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Clinical Training in Rehearsals for Growth

Virtual Online Workshop Series for Spring 2024

Currently, we are offering trainings on SPECIALIZED TOPICS (see below)

 

3 Module Series, Saturday afternoons, 2pm to 5pm, Eastern Time
2024 Spring Dates: April 6th & 20th, and May 11th

&

4 Module Series, Wednesday afternoons, 11am to 1pm, Eastern Time
2024 Spring Dates: April 17th & 24th, and May 1st & 8th

 

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Saturday Session Topics:

Sat., Apr. 6th: Directing RfG Enactments
Sat., Apr. 20th: Using Post-Enactment Processing
Sat., May 11th: Assessment using RfG Enactments

 

Wednesday Session Topics:

Wed., Apr. 17: RfG Core Concepts and Applications
Wed., Apr. 24: Directing RfG Enactments
Wed., May. 1: Using Post-Enactment Processing
Wed., May. 8: Assessment using RfG Enactments

 

Instructor: Daniel J. Wiener, Ph.D., RDT-BCT

Assisting Instructor: Margo Escott, LICSW

Assisting Instructor: Mo Sand, LMFT

 

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  • Training in RfG’s Improvisational Methods prepares therapists for their practical application.
  • RfG training via ZOOM demonstrates how these techniques are applied in our teletherapy sessions.
  • Come engage in enacting these playful techniques, preparing you to employ them in either virtual or face-to-face therapy!
  • In this module series, each highly experiential training will focus on one or two case examples centering on the use of particular, well-tested RfG Games/techniques, and will include students’ practice in directing RfG enactments and post-enactment processing appropriate to their Level of prior training.
  • Though the emphasis will vary across modules, all these experiential training sessions are designed to increase both understanding and proficiency in the use of RfG Games and exercises for students at all Levels
    of prior experience.
  • Trainees will both be able to practice these Games and learn how they may be adapted to their own cases.

Participants Receive:

3 CE hrs per module for recredentialling as RDTs from NADTA;

3 hrs per module of Direct Instruction in the RfG Certified Practitioner program (see Certificate Program)

 

Presenter

Daniel J. Wiener, Ph.D., RDT/BCT is licensed psychologist who taught Marriage and Family Therapy for 23 years as a Professor at Central CT State U. Founded in 1984 his approach, Rehearsals for Growth, uses improvisational theatre games to work with relationships. Dan has presented over 260 professional workshops in 10 countries, training over 1200 therapists and is an Author/Editor of 5 books (starting with Rehearsals for Growth: Improvisation for Psychotherapists in 1994), as well as 50 published chapters and articles.

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

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