 N.S.P. offers a certificate and diploma training programme in psychodrama and, with MPV/SAM (Sociodrama and Action Methods, see below) a diploma in sociodrama. Please visit our new website: www.psychodramansp.co.uk The Northern School model of Psychodrama is underpinned by the Person Centred Approach. The NSP diploma is currently recruiting trainees for 2009-10: the diploma is a part time 4 year programme which is mostly on weekends leading to a U.K.C.P. and B.P.A. recognised qualification as a psychodrama psychotherapist. The diploma costs £ 2395.00 per year. Fees are reviewed annually. The diploma takes a minimum of 4 years to complete. There are other costs associated with training (such as travel, therapy, supervision and external training hours). Please ask for further information. We also provide certificate level training: six weekends over 2 years (see below). People interested may also attend one of our open weekends. Next Diploma start date September 2010 Interview fees: £40 for Certificate, £50 for Diploma and Intermediate Level. Diploma fee: from September 2010 £ 2395.00 per year Intermediate Higher Level Certificate: £ 1995.00 per year Certificate £ 975.00 in total. Fees will now be set annually. Training enquiries to: Dr. John Casson, 62 Shaw Hall Bank Road, Greenfield, Oldham, OL3 7LE tel: 01457 877 161 drjohncasson(at)gmail.com NOTE: ON THIS WEBSITE TO PROTECT E-MAIL ADDRESSES FROM SPAM I HAVE SUBSTITUTED THE "@" SIGN FOR (at). -------------------------------------- We run training workshops in Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne, in Cumbria and Scotland. NEW PROGRAMME Unconditional Positive Regard September 24-26th, 2010 with Jenny Biancardi and Lynette Green in Newcastle One of the more difficult core conditions from person centred theory is that of aspiring to unconditional positive regard toward our clients. In this workshop we will look at the connection between deep empathy and unconditional positive regard and how to express and develop this in a psychodrama setting, as well as the rest of life. Autumn Residential November 1st - 5th, with John Casson and Sandra Grieve at Nightingale Centre, Peak District, Derbyshire: a beautiful countryside venue for a five day residential psychodrama training workshop. 50 hours of training/CPD. The Therapeutic Process November 26-28th, Lynette Green and Sandra Grieve in Glasgow An exploration of the nature and quality of the therapeutic relationship and of the conditions that are necessary for us to work at relational depth. Psychological Contact January 28-30th 2011, Jenny and Sandra in Newcastle Being fully present, being authentic or congruent, is a crucial part of being an effective therapist or psychodramatist. We will look at ways we can take risks and reveal, and share, our response to others in a respectful and therapeutic way. It is possible to say almost anything, once you know how to express it in a useful way. Join us for the weekend and take some risks! Drama, Psychotherapy and Psychosis: psychodrama with people who hear voices. February 25-27th, John Casson in Manchester Safe practice through an exploration of the method and special issues in this work. From 1996-2000 John worked with people who hear voices (auditory hallucinations) in individual and group therapy in the NHS. He conducted doctoral research into what people who hear voices find helpful or not helpful in dramatherapy and psychodrama. He completed his PhD at the Manchester Metropolitan University in 2002. A book based on this research "Drama, Psychotherapy and Psychosis", with a foreword by Zerka Moreno, was published by Brunner-Routledge in 2004. The book is the standard text for working in this field. John has continued his work with people who hear voices. His research led to the development of specific safe methods, such as the communicube (see: www.communicube.co.uk) and working in miniature. This training workshop will also look at the experience of the therapist and the development of empathy: a vital ingredient of safe and effective practice. Person Centred Psychodrama March 18-20th Norbert Apter in Newcastle Pioneer of humanistic Action Methods and Psychodrama in the French part of Switzerland, Norbert Apter is an accredited person-centered psychotherapist-psychodramatist and trainer. The psychodramatist’s way of being in a therapeutic relationship is a key factor in the co-construction of psychodrama. Carl R. Rogers came to the conclusion that the primary role of the helper was a relational one and lay within the “way of being”. Thus, in order to combine both the way of being and the way of doing, the psychodramatist must become a facilitator-psychodramatist. Spring Residential May 9-13th Sandra and Lynette Residential Venue tbc Grief and Endings. July 8-10th John Casson in Manchester YHA We will explore unfinished business, mourning, saying goodbye and closure. Mourning is a central theme in psychotherapy. Unfinished business and unresolved act hungers can be completed in psychodrama. Successful closure, complimented by continuing affective bonds that provide healthy sources of spiritual and emotional connectedness, is a hall mark of completed grieving. Some losses however are more difficult to grieve and psychodrama offers a way to work with these. Working towards an ending of therapy is also important and we will look at what is good practice in structuring a planned ending. Many people find endings difficult. This workshop is an opportunity to explore this issue. John worked for three years as the training manager for Cruse Bereavement Care NW (2003-6). Weekend Workshop fee: £149.00, or £129.00 if paid in