BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ad7be1e4c6725a7a0449537d9302b81d173 CATEGORIES:Consortium Events SUMMARY:Using Improvisation in Relationship Therapy LOCATION:Couple and Family Institute of New England\, 53 Center St.\, Northampton, M A 01060 DESCRIPTION:
Instead of viewing therapy as a way of discovering “who you a re,” Rehearsals for Growth (RfG) is a therapeutic form that uses theater im provisation to explore and expand the limits of “who else you can be” while maintaining an awareness of play and pretense in the moment. RfG stretches and playfully challenges patterns of intra- and interpersonal stuckness. I n addition to their usefulness as tools for clinical assessment and interve ntion, RfG exercises provide a highly effective way of teaching systemic th inking, expanded use of the therapist’s emotional range, and clinical chang e via shifts in the presentation of the therapist. In this experiential wor kshop, volunteer participants learn playful exercises useful as clinical in terventions to: