Background: This workshop is designed to give the clinician experiential tools to assess their clients in the areas of spontaneity and creativity which are the foundation of passion. Through role development, role reversal, and doubling we can assist out clients to move into connection with self and others which allows them to make decisions based on need, instead of anxiety and detachment. Whether you are working with an individual, family, or group, these methods will be useful to move the client to their longings of connection, meaning, and passion.
Objectives: 1. Following this presentation. participants will be able to identify an appropriate warm-up considering the theme and make-up of the group.
2. Following this presentation, participants will be able explain how the lack of warm-up and passion of the clinician can effect the trajectory and outcome of the therapeutic process.
3. Following this presentation, participants will be able to observe and participate in at least three exercises to identify passion robbers, or blocks to the true self.
A. Warm-ups: Necessary to connect the individual to themselves, and others in order to identify needs.
- Sociometry: Types of measurements that make the covert, overt.
- Spectrograms: Line of measurement that director identifies they want to measure in strength or intensity.
- Locograms: Place of measurement
- Step-in Sociometry: Call out group criteria in order to find common themes of connection
- Hands- on Sociometry: Go and place your hands of the shoulder of the person who fits the criteria called out by the director.
- Pen and paper sociometry: This is a diagram of who is present and meaningful in their lives at present and identifies patterns of their relationships.
2. Action
- Safety
- Grounding: Have group members share how they disconnect and review grounding techniques such as breathing, body scanning, mental techniques of counting, here and now questions.
- Angel introduction: Introduce yourself from someone that loves you and is concerned for you.
- Safety circle: Have each person in the group lay down a scarf that represents a positive characteristic they have. This is formed in a circle as each group member lays down their truth. Then ask the members to go to a scarf in the circle that they need more of which helps them identify needs and begin to connect, with others and their truth.
- Inter/intra/spiritual introduction: Client chooses 3 people to represent an internal strength, a good friends evaluation of them, and their spiritual resource. They stand in the middle of those three people and listen to their truth.
- Role reversal:Technique to understand the other, whether that is internal, or external.
- Doubling: Technique to expand the internal or external voice, move the client to a deeper understanding, and to assist with decision making and change.
- Deepening Double: Techniques that helps client and therapist step into their real internal truth not the expectations, or demands of others. Useful in knowing one's truth and trying on roles that are non limiting.
- Sculpting: Technique of allowing the client and therapist to see relationships in the present, past and future, internally and from the mirror position.
3. Sharing/Closure: Installation of change and truth.
''Life like lightning, splits open our hearts,testing us to the core. From the ashes of our pain and sorrow , new life and hope spring forth."Dorothy Satten
Mary is an award- winning national and international speaker who has been leading seminars, retreats and workshops for over 30 years. Mary is a clinician known for her work in the field of eating disorders and addictions. She has been privileged to work with many of the premiere treatment centers offering training in leadership, psychodrama, strategic planning and program development. Having served as past-president, Mary continues as a member of the iaedp advisory Board of Directors.