full 3 months in advance. Autumn Residential Fee: £445.00 including all accommodation and meals A deposit (non-refundable) of £ 50.00 secures a place. While therapeutic, the weekends are training events constituting 15 hours training. All weekends: Fri 6pm-9pm; Sat 10am-5pm & Sun 10am-3pm. Please make cheques payable to The Northern School of Psychodrama Apply to: Lindsay Billsborrow, 13 Old Coppice Side, Heanor, DE75 7DH Tel: 07948404698 Email; admin(at)psychodramansp.co.uk Website: www.psychodramaNSP.co.uk All weekends: Fri 6pm-9pm; Sat 10am-5pm & Sun 10am-3pm. Please make cheques payable to The Northern School of Psychodrama Apply to: Lindsay Billsborrow 13 Old Coppice Side, Heanor, Derbyshire, DE75 7DH admin(at)psychodramansp.co.uk tel: 079 484 04 698 Or to discuss psychodrama training contact Dr. John Casson Tel: 01457 877161 drjohncasson(at)gmail.com Trainers' Profiles Jenny Biancardi, B.A.C.P. senior accredited counsellor; U.K.C.P. registered psychotherapist, B.P.A. senior trainer of psychodrama, Certificate in Counselling Supervision, Jenny has been involved in developing person centred counselling training for a variety of organisations for many years. She has developed a particular interest in effective and safe work with trauma, and has recently run workshops on this nationally and internationally. Jenny is particularly committed to combining person-centred theory with psychodrama. She has recently completed a chapter for a book entitled "Idiosyncratic Person-Centred Therapy" Sandra Grieve, is a7 BPA registered trainer and UKCP registered psychotherapist. She is a person centred counsellor, psychodramatist and supervisor. She has worked with offenders, young people, older people and children with a learning disability. She contributed a chapter to the book, "Communicating with Children and Adolescents - Action for Change". She works nationally and internationally and is currently particularly interested in bodywork and psychodrama. She is in private practice in Lanark and is part of Strathclyde University's research project on counselling in schools. John Casson PhD., Dramatherapist, Psychodramatist, Supervisor and Senior Trainer. He has been a therapist for over 25 years, 11 of which were in NHS adult psychiatry. He is in private practice as a psychotherapist at Inscape, Uppermill (near Oldham, Lancs). His book is Drama, Psychotherapy and Psychosis, Dramatherapy and Psychodrama with People Who Hear Voices, Routledge (2004) is based on his PhD. He is the inventor of the Communicube: see www.communicube.co.uk Susie Taylor (UKCP registered psychodrama psychotherapist), is registered with the British Psychodrama Association (BPA) as a Senior Trainer and was co-founder of the Oxford Psychodrama Group, and is now co-founder of the Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama. She has run psychodrama training groups internationally in Greece, Finland, Montenegro, Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia and Croatia. Susie originally trained as an Occupational Therapist and worked in Mental Health settings from 1975-84. Her clinical work includes working with offenders in Grendon prison; Roman Catholic Brothers, Priests and Sisters; alcoholics; victims of abuse; people with personality disorders. In 2003 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the BPA. Times for all weekends: Fri 6pm-9pm; Sat 10am-5pm & Sun 10am-3pm [Certificate in Psychodrama The Northern School of Psychodrama offers an Advanced Diploma in psychodrama. We are now responding to the current demand for training in a more modular fashion by introducing the Certificate in Psychodrama. This Certificate will offer training to individuals who wish to use aspects of psychodrama as part of their working practice but who are not necessarily wanting to train to full Advanced Diploma level. This course will give participants skills and theoretical knowledge of many of the action techniques involved in psychodrama to add to their existing therapeutic skills both for group work and individual client work. The Northern School of Psychodrama on completion will award a Certificate of attendance. The course will comprise six weekends run over two years. Weekends can be chosen from the four open weekends, currently run each year by the Northern School. The course will be suitable for professionals including other arts therapists, counsellors, nurses, social workers, teachers and community workers. The course would count as external hours should a participant choose to continue onto the full diploma with another training organisation or as APL with The Northern School (APL policy available on request). The course will count as 96 psychodrama training hours. Certificate fee: £ 975.00 Course staff team; Jenny Biancardi: Senior Trainer BPA; BAC Accredited Counsellor. Dr. John Casson: Senior Trainer BPA; Sandra Grieve: Trainer BPA; certificate tutor and person centred counsellor. For further information and application form: - Dr. John Casson, 62 Shaw Hall Bank Road, Greenfield, Oldham, OL3 7LE tel: 01457 877 161 drjohncasson(at)gmail.com ---------------------------------- NEW INTERMEDIATE COURSE HIGHER LEVEL CERTIFICATE in Creative Action Methods in Psychotherapy NSP is pleased to announce the development of a new Intermediate Level of training in Creative Action Methods in Psychotherapy. This training is open to people who are already qualified counsellors and therapists, who are members of their respective professional bodies. It will constitute CPD and equip trainees with skills in Creative Action Methods. The course is accredited by the British Psychodrama Association as a pilot scheme