IMAGINATION AND INTEGRATION:

Creative Psychotherapy With Issues of Loss

A TRAINING  WORKSHOP FOR 

MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Sponsored by Lifestage, Inc.

Thursday March 27, 2008  10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

All proceeds to benefit Time For Teens, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the needs of teens related to bereavement and
loss through education and counseling

How Experiential Methods Help To Heal Grief and Loss

Nicholas Wolff, LCSW, BCD, TEP & Jude Treder-Wolff, LCSW, RMT, CGP

10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

 Breakthrough brain research now demonstrates that we are hard-wired for emotional connection; therefore change which threatens or ends important relationships is deeply destabilizing to mind, body and spirit and renders us vulnerable to a range of psychological and social complications. Psychotherapists and other counseling professionals have long understood that positive, creative experiences - especially when combined with supportive emotional connection - promote the psychological resilience that results in the capacity to evolve through change and loss occurring over the lifespan. Neuroscience now confirms that therapy actually reshapes the brain and strengthens its healthy functioning.

       This training will demonstrate experiential techniques that facilitate restorative mind-body and interpersonal connections that can provide great relief to people working through loss and grief, and provide information about research that integrates neuroscience, clinical psychiatry and creative arts psychotherapy.

Experiential Methods For Treatment of Bereaved Adolescents

Laraine Gordon, LCSW, CTBF, Nicholas Wolff & Jude Treder-Wolff

1:30 - 4 p.m.

     The specific developmental needs of adolescents make grief and loss particularly devastating for their ongoing psychological and emotional health. This workshop will present an integrative model for working with bereaved teens, including experiential techniques for group work with this population as well as a presentation about the structure and process of a bereavement camp for teens held on Shelter Island in August 2007.

This training has been approved for Continuing Education Hours by the:                                                                                             National Board of Certified Counselors,                                                                                    National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors                                          National Registry of  Group Psychotherapists

FEE: $100 payable to Time for Teens

   c/o Laraine Gordon

  42 Post Crossing
            Southampton NY 11968 

To contact Time for Teens call: 631 338 7258

ONLINE REGISTRATION:

  

TRAINING LOCATION: Lifestage, Inc.  496 Smithtown ByPass  Suite 202  Smithtown, NY 11787

For directions to Lifestage, send an e-mail to lifestage_2000@yahoo.com 

Nicholas Wolff, LCSW, BCD, TEP is a Licensed Certified Social Worker, Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work, and Trainer, Educator and Practitioner of Psychodrama who has been in private practice and professional trainer for 30 years. He is Director of Training at Lifestage, providing psychodrama and group psychotherapy certification training, Introduction to Psychodrama for university classes, as well as professional training seminars on a full range of social issues, including small and large group process, social and gender roles in cultural context, family therapy, addiction, racism and trauma. He has served on the Suffolk County Trauma Response Team since 1990, was the Senior Debriefer when the Response Team worked with survivors of the attack on the World Trade Center, and Senior Counselor in assisting the caregivers involved with survivors and rescue workers. Currently he serves as Website Editor of the American Society of Group and Psychotherapy after 10 years as a member of the Executive Council and serving as President from 2005-2007.

Jude Treder-Wolff, LCSW, RMT, CGP is an Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Music Therapist and Certified Group Psychotherapist in full-time private practice, a professional cabaret artist, and writer who has published several academic works on creativity and the process of healing and growth. She provides individual and group psychotherapy, addiction and co-dependency treatment, stress-resilience and creativity training workshops. Specializing in creative arts and experiential therapy, she has trained addiction professionals in a variety of settings, including the University of Buffalo Summer Institute for Addiction Studies, South Oaks Hospital Continuing Education Program, and the YMCA Family Services, and designed and implemented Continuing Education seminars for addiction counselors at Lifestage Inc. She has published in The International Journal of Arts in Psychotherapy Special Issue on Addictions and the Special Issue on HIV/AIDS, Music Therapy Perspectives, Recovery Press, Clinical Social Work News, and the Psychodrama Network News

Laraine Gordon, LCSW, CTBF, is a licensed clinical social worker and Certified Transformation Breathing Facilitator with a private practice for the last 10 years in Southampton, NY. She is also a stage and film actress, and created Time For Teens, Inc., a not for profit organization that was initially implemented to hold an annual four day bereavement camp that is an environment geared toward grieving adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17. Time for Teens is now expanding to provide creative workshops throughout the year for teens going through any variety of loss.