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California State approved CEUs will be available for California LMFTs and LCSWs.

 

29TH ANNUAL NADT CONFERENCE

November 6-9, 2008
 Crowne Plaza Hotel SFO
1177 Airport Blvd.
Burlingame, CA 94010

PRE-CONFERENCE
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6th

 Registration
8 am – 11am
1 pm – 4 pm

  ALL-DAY WORKSHOPS

9:30 am - 5:00 pm

 
PC1:  Principles of Drama Therapy
Carlos Rodriquez-Perez, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT
Kate Hurd, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT

This one-day intensive will introduce participants to the history and foundational principles of Drama Therapy. Sources, concepts and theory, which make up the main body of knowledge, will be presented and examined. Strategies and techniques will be demonstrated and experientially explored for use in a variety of settings and clinical populations.

 
PC2: Stagefright: Drama Therapy and Dissociation
Maria  Hodermarska, MA, RDT, CASAC, LCAT
Lucy McLellan, MA, RDT. LCAT
This all-day workshop will address clinical and aesthetic aspects of dissociation, using case examples from life and art. Charting the journey from disembodiment to re-embodiment, participants will explore how the tools of enactment, storytelling, and projective techniques serve to guide client and therapist back to a state of mutual presence.
 
PC3: Unearthing the Unconscious: Drama Therapy
Techniques that Reveal the Hidden Present
Armand Volkas, MFA, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT
Ron Miller, PhD.
 
The presenters will share drama therapy innovations including: archetypal images revealed through sound and movement in rhythmic trance-like states; improvised dreams communicating their meaning through "story theatre" narration; sociodramatic transformations exploring a common issue while free-associating on a theme; a collectively created allegory integrating deep feelings and providing closure for a group.
 
 MORNING WORKSHOP

9:30 am - 12:30 pm

PC4: The Fine Art of Losing Control: Somatic
Containment and Expressive Articulation
Jamie McHugh, MA, RSMT

Venturing into the unknown and extending one’s expressive repertoire can be over-stimulating. Proprioception - perceiving and referencing sensation within your own body - generates a sub-cortical "felt" experience of soothing and solidity. Somatic practices mediate reflexive reaction and cortical self-control in the present moment, creating more safety and less overwhelm.

PC5: Life Stories: Embodied Processes for Self-Revelatory Performance
Sheila Rubin, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT

Bring your stories to life! The Life Stories process uses drama therapy, somatic, and writing processes to invite an individual to access memories and stories that are held in the body. Beyond cognitive memory, this improvisational process uses mindfulness and the felt sense to help individuals create an integrated cohesive story that is witnessed by a supportive group.
 
PC6: Seven Cherished Things: The Imagination Process™ in the Present Moment
Wendyne Limber, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT
Petrina McGowen, MA, LMFT, RDT
James Brown, MA
 
Discover and explore what you cherish most with the creative integration of eastern and western psychology and wisdom, improvisation, ritual, music, sound, writing and a magical present moment from The Imagination ProcessTM. This workshop offers (trans)personal transformation, clarifying who you are and what is meaningful in your unique story.
 
 AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
 
PC7: Action Theater: Insight through Embodied Play
Catherine Debon, LMFT, RDT
 
In this workshop we will practice physical theater improvisation: Action Theater. By tracking our inner impulses and shaping them into movement, vocalization and language, we will connect to our authentic self and to others as we craft our imagination into theater. We will discuss how this mindful practice applies to drama therapy and to the creation of evocative self-revelatory performance
 

PC8: Surplus Reality: Embodied Imagination in Action
Sylvia Israel, RDT/BCT, TEP, LMFT
Elizabeth Pearson Plummer, Ph.D., CP, PAT

Dancing dragons, colliding stars and bottomless rabbit holes; images emerge through dreams, art, metaphors, and stories. Using the Jungian technique of Active Imagination, psychodrama, and the power of surplus reality we will welcome and embody images, allowing them to reveal their logic as well as their personal and their communal meanings.

PC9: No Unwounded Soldiers: Living in the Moment
– A Path to Healing (film & discussion)
Mary Lou Lauricella, MA
Rebecca Abbott, MA, MFA
 
“No Unwounded Soldiers” is a documentary film made at the VA Hospital, West Haven, CT by Quinnipiac University Professor of Film Rebecca Abbott. The film follows a small group of veterans as they explore – through their work in drama therapy – the way war changes those who fight.

 

 EVENING EVENT

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

P1: Acts of Resilience
 CIIS Theatre for Change Troupe
Claudia Cuentas Gutierrez
Maitri Gopalakrishna
Tia Jennings
Elyssa Kilman
Lance McGee
Natalie Palan
Patrick Tiongson
Marvin West

Directors:
Sauntoy Trotter
John Scott
Renee Emunah

This collaborative performance piece by the current CIIS TfC troupe (all drama therapy students, directed by CIIS alumni) examines with compassion and humor the impact of oppression, focusing on ways in which tokenization, stereotyping, and exotification occur – even within well-intentioned institutions such as CIIS (or NADT).

 EVENING MEETINGS

6:00 pm - 9:30 pm
 
PM1: NADT Board Meeting