Thank you for visting our website. I hope you will enjoy one of our workshops or trainings and contact us for more information to let your spirit soar! Blessings, Connie
Souldrama® was developed by Connie Miller, NCC, LPC. TEP. ACS. in 1997 and trademarked in 1999 as a therapeutic tool created for use as an adjunct to psychodrama and designed to move clients from co-dependency to co-creativity. Connie is the founder of the International Institute of Souldrama and also the owner of the Spring Lake Heights Counseling Center and Center For Codependency in New Jersey. She was employed for years as a career counselor and worked with families with children with cancer.Connie runs a group for professionals in training in action methods and also trains the staff at Seabrook House in southern New Jersey.She is a Trainer, Educator, Practitioner of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.and is recognized as a Fellow for that organization and also received the 2010 Innovators Award.SHe received the Thelma Duffy award from the American counseling Association for cretivity and cutting edge practice for Souldrama.
Connie has developed a new model to access our spiritual intelligence that incorporates psychodrama, group psychotherapy, the creative arts, energy work and sociometry that she has called Souldrama®. She has had articles on this approach published in our own International Journal of Action Methods (in 2000), more recently also in the Korean Psychodrama Journal, "Souldrama: a psychotherapeutic technique to access spiritual intelligence", the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, and a chapter in the recently published anthology from Routledge Publishers titled "Psychodrama: Advances in Theory and Practice.
Connie has written a book on this approach (it has also been translated into Portugese and published in Brazil and most recently Indonesian), made cd-rom teaching materials, and has been most active in presenting on this method nationally and internationally! She has built bridges to a number of associated fields by presenting at the conferences of the American Counseling Association, the National Board of Certified Counselors as well as to the field of addictions. In addition, Connie has run trainings in Souldrama for the past thirteen years in Mexico, Portugal, Greece and in England, Brazil and presently runs her own training group in Souldrama and other action methods.
More recently she present at the British Psychodrama Association Conference, in Greece, and planning training groups in Israel and Amsterdam and Connie has also been invited to India and Indonesia where she has led a tem of volunteers from Holland, Portugal and New Zealand to teach psychodrama, group action methods and soluldrama to the pastoral counselors, graduate psychology depts and health care workers. Connie is also employed by the Department of Defense on the death notification team helping to inform families of losses and injuries from overseas.
She is the author of many articles which have been translated in various languages integrating psychology and spirituality moving psychodrama to another level, that of the transpersonal. All workshops and trainings offer CEUs for NCCs as well as training hours for the American Board of Examiners.
Connie Miller
Lectures and Presentations
Juy-Aug. 2011 Souldrma in Bali First International Conference for Souldrama March 2011 Souldrama in Puglia Italy Feb 2011 California, Using Action Methods with Addictions July 2010 Souldrama in Indonesia May 2010 Souldrama in Tinos Greece May 2010 Souldrama in Puglia Italy March 2010 Souldrama Training in Hawaii Feb 24, 2010 Starve the Ego: Feed the Soul Presentation for AsAmerican Group Psychotherapy Ass, San Diego. Ca Jan 2010 Souldrama 6 days Chennai India Dec. 2009 Souldrama 3 days Delray Beach Fl. Nov 2009 Souldrama 3 days Salatiga University, Java, Indonesia Nov 2009 Souldrama 3 days Pastoral Counselors of Indonesia Key note Speaker and Presenter Oct. 2009 Souldrama Pocono Mountains Pa.3 days Oct.2009 Souldrama Presentation Lithuania Eastern European Conference Sept 2009 Souldrama Tinos Greece 6 days June 2009 Souldrama Herwiijen Holland 7 days May 2009 Souldrama, Tinos Greece 8 days April 2009 Souldrama Kauai, Hawaii 8 days April 2009 Souldrama LBI NJ. 3 days November 14, 2008 Florida Counseling Association: Putting Spirituality into Action July 17, 2008 Liverpool England, Souldrama June 30-Juy 4, 2008 Amsterdam Holland Souldrama May 2008 Sedona Arizona 5 day training in Souldrama March 2008 "Souldrama, Innovative Counseling Approaches" in Hawaii for the American Counseling Association National Conference for the section on Career Development Februaray 3, 2008 Action methods for Group warm-ups for the American Association for Specialists n Group Work St Petersberg Beach, Fla Jan 2008 roviding Spiritually intelligent Leadership, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas. First Asa Grant Hilliard Breakthrough Conference October 11, 2008 Breaking down the walls:reaching youth, families and communities through the arts in a comprehensive prevention strategy Seventh National and Annual Conference Rutgers School of Social Work Presentation “Helping Children deal with Grief through Action methods.” June 29, 2007 American Associaton of Groups for Social Workers,Jersey City, NJ Souldrama: A therapeutic model to access our spiritual IQ
May 2007 Souldrama: Tinos Greece 8 day training April 29, 2007 American Association of Psychodrama, Group Psychotherapy and Sociometry Annual Convention, NY . “Souldrama, Listening to the Soul.
Pre Conference Workshop American Counseling Association March 21, 2007 Souldrama, A six stage model for spiritual growth and recovery Annual Convention, Detroit, Michigan July 2006 Souldrama: a six stage model for spiritual growth Sao Paulo, Brazil International Congress for Group Psychotherapy May 2006 Souldrama and Transgenerational Psychodrama, Estoril, Portugal May 2006 NJ Counseling Association. “The Double-what’s not being said” Aug 2005 Souldrama at the Chalice Well, Glastonbury, England. April 2005 American Counseling Association. Pre Convention Educational Session Souldrama, a six stage model for spiritual growth and recovery. August 2004 Oxford, England British Psychodrama Conference, Souldrama, Listening to the Wisdom of the Soul. Nov 1999-2004 day trainings in Mexico Souldrama-A Journey into the Heart of God July 5-11, 2003 Souldrama®-A Journey into the Divine Heart .Hollyhock, British Columbia March 2003 American Counseling Conference, Anaheim, Ca. Souldrama-Soul Solution Therapy. Learning Institute Presentation May 2003 ASGPP annual conference Master Class Souldrama-it’s technique and applications.
1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,2004,2005, 2006 American Society of Group Psychotherapy & Psychodrama and ociometry annual Conventions; presenter of “Souldrama, a journey into the heart of God December 2001 Finding Spirituality in Divorce & Separation” Upper RoomSpiritual Center , Neptune, NJ. NJASGPP, Oct. 1998 “Souldrama” September 1999 NJ Association of Compulsive Gambling conference. “Co-dependency- Addiction to Potential”. November 2000 Conference. Souldrama, a journey into the heart of God. Mexico. September 1997 “Healing Your Childhood Wounds” Garden State Holistic Society; Lakewood, NJ & The Upper Room Spiritual Center, Neptune, NJ September 1995 NJ Rotary Club, “Co-dependency.”
Souldrama: A new method combining psychology, spirituality, and the creative arts. An action method to access your Spiritual Intelligence!
Co-creation Starts With Imagination!
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