Trauma Center Workshops
The Trauma Center at JRI offers a variety of workshops and clinical consultation groups designed to provide professional support and advanced, hands-on learning opportunities for clinicians and other providers working with children and adults who have experienced trauma. Workshops provide state-of-the-art information about key topics in the field of traumatic stress, integrating innovative and well-established practices and areas of exploration. Consultation groups are organized around key thematic areas, and are space-limited to maximize participants experience.
Featured 2009 - 2010 Training Initiative:
Master Clinician Series
This series will feature lecture presentations from prominent expert faculty, addressing the treatment of trauma and highlighting different treatment modalities and perspectives. The series will take place from 6:30 - 8:30 P.M. on selected Mondays from October through April. Discounts are available to individuals who register for multiple lectures.
Next lecture, Monday, April 12, featuring Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. For more information and to register, please click HERE.
Creating Change: Expressive Arts and Improvisational Theatre in Trauma Intervention
Dates: April 26 and 27, 2010
Times: 8:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M. each day
Location: 1019 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
This two-day conference will immerse participants in creative strategies applicable to work with children, adolescents, and adults who have experienced trauma. Day One will introduce an expressive arts therapy framework for trauma treatment, including a range of strategies which may be implemented by clinicians in individual, family, and group work. Applications will be drawn from the expressive arts component of the Trauma Center’s SMART Program. On Day Two, participants will explore techniques drawn from improvisational theatre, including role play, skits, and cooperative games, to support clients in skill-building, self-expression, and relational engagement. This workshop highlights programming from Urban Improv, as well as our center’s Trauma Drama model, programming that has been selected for its wide application to clinical work in milieu and outpatient settings. Both days will be highly experiential, and space is limited.
For more information and to register, please click HERE.
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Teaching Certificate Program
*For Yoga Instructors*
Description:
At the Trauma Center at JRI, we have begun to establish empirically that yoga may be helpful for people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (van der Kolk, 2006). Along with feedback such as, "I feel like I can use my body again," the groundbreaking study that the Trauma Center conducted in 2004 showed that yoga changes core physiology related to PTSD. Since that time, the Trauma Center Yoga Program team has taught hundreds of classes to thousands of students from survivors of rape and childhood incest to Iraq war veterans. We are now offering a 40-hour certificate to certified yoga teachers who would like to teach trauma-sensitive classes in their communities.
For more information and to register, please click HERE.
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