Developing Spontaneity in Mental Health (Group)

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When:
Monday 25 November, 2013 @ 23:00 – Tuesday 26 November, 2013 @ 02:00
2013-11-25T23:00:00+00:00
2013-11-26T02:00:00+00:00
Where:
Moreno Collegium
45 Clarence Street
Coorparoo QLD 4151
Australia
Cost:
$330 incl. GST
Contact:
Wendy McIntosh
0411 385 573
Email
Training Group
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Developing Spontaneity in Mental Health: Strengthening the Therapeutic Encounter

This series of four workshops will assist clinicians working in mental health to explore the work they do, using creativity in action in a supportive learning environment. Each week participants will be invited to reflect on moments they have experienced with clients where they have felt joyful, conflicted, stunted, frustrated, satisfied, heartened, disheartened, isolated or connected.

Being part of this group will help empower the practitioner to be more psychologically available, resulting in more satisfying and effective interactions for the practitioner and client/colleague.

A number of interventions from psychodrama including sculpturing, role training, role reversal, mirroring and doubling will be used to awaken and or strengthen creative and spontaneous role responses to challenging relationships and situations in mental health. The facilitator will also be interested in integrating some singing and creative writing into the work. Each session will build on the previous one. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on the impact they make in the workplace and to notice what happens when they create changes in their interactions with others.

This group will meet each Tuesday morning over 4 weeks.

Objectives:

  •  to build the role of spontaneous practitioner
  •   to strengthen professional identity and purpose
  •   to reflect on significant moments in the therapeutic encounter
  •   to understand the influences that affect decision making in the moment of an interaction with a client / colleague
  • Who should attend: Clinicians working in Mental Health, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, OTs & Medical staff.

Jacob Moreno’s operational definition of spontaneity: Responding with some degree of adequacy to a new situation or with some degree of novelty to an old situation. He further added: Mental healing processes require spontaneity in order to be effective. Moreno – Psychodrama The First Volume (1946: xii)

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