Embodiment, Creativity and Transformation
A Playback Theatre-Psychodrama Group
Tuesdays 7:00p.m – 9:30p.m
July 26th – Sept 27th
(10 Sessions: Participants must commit to the entire series)
1800 Market St, Rm 302, San Francisco
$35 per session*
Register by July 15th!
This group will provide a safe and supportive space for deep healing and personal transformation. Participants define their own therapeutic goals while using experiential processes to achieve them. Therapeutic modalities include: Playback theater techniques, psychodrama, mindfulness and talk therapy.
Playback Theatre transforms personal stories into improvised theater pieces using movement, ritual, music and spoken improvisation. Playback Theatre offers opportunity for expression, insight, validation and growth through the enactment of personal stories within the company of supportive others. Playback Theatre also invites healing through the cultivation of spontaneity, creativity, playfulness, empathy and cooperation.
Psychodrama utilizes therapeutic, experiential and embodied methods to explore the hopes, problems or issues raised by an individual or group. Through the use of role-play, enactment and other tools, psychodrama allows for the safe expression of emotion, whilst inviting perspective and insight to emerge. In the dramatic realm, participants are also able to experiment with new roles, behaviors and specific actions that might be taken in the world. By engaging our affective, cognitive, relational and spiritual capacities, psychodrama stimulates innovative responses to internal conflicts and real life dilemmas.
About the Facilitator: Ben Rivers, M.A. holds over 10 years of combined experience as a psychotherapist, social worker and group facilitator in Australia and the USA. He specializes in the use of Psychodrama, Playback Theater, Therapeutic Spiral Model, Sociodrama and other applied theatre methods for the promotion of trauma recovery, social justice, conflict transformation and community wellbeing. Ben holds a Masters in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Drama Therapy from the California Institute for Integral Studies, USA, and is a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern at The Living Arts Counseling Center, supervised by Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT, MFC# 28789. For more information please visit www.BenRiversTherapy.com
Spaces are limited to only eight people! Register now by calling (415) 395 6328 or emailing benrivers@livingartscenter.org
*Limited partial scholarships available
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