January 16-17, 2010

Working with Care and Compassion:
Using Psychodrama with Survivors of Trauma
With Mario Cossa and Sylvia Israel

San Rafael, CA

Format and Goals: The workshop consists of didactic presentation, experiential activity, and discussion/processing as it explores classical psychodrama, role theory, the Therapeutic Spiral Model™ (Hudgins, 2002, 2000), and other action strategies for working with issues of trauma recovery.  An action demonstration of the neurobiology of trauma may also be included.  Participants will learn the safe and appropriate uses of the psychodramatic method in working with trauma including: utilizing intra-psychic role categories of trauma survivors and their applications for treatment planning; building personal, interpersonal, transpersonal, and cultural strengths using action methods; and employing action interventions to contain intense affect and dissociation.

Participants: This workshop is appropriate for professionals working with the effects of trauma (counselors, social workers, therapists, case managers), psychodramatists interested in learning more about this methodology, professionals who have been personally effected by trauma, and those in various roles who work with survivors of trauma and their families.