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Trauma Trainings for the CAN Y Staff
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On November 11th, four of CANY's Program Staff attended How Does Trauma Affect the Brain?, a training sponsored by the Post-Graduate Center for Mental Health's (PCMH) Forensic Services Academy.
Notably, this training was held on Veteran's Day. Before the session started, Krista King, the Academy's Training Coordinator, invited all participants to recognize the significance of this particular training falling on Veteran's Day. Almost all veterans (a population long-served by CANY) experience some level of trauma. In a way, King drew a parallel to the importance of ongoing training in areas affecting our clients and how, in essence, taking the time to learn about these areas is a way of honoring them.
Dr. Minerly's training has specific implications for CANY's trauma-informed drama therapy approach. First and foremost, she specifically cited drama as an effective treatment strategy for trauma, as it inherently involves action, distance and creativity. She also cited group therapy work as intrinsically important in the treatment of trauma, in part due to the mirroring and dynamic interpersonal bridging taking place in that context.
Read more about Dr. Minerly's opinion of CANY and learn why Dr. Jacob Ham stated that, "drama therapy's focus on narrative and storytelling has positive implications in the treatment of trauma."
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CANY Presents at Two National Conferences
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CANY was well-represented on both the West and East coast this November during two of the annual conferences involving the Creative Arts Therapies.
At the 32nd Annual NADT Conference, Program Director Heidi Landis and Training Director Lucy McLellan presented their workshop, In the Bedroom - Drama Therapy with Sexually Trafficked Girls to over 50 conference attendees. This workshop allowed participants to investigate the use of drama therapy to safely explore sexual roles and relationships with teenage girls who have been commercially sexually exploited, embodying the traumatized body in reparative narratives of connection and strength. "It was great to see faces that we normally don't see since the conference was held in San Francisco," noted Landis.
Only a few days later, McLellan and Landis returned to the East Coast and presented another workshop at the Expressive Therapies Summit here in New York. This four-day summit brought together all the creative arts therapies and provided an opportunity to share and learn together across disciplines. This time, the topic was Using Trauma-Focused Drama Therapy to Enhance Socio-Emotional Growth. Through experiential and didactic learning, this workshop explored findings from a yearlong research study, assessing how CANY's model increased social-emotional learning and how that might form the basis of a trauma-informed drama therapy. Participants explored methods used in CANY groups, tools and techniques that provide containment for the social and emotional wounds of trauma, allowing clients to access the healing potential of the imagination and generate a new sense of self.
McLellan also stated, "We choose to invest in the local and national creative arts therapies communities. What better way to do this than by attending these events?" |
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Join Us for a Professional Drama Therapy Training
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Join us for the next Professional Trainings that CANY has to offer!
Sunday, December 4, 2011
An Introduction to Drama Therapy
for Mental Health Professionals, Social Workers, Couselors, Creative Arts Therapists, Psychotherapists
Register Today!
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SAVE THE DATE Friday, April 27 - Sunday, April 29, 2012
Drama As Therapy: An 18-Hour Training Program in the CANY Model of Drama Therapy
Registration Opens in December, 2011.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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From all of us at CANY....
Wishing you a Healthy and Happy Thanksgiving!
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