How We Connect for Singles

 

1-day Playshop

This playshop for individuals will help you:

  • Enhance social confidence
  • Increase cooperation
  • Expand emotional range
  • Develop intimacy.

The protective shells which adults develop feel safe but limit growth. Often, we hope that a new relationship will fulfill our needs without much affecting us in the process. Yet, connecting to others always brings unpredictability and challenge into our lives. To best venture beyond these shells, expand emotional range and increase choice of response, we need a safe place to rediscover our vitality, passion and creativity.

Designed by Daniel J. Wiener, family psychologist, Rehearsals! for Growth is a unique combination of therapy and Improvisational Theater to explore playfulness, spontaneity, danger and discovery.

The Rehearsals! for Growth approach to How We Connect both teaches participants relationship skills and heightens awareness of underlying relationship habits, goals, styles and tactics. We do this by action exercises in which all may playfully (and safely) explore:

  • Cooperating in new ways
  • Learning how we use status (power) transactions
  • Supporting your partner to look good
  • Co-creating shared adventures
  • Broadening emotional expression

Psychological safety is a major feature of Rehearsals! for Growth workshops. During most of the workshop, participants work in pairs with different partners, doing exercises that are described beforehand, with the equally respected options of watching or participating. IT SHOULD BE EMPHASIZED that this workshop is NOT a form of group therapy. The exercises used do not involve disclosing personal information nor are participants’ performances analyzed.

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Excerpts from a Beginning RfG Class

—C-RfG update—

2023 Chinese RfG Certificate Program (C-RfG)

During 2022, at the initiative of Jing Zhao, a CIIS-trained Drama Therapist of ethnic Chinese origin, a collaboration with Dr. Dan Wiener resulted in the creation and implementation of the first Chinese RfG Certificate program, instructed by Dr. Dan Wiener in English with consecutive translation into Mandarin.  The aim of this program was to make RfG available within Chinese society, with the eventual goal of training Chinese RfG instructors who can carry on this work independently. This 60-hr. program, conducted via internet using the Zoom platform, trained 27 Chinese students from diverse professional backgrounds. In addition to attending the 20 three-hour online classes, students practiced what they had learned in class by meeting via the internet for an hour per week in small practice groups.

In 2023, two more Chinese RfG Certificate program class sections were taught to a total of 54 students and with a teaching faculty consisting of Dr. Dan Wiener as supervising teacher and three RfG-Certified Trainers as instructors: Mark Beauregard, LCAT; Margot Escott, LICSW and Maureen (Mo) Sand, LMFT.

A new Chinese-language website, www.rfgchina.com, is now linked here.

Sample Video

"RfG COUPLE THERAPY"

Watch this 5 minute sample of the full action methods video

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Last updated September 5, 2023