Designing and Implementing Creative/Experiential Exercises For Clinical Goals

                                                                 Friday October 18, 2019  1-5 pm   

The Magnet Training Center  22 W. 32nd St.  10th Floor,  New York, NY                                                                                                                          

This training provides 4 contact hours of Continuing Education for social workers approved by NYS


 Creative exercises designed to engage clients in ways that promote specific clinical goals integrate the emotional, cognitive, social, and imaginative dimensions of experience and can move the therapeutic process in powerful ways. At the same time, they can be used to communicate about information we want to convey and provide opportunities to try out a new behavior in real time with active support. The games and exercises used in Applied Improvisation emphasize positive emotional connections and are highly effective tools for generating cohesion and increasing psychological safety in groups, but can also be adapted for use in couples and individual therapy.  Creative experiences generate emotions and direct attention in ways that align with the principles of cognitive reframing and social-emotional learning, which bring relevancy and meaning to the small shifts and skill development that moves the change process forward.  

This workshop will provide creative/experiential techniques that have specific clinical goals and explore ways to expand on them within different clinical scenarios. We will experience the exercises and debrief them with discussion about their application in group and individual settings. We will then explore how to design and implement experiential exercises based on specific clinical goals. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1.  Identify the five phases of a creative/experiential exercise;
2. How to structure an exercise based on behavior or learning goals;
3. Understand the cognitive and emotional dimensions of creative experiences;
4. Describe brain plasticity and the role of creative experiences in shaping it;
 5. Learn about research into experiential, social-emotional learning and the change process;

 

INSTRUCTOR: Jude Treder-Wolff, LCSW, CGP, CPAI is a trainer/consultant and writer/performer who specializes in creative approaches to learning and change. She recently served as chair of the Applied Improvisation Network 2019 World Conference, in partnership with the Alan Alda Center For Communicating Science at Stony Brook University and is an adjunct faculty at UC-Berkeley in CA. 

  • 4 contact hours of CE for social workers approved by NYS; Other professionals will also receive a certificate if requested.


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