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Healing the Wounds of History

September 20 @ 9:00 am - December 13 @ 12:00 pm

$80.00 – $1,500.00

Healing the Wounds of History

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A 13 Session Experiential Training 

• Live Online •

Facilitated by
Armand Volkas, LMFT, RDT/BCT 

Learn peacebuilding and conflict transformation techniques to heal generational, historical and ancestral trauma through drama therapy.

For Psychotherapists, Drama and Expressive Arts Therapists, Social Workers, Interns, Trainees, Coaches, Peacebuilders, Social Entrepreneurs, and Activists

No previous theatre experience required 

Shy clinicians are welcome!

Fridays, 9am – 12pm Pacific Time
September 20 – December 13, 2024
Saturday Intensive
  December 7, 2024
9 am to 1 pm

Where: Live Online

COST FOR COURSE
$1,500 
(Payment plans and limited discount scholarships available)
ADDITIONAL FEES:

Fee for 36 CEs$80
(See drop-down menu below for more information)

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT
armandvolkas@gmail.com
510.595.5500, ext. 11

Healing the wounds of history through Drama therapy

About the Training
In this training, participants will learn a unique approach to healing collective, historical and cultural trauma. The training will also address transforming intercultural conflict using techniques drawn from drama therapy, expressive arts therapy, Psychodrama, Sociodrama, Playback Theatre and creative ritual. Through experiential exercises integrated with didactic explanations of the model, the facilitator will guide participants through an embodied exploration of the following questions:
  • How do cultures emotionally integrate a legacy of perpetration or victimization?
  • How do we prevent rage, guilt and shame of one generation from haunting a people for generations to come?
Drama Therapy and the expressive arts can provide a bridge between personal and collective experience, help people digest complex feelings, heal deep wounds and put ghosts of history to rest.
Intensive Workshop
The Healing the Wounds of History training will culminate with participants assisting in a one-day intensive workshop with one group or culture who share a legacy of generational and historical trauma, where the tools they have learned will be applied and integrated.

 In past workshops, we have worked with:

• Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Nazis
• Palestinians and Israelis: Mapping the Emotional Terrain of Peace
• Japanese and Chinese on their legacy of WWII and the Nanjing Massacre
• Armenians and Turks
• Turks and Kurds
• Bosnians Serbs and Muslims
• Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo
• Black Americans and Jews
• Indigenous Canadians and the descendants of White Settlers

In this cycle of the course, we will examine the historical and collective trauma of the AIDS Epidemic and its impact on the Gay Community and other generational traumas.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT, armandvolkas@gmail.com
510.595.5500, ext. 11

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HEALING THE WOUNDS OF HISTORY

The Healing The Wounds Of History Process
Healing the Wounds of History is a process in which psychotherapy, drama and expressive arts therapy techniques are used to work with a group of participants who share a common legacy of historical trauma. The process was developed by Armand Volkas, a psychotherapist and drama therapist from Berkeley, California. Volkas is the son of Auschwitz survivors and resistance fighters from World War II. He was moved by his personal struggle with this legacy to address the issues that arose from it: issues around identity, victimization and perpetration, meaning and grief.
Healing the Wounds of History helps participants work through the burden of such legacies by transforming their pain into constructive action through acts of creation and acts of service.
Registered Drama Therapist Alternate Training
This course fulfills the core drama therapy (3 unit, 45 hour) educational requirement for Drama Therapy with Specific Populations or Advanced Elective in Drama Therapy for the Alternative Training Program with the North American Drama Therapy Association when combined with additional required coursework.
An additional Zoom administrative fee of $80 will be added to the total course fee.
Contact Armand Volkas for more information:
armandvolkas@gmail.com, (510) 595-5500 ext. 11
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Continuing Education Credits For Healthcare Professionals

• 36 Continuing Education (CE) Credits are available for Psychologists, MFTs, LPCCs and LCSWs for an additional $80 fee.

• CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

• The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by sponsors of CE who are approved by the American Psychological Association.

• LCSW, LPCC, LEP and LMFTs, and other professionals from outside of California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept credits from programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.

• SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. Nurses outside of California must confirm acceptance with their licensing boards.

For questions about your certificate or the content, logistics, or other support issues regarding this course, please contact Center for the Living Arts at info@livingartscenter.org

For questions about whether APA CE is valid for you, contact your licensing board directly. 

For general questions about APA CE, contact SCA at info@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.

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Continuing Education Learning Objectives
At the end of the program, participants will be better able to;
 • Discuss the differences between collective trauma, historical trauma, ancestral trauma and generational trauma using the psychodramatic technique of the locogram
• Describe how historical trauma impacts cultural and national identity and self-esteem in traumatized cultures at a personal level
 • Explain the social, psychological and biological mechanisms through which historical trauma is passed from generation to generation
 • Demonstrate how dysfunctional cultural narratives are formed through the use of the Healing the Wounds of History Map of Messages exercise
 • Apply the basic principles of intercultural communication though psychodramatic soliloquy and interpersonal dialogue
 • Analyze how personal and cultural messages get translated into “life scripts” through the Map of Messages exercise and through the Therapeutic Spiral Model
 • Design a drama therapy progression in service of trauma transformation goals
 • Compare the differences between therapy and activism
 • List the 6 phases of the Healing the Wounds of History approach
 • Apply and teach the principles of intercultural communication through psychodramatic doubling, sculpting and soliloquy
 • Design a social change project, of your own choosing, which