Souldrama®

Training for Addiction Counselors in Action Methods and Souldrama

Training and Personal Growth for your Staff

One day program offered at your facility for 8 CEU hours for your staff

Now more than ever, spontaneity and creativity are needed to meet the demands of managed health care and the rapidly changing economy, culture and environment. Action methods offer unique, effective and powerful assessment, intervention and evaluation strategies and tools to meet these challenges. Souldrama emphasizes creativity and spontaneity rather than illness and psychopathology. You will be provided with an opportunity to enhance your creativity, spirituality and enthusiasm in your service to others.

This is your chance to get in on the new cutting edge therapy, Souldrama® a group action method that integrates psychology and spirituality and puts the 12 steps into action. Action methods give us the courage to change and to move forward. Souldrama gives us the new method to integrate psychology and spirituality. This process has been published in New Advances of Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy and has won the innovators award for creativity in new group methods from the American Counseling Association and the American Society of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama and Sociometry.

Psychodrama is the use of action techniques to explore an individual’s private and public world in a multi-dimensional way . It is useful to help individuals

Express unexpressed feeling

Find and practice new ways to change unsatisfying situations in life

Contact and develop the best that is in people and reinvest their power. These techniques can be used with individuals, groups and couples

A new cutting edge program to put spirituality into action for the 12 steps

Orange County, California 

Training for Addiction Counselors

A new model Integrating Two Models for the Treatment of Addictions: Souldrama®, Positive Spirituality and Twelve Step Recovery in Action

Training and Personal Growth for your Staff

One day program offered at your facility for 8 CEU hours for your staff. Sign up for one or all four sessions.

August 24, 2012 Learning Sociometry “ How Do You See Me?”

Action Methods for Steps 1-4

• Participants will learn how to use action sociometry:
• to define a group issue
• build group cohesion and enhance communication
• discover the hidden and relationships within a group through experiential methods.
• Specific action warm ups to help focus on substance abuse related issues.

This is a wonderful tool for a group leader as it visibly shows “who is in the group?”  Leaders will learn how to look at the connections within a group-who is over chosen, who is never chosen and who gets scapegoated.  Sociometry makes transference visible within a group and makes our choices visible. The action method of sociometry makes us responsible for our choices. Taking responsibility is a vital to a patient’s recovery. 

November 9, 2012  Doubling” What’s Not Being Said”

Action Methods for Steps 5-8

We all want to be seen and to be heard and to belong. Doubling is an excellent way and a valuable tool to “read between the lines”. Doubling deepens the client’s feelings, express the unexpressed, helps validate their feelings and helps to change their perception. Facilitators will learn how to use doubling in action with each other. Through doubling, transference is eliminated toward the clinician. Doubling can be used to help an “over productive client” focus on their feelings without shame and how to help the silent client, to speak.

February 8, 2013 “Role Reversal”

Action Methods for Steps 9-11

Role Play is involved to explore challenging situations that arise on the path to sobriety and to practice skills necessary to prevent relapse.

Participants will learn how to use the empty chair, role reversal and mirroring to enhance the growth of the clients.

April 19, 2013 “If God Were Among Us”

  Step 12

Participants will learn how to help the client break through denial and accept their powerlessness, enhance their relationship with a Higher Power, and to break through denial and accept their powerlessness. Acceptance is the decision to turn his or her “life over to the care of God as we understood Him Acceptance is the threshold to self-examination.

Here members explore their relationship with a higher power and gain a deeper sense of self-acceptance and unconditional self-love. Souldrama® builds on the idea of interactive conversations with a higher power as a way to live consciously.  Participants become aware of their internalized image of God. In enacting the role of the “higher self” or some other benevolent spirit or entity, individuals find themselves embodying their own ego ideal, and as a result, the statements made in the course of role-playing become affirmations, which then consciously become associated with the emerging sense of self. When the ego ideal is wise rather than clever, loving rather than selfish, and giving rather than getting, individuals are helped to move towards healthier goals and from relapse to recovery. 

8 CEU's / per session provided by these trainings are accepted toward national credentialing by the National Board of Certified Counselors and the American Board of Examiners for Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama and Sociometry.