for 2009-2012. Trainees will attend six weekends and one Spring Residential week a year, for two years. There is some choice of weekends from our open programme of workshops. Trainees will also be offered individual and group tutorials. There are three pieces of written work and all components must be completed within three years of registering. The Intermediate Level will lead to a Higher Certificate of skills in Creative Action Methods in Psychotherapy. The cost will be £ 1995.00 per year, a total of £ 3990.00. An interview fee of £ 50.00 will be charged. Course staff team; Jenny Biancardi: Senior Trainer BPA; BAC Accredited Counsellor. Dr. John Casson: Senior Trainer BPA; Sandra Grieve: Trainer BPA; certificate tutor and person centred counsellor. If you are interested please contact: Dr. John Casson 62 Shaw Hall Bank Road, Greenfield, Oldham, Lancs., OL3 7LE drjohncasson(at)gmail.com tel: 01457 877 161 ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* We also co-operate with MPV/SAM: Sociodrama and Action Methods to offer a diploma programme in Sociodrama. MPV/SAM also provide an open certificate programme in sociodrama in Sheffield and an International Summer School: see the pages "Other training Opportunities" on this site for details or to contact them ring Ron Wiener on 0113 266 7722 e-mail: ronwiener(at)27gledhow.freeserve.co.uk ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* NSP is proud to have trained many excellent psychodramatists over the last decade and celebrates their many achievements and contributions to the field. We therefore are delighted to announce the latest important contribution to the psychodrama literature edited by one of our graduates: Zoli Figusch. FROM ONE-TO-ONE PSYCHODRAMA TO LARGE GROUP SOCIO-PSYCHODRAMA More writings from the arena of Brazilian psychodrama Edited by Zoltan Figusch 
This is the second volume of Brazilian psychodrama writings translated and edited into English. While the first volume (Sambadrama ? The Arena of Brazilian Psychodrama) presented the historical background and identity of Brazilian psychodrama, as well as the theoretical and technical innovations introduced by the Brazilian psychodrama practitioners, this second volume focuses on two other areas of creative development and innovation: Through theoretical reflections and clinical examples of practice the first part includes chapters regarding the theory and practice of one-to-one psychodrama, that is, psychodrama psychotherapy with an individual client and without auxiliary egos. Part two focuses on the socio-psychodramatic work with large groups and public events gathering great numbers of participants. This is the second volume of Brazilian psychodrama writings translated and edited into English by Zoli Figusch. The book focuses on two areas of creative developments introduced by Brazilian psychodramatists. Through theoretical reflection and clinical examples of practice the first part presents the theory and practice of one-to-one psychodrama, that is, psychodrama psychotherapy with an individual client and without auxiliary egos. Part two focuses on the socio-psychodramatic work with large groups and public events gathering great numbers of participants. 263 pages, 6.14" x 9.21", paperback binding, black and white interior ink: ?24.95; or e-book: download £15,00 www.lulu.com http://www.lulu.com/content/5760090 Contents: PART 1 The theory and practice of one-to-one psychodrama psychotherapy 1. V.C.A. Brito: One-to-one psychodrama: Reflections on the theory and practice of psychodrama with an individual patient - 2. D.M. Bustos: One-to-one psychodrama psychotherapy ? 3. R. Antonio: Dramatic action and inter-subjectivity: One-to-one psychodrama with a depressed patient ? 4. A. Kaufman: Play in one-to-one psychotherapy ? 5. L.M.V. Kim: Tele and transference in psychodrama psychotherapy ? 6. J. Fonseca: Relationship psychotherapy: A minimalist psychodrama ? 7. Z. Figusch: The melting clock: A psychodrama technique for grief work in a one-to-one setting ? 8. M. Aguiar: Spontaneous theatre and one-to-one psychodrama PART 2 ? The theory and practice of large group socio-psychodrama 9. A.M. Knobel: Large groups: History, theory and psychodramatic practice ? 10. C. Davoli: The spontaneous theatre, its terminology and the warm-up to dramatization ? 11. A. Liberman: Re-plotting - The individual plot, re-plotting in the group, and the dramatic action as an agent for transformation: A sociodramatic proposal ? 12. L. Contro: Soliloquies of the director: Interventions in a large group ? 13. E.M.S. Costa and T.T. Baptista: Living newspaper: A creative and cathartic event ? 14. C. Davoli: Psychodramatic scenes: Liquid psychodrama ? 15. M.N. Greeb: The psychodrama of S?o Paulo City ? 16. R.F. Monteiro: Spontaneous theatre: A political act This book is the second in a series that bring the cutting edge and innovations of the Brazilian psychodrama practice into the English language, and another building block in the bridge of international communications and networking between the psychodrama cultures of the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Zolt?n (Zoli) Figusch is a clinical and educational psychologist; BPA and UKCP registered psychodrama practitioner. He trained at the Northern School of Psychodrama (UK), after which he lived and worked for two years in S?o Paulo, Brazil. At present, Zoli works as a psychodrama psychotherapist in Manchester, UK. He is also the editor and translator of the book ?Sambadrama ? The Arena of Brazilian Psychodrama?. figusch(at)hotmail.com N.B.: on this website the @ sign in e-mails is replaced by (at) to reduce spam. |