In twelve-step programs, people heal partly through the telling and sharing of their own stories. It is through the sharing of the trauma and pain and the subsequent healing that people form common bonds that unite them. To get beyond that connection of pain, they need to go further by sharing their soulful moments, their hopes, and their dreams. This requires re-establishing a relationship with their creativity and, through their higher awareness, connecting with others on a spiritual level. Using action methods offers exciting and effective ways to expand and enliven communication, learning, skill building and self- discovery in groups with those in recovery from substance abuse. Who can use these techniques? Substance abuse counselors who are helping clients to move through various stages of recovery. The techniques used here can be used for action interventions in groups, with couples, individuals. As clients move from talking about to exploring their problems in action, opportunities arrive to heal the past and clarify the present and to imagine the future.
This experiential workshop will offer addiction counselors and mental health professionals:
· Action methods to help clients break through denial and accept their powerlessness.
· How to put the 12 Steps into action.
· Exciting and creative ways to enhance communication.
· Participants will learn how to use: Action sociometry to build group cohesion and enhance communication;
· Enhance their relationship with a Higher Power
· Doubling and role reversal as powerful tools for awareness of self and others:
· Role Play to explore challenging situations that arise on the path to sobriety and practice skills necessary to prevent relapse.
· Specific action warm ups to help focus on substance abuse related issues.
Connie Miller TEP, NCC, LPC, international author, speaker and transpersonal psychotherapist developed Souldrama® an outgrowth of codependency, as a group action method that accesses our spiritual intelligence by balancing our rational, emotional and spiritual intelligences so that we may move past the resistance in our lives. This model puts spirituality into action and removes the blocks that cause relapse. Connie lives in the USA and is Trainer, Educator and Practitioner of psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy, licensed professional counselor, transpersonal psychotherapist and Nationally Certified Counselor. She trains people worldwide in this process through the International Institute of Souldrama.She also volunteers teaching in Indonesia. She can be reached at www.souldrama.com or connie@souldrama.com.
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