaphira Linden, MA, TEP, RDT/BCT with Iris Grant, MA

June 19, 2014

This course is intended as an intensive theater-therapy introduction to the Transformational Theater process- see full course description below. Participants will learn to identify challenging and restricted life-patterns and how to begin a process of transformation through the use of various theater methods that are included in the Transformational Theater model.

Cost: $140 before June 6; $165 after June 6

Transformational Theater using the Creative Arts & ImprovisationSaphira Linden, MA, TEP, RDT/BCT with Phillip Speiser; Iris Grant; Christopher CarboniJune 19-22, 2014

Transformational Theater is a healing model designed to help both clients and audiences identify with their essential healthy core, sometimes referred to as soul-self, while working to be freed from their wounded and restricted self-images. Carl Jung said that the mental health of a community is based on peoples' ability to tell their stories. The Transformational Theater process supports this need. This process makes it possible to transform these earlier wounded patterns into the creation of a new transformative

story, supporting growth and health. Participants will work with creative arts therapy and improvisation modalities to create a short theater piece that expresses each participant's healing journey. Drawing on ancient traditions of healing through ritual theater, we will take advantage of the overlap between the processes of performance and performance-making and those of self-exploration, real life relationships, investigation of meaning and envisioning a desired transformation. No theater experience is necessary to take this training. Participants will support each other in the creation of their pieces. Everyone will work with different art forms and will be involved in exploring role playing, script development out of improvisation, music, dance, poetry, masks, costumes etc. This process connects us with our creative selves and a sense of new possibilities.

Instructor: Saphira Linden, MA, TEP, RDT/BCT, LCAT, Founder & Director of The Omega Theater & Co-leader of Omega Transpersonal Drama Therapy Certificate Program, Boston. Ms. Linden is certified as a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy with over 40 years experience working as a therapist, educator and artist.

Guest Instructors: Phillip Speiser; co-leader of the Omega Drama Therapy Certificate Program and Supervisor of Arts Therapy at

Whittier Street Health Center, Boston.

Iris Anne Grant, MA, is a painter whose work focuses on sacred themes and luminosity. She has taught at Lesley University for over twenty-five years, where she specialized in designing art courses for adult students.

Christopher Carboni, musician

Cost: $520 before June 6; $560 after June 6

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Student Reduced Tuition - we encourage students enrolled at colleges and universities to join our trainings. We offer a 10% reduction for individuals and 15% for groups of 3 and more.

Work/study scholarships and a limited amount of tuition scholarships are available. For information about this please visit our website and ‘Contact Us’ directly.

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Omega Transpersonal Drama Therapy Certificate

Program

This low residency ‘distance learning’ training integrates drama therapy, psychodrama, and transpersonal psychology. It is designed to meet the standards of the North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA) as an 'Alternative Training' program that leads towards a credential as an RDT-Registered Drama Therapist.

Enroll in any course listed above as an introduction to the program.Now accepting applications for our new training program.Reduced tuition for each course thanks to our new scholarship fund.Applications for individual scholarships now being accepted.Open enrollment- participants may join at any time during the year!

For a full description of this program please visit our website www.omegatheater.org

For more information and registration contact:

Omega Theater at 617-522-8300 or email: info@omegatheater.orgOmega Transpersonal Drama Therapy Certificate Program

On the web: http://www.omegatheater.org/

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