Action Methods Consultation Group

Overview:  This monthly consultation group will explore members’ questions and concerns about applying action methods in their settings of choice. We expect to address issues such as:

Ways to introduce and explain the rationale for using action methods in individual and group settings.

Strategies for helping clients and group members become ready for and warm up to psychodrama, sociodrama, and sociometry and related experiential methods.

Considerations for selecting appropriate action methods to advance particular therapeutic and educational goals.

Strategies for working with challenges in applying action methods in individual and/or group settings.

Other concerns raised by consultation group members.

During each two-hour session, group members will have the opportunity to raise questions for consultation by the group leaders and other group members.  We will use action methods to identify, assess, and practice solutions to issues group members are facing in their current practice.

Consultation Group Leaders:

Linda A. Ciotola, M.Ed., CET III, TEP
Catherine D. Nugent, M.S., M.S., LCPC, TEP

Date/Time—Winter/Spring 2012 TBA:

           DAtes: TBA

Location:  Laurel, MD (off Route 198 between I-95 and Route 29)

Fee:  $75 per session.  (Participants can attend one, two, or three sessions.  If you commit to attend all three session and pay at the first meeting, we are offering a discounted rate of $200.) 

To register or for further information, please contact:

Linda at 410-827-8324 or linda.healingbridges@gmail.com
Cathy at 410-746-7251 or cathynugent@comcast.net

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Personal Growth/Self Care
For Healers & Helpers

Restoration, Renewal, and Support
Caregivers need time for self-care and restoration.  This personal growth workshop experience is for individuals in the helping professions who need to build and strengthen self-care resources, to resolve life and relationship dilemmas, and to create a place of trust and safety within oneself.  This workshop provides an opportunity to consciously identify and practice desired life changes, while exploring obstacles that seem to prevent those transformations from occurring in our lives.

Personal Objectives:
* Experiencing strengths and resources
* Learn, practice and internalize emotional self-regulation skills
* Desensitization of secondary post traumatic stress
* Safe expression of feelings
* Anchoring in new life affirming messages to old images and    
   perceptions of self
* Receive peer support
* Experience the healing power of action methods
* Gain action insight into personal and professional issues
* Prevent burnout

WHAT:  These seasonal workshops are for helping professionals who work in fields such as psycho-therapy, counseling, medicine, organizational development, education, and related healing arts (acupuncture, bodywork, energy healing, etc.) Call for details: 410-827-8324

FACILITATOR:  Linda Ciotola, M.Ed., CHES, (ret.),TEP
Linda is a certified psychodramatist, and certified team leader in the Therapeutic Spiral™ method of psychodrama adapted to work with trauma survivors.  She is the co-developer and co-leader of the Bodyworkshops for Therapeutic Spiral International, providing both training and personal growth workshops to heal trauma through body-oriented experiential therapy.  She is a certified and experienced lifestyle counselor and yoga instructor and a certified health education specialist.
Contact us to schedule an ongoing group or workshop:  Call 410-827-8324 between 9:00 & 5:00
Monday - Saturday, or e-mail us at linda.healingbridges@gmail.com

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Psychodrama Training Group:
Theory and Practice of
Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy

*****New training cohort forming in January 2012*****

SPACES ARE LIMITED AND FILLING UP QUICKLY

Linda A. Ciotola, M.Ed., CET III, TEP
Catherine D. Nugent, M.S., M.S., LCPC, TEP

Overview:  This training, intended for professionals and students in the mental health and human services field, provides a foundation in the theory and methods of psychodrama, sociometry, and related group methods.  The training is appropriate for participants at all levels of experience. Opportunities for directing practice with coaching will be provided, as well as time to practice other skills such as auxiliary work and doubling.  Depending on participants’ interest, there may be discussions and demonstrations about how to use action methods in different settings and with populations of interest to students, such as in the treatment of people with addictions, eating disorders, trauma, and other mental health conditions. 

Dates:  The second Wednesday of each month, January through June 2012, from
9:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.:
                                    January 11
                                    February 8
                                    March 14
                                    April 11
                                    May 9
                                    June 13

Location:  Laurel, Maryland (near Route 29 and I-95)

Fee:  $150 per session, with discounted rate of $800 if you pay for the entire series in advance. 

Continuing Education Credit/Psychodrama Training House: For each session, five (5) hours are granted through NBCC, NAADAC, American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, and Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners.

For further information or to register, please contact Cathy or Linda. 

                                    Linda – 410-827-8324 or linda.healingbridges@gmail.com

                                    Cathy – 410-746-7251 or cathynugent@comcast.net

New students will be asked to participate in a brief screening interview to determine suitability for this training program.

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Training Workshops

SAVE the DATE ! March 29, 2012.Baltimore, Md.
Empty Chair Work with Individuals, Couples, and Groups...details coming soon.

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Beyond The Silence & The Fury-Action Methods with Eating Disorders
For Eating Disorder clients, the struggles with food, weight, and appearance reflect the inability to voice feelings and emotional pain. The body becomes the battleground for this war of self expression. Clients become silent and "stuck" in self destructive patterns in an attempt to move the emotional pain out of their bodies.

Learn how action methods and musical expression can move clients forward and towards the discovery of their voice. Learn to use the "Self-Soothing Voice", the "Body Dialogue", and the "Three Faces of Eating Disorders" - three experiential structures for helping clients express feelings and develop empathy for their body "connecting the dots" between food, feelings and relationships.
When: Scheduled upon request

Presenter: Linda Ciotola, M.Ed., CHES, (ret.), TEP
For Registration and other information contact Linda at www.healing-bridges.com

Personal Growth Workshops
Wellness In Action
The Art of Being Well
Health Educator, lifestyle consultant, fitness/yoga instructor and psychodramatist Linda Ciotola joins social worker, singer/songwriter and experiential therapist Kathy Amsden to provide an informative, fun and hands-on experience of putting Wellness Into Action.

This summer’s weekend experience will teach you to nurture, restore and transform your ways of Being for your Well-Being.
For Registration and other information contact Kathy Amsden at:
www.kathyamsden.com.

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Creative Arts for Health and Healing
Introduction to use of creative arts methods to facilitate heath and healing (drama, dance, music, art, literature) - body, mind, heart, and spirit.  Individuals will identify goals for individual well-being and identify obstacles to meeting those goals and experience how creative arts empower change.
For more information and to schedule this workshop contact Linda at linda.healingbridges@gmail.com (410) 827-8324

Introduction to Psychodrama
This course explores the theory, history, methods, and practice of psychodrama and its applications in psychology, theatre, education and more. Through a combination didactic and experiential methods, students will learn role theory, and the “Canon of Creativity”, sociometry as well as the art of “doubling” and role reversal. Applications for using action methods working with individual and groups will be explored. Active class participation required. Learn fun and effective methods for facilitating change in health, psychology, education, business law and more. Also, excellent training for theatre work.

To Register or to schedule this course contact Linda at
linda.healingbridges@gmail.com (410) 827-8324NOTE: For those in the mental health profession, credit in training toward certification by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy is offered. And CEUs for the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors and the National Board of Certified Counselors, and the Maryland Board of Social Work approved. 

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