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Background: For those afflicted with eating disorders, actions speak louder than words. The disorder becomes friend and foe, enemy and life boat. In this workshop, we show how to identify the roles that maintain the eating order and the new roles that can be established to promote and maintain recovery.
For those afflicted with eating disorders, actions speak louder than words. The disorder becomes friend and foe, enemy and life boat. Food becomes the primary relationship, serving many functions such as comforting, numbing, empowering, punishing or surviving.
Awareness, which is the basis of change, does not create change. Knowing about the pattern of unhealthy behaviors does not stop automatic behaviors, appearing beyond our conscious control. In the past two decades, researchers have learned a great deal of new information about the human brain’s development and functioning and why insight and awareness is not enough.
Psychodrama and action methods offer powerful ways to concretize the relationship between the person and the eating pattern as well as the internal and external struggles of eating disorder clients. With action methods, people bring their inner worlds to the stage and find words that are hidden behind the binge eating, purging and restricting, rehearse making conscious choices for the developing self, address obstacles to problem-solving and gain opportunities to enliven creativity while accessing strengths.
In this workshop, we will demonstrate how action methods are particularly useful in addressing the clinical challenges and developmental milestones of eating disorders recovery. The sociometric standards of observing group relationships and connections and the psychodramatic techniques of soliloquy, doubling, mirroring, concretization, role reversal and others offer an immense range of ways to investigate and heal.
The presenter will give sufficient time for didactic presentation, discussion, role play and experiential work, questions and wrap-up. Specific segments of the program will include:
- Introductions
- Introductions by participants in action
- Discussion of three segments of psychodrama session: warm up, action, sharing
- Introduction of sociometric activities: spectrograms and step-in sociometry.
- Demonstration of unhealthy roles of eating disorders
- Demonstration of healthy roles of eating disorders
- Opportunity for group to experiment, role play and self direct in large group or small subgroups
- Discussion and sharing.
For those afflicted with eating disorders, actions speak louder than words. The disorder becomes friend and foe, enemy and life boat. Food becomes the primary relationship, serving many functions such as comforting, numbing, empowering, punishing or surviving.
Awareness, which is the basis of change, does not create change. Knowing about the pattern of unhealthy behaviors does not stop automatic behaviors, appearing beyond our conscious control. In the past two decades, researchers have learned a great deal of new information about the human brain’s development and functioning and why insight and awareness is not enough.
Psychodrama and action methods offer powerful ways to concretize the relationship between the person and the eating pattern as well as the internal and external struggles of eating disorder clients. With action methods, people bring their inner worlds to the stage and find words that are hidden behind the binge eating, purging and restricting, rehearse making conscious choices for the developing self, address obstacles to problem-solving and gain opportunities to enliven creativity while accessing strengths.
In this workshop, we will demonstrate how action methods are particularly useful in addressing the clinical challenges and developmental milestones of eating disorders recovery. The sociometric standards of observing group relationships and connections and the psychodramatic techniques of soliloquy, doubling, mirroring, concretization, role reversal and others offer an immense range of ways to investigate and heal.
Karen Carnabucci, MSS, LCSW, LISW-S, TEP, is a psychotherapist and educator who employs traditional and contemporary models to work with people to solve problems, make decisions and expand creativity. She is a licensed clinical social worker and nationally certified trainer, educator and practitioner in psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy and co-author of the groundbreaking book Healing Eating Disorders with Psychodrama and Other Action Methods: Beyond the Silence and the Fury, published in 2013. She is also the author of The Psychodrama Notebook. She offers training sessions by appointment and Skype. You may receive her e-mail newsletter at www.lakehousecenter.com.
