Workshops & Events

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Current Events:

• A new Group is schedule to start in April 2025
• Next Curtain Up course will be filmed for a documentary In August 2025
• Performing the World Conference in October 2025

Past Events:

•  The “How” of Social Therapeutics: Panel training on social therapy panel. Sponsored by the East Side Institute, November 2023
• The Therapy Play: A Performance Narrative to the Therapeutic Person-Group Engagement. October 28th 2012  Conference.Sponsored by American Academy of Psychotherapy. 
• Improv for Social Anxiety and Depression: A Creative Method. May 7-8th 2015. Workshop at the Statewide LPCA Annual Convention. The Challenge of Change.
• Ending the Victimization Cycle: Managing Crisis With Creativity, Training at Communities in Schools, Atlanta, GA August 2011
• Reinitiating Child’s Play with Adults: A Path to Spiritual Possibility, June 11 2011. A Workshop for the Society for the Integration of Spirituality and Psychotherapy. Atlanta.                                   
• "The Performance of Spirituality and the Spirituality of Performance: A workshop in Community Building and Personal Development” December 2009. For the Society for the Integration of Spirituality and Psychotherapy
• Conference Co-Convener and Presenter. Improvisation for Lasting Change: Setting the Stage for Creative Collaboration in Social Work Practice, teaching and Research: University of Maine. August 2007, 2008
• Co-creation of Ethics in Social Work Practice: A Postmodern Perspective”, Workshop panel presentation, CSWE, 2005 Annual Program Meeting, New York
• “Can Hip Hop Develop Young People and Build Communities of Change” w/ Nichelle Brown. Workshop at the Georgia NASW Statewide Conference. October 2004
• “Improvisation and Performance in Social Work” Joint presentation and panel, CSWE 2003 Annual Program, Atlanta, February 2003
• “Development and Diversity: Transforming Boundaries” with Rachelle Moore, LCSW Workshop at the Georgia NASW Conference , October 2002
• “Empowerment through Therapy as Performance: Improvisation, Creativity and Ethics”. led with Jerry Gale, PhD, Director. MFT Program, UGA. Dec. 2001. Georgia State University
• “The Performance of Therapy: All-day workshop on Performatory Short Term and Group Therapy, March 27 and June 5, 1998, Atlanta Center for Short Term Psychotherapy.
• "Learning For Development”, Four-Day Intensive Training of 60 Psychologists and Educators from humanitarian organization, Zdravo da Ste (Hi Neighbor) in social therapeutic performatory approach to development. Republica Srpska, Bosnia & Herzegovina, December 1997.                
• “Violence, Performance and Development”, American Academy of Psychotherapy, Atlanta, October 1997         
• “A New Short Term Approach for Managed Care”, American Group Psychotherapy Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, February 1996
• Keynote luncheon panel on “Violence and Its Treatment: Progressive Approaches”, Georgia NASW Statewide Conference, 1994.

Talk on “Can Philosophy Inoculate the Neurotic: Wittgenstein’s Language Games & Applications to Psychotherapy, Georgia State University Philosophy Forum, Spring 1994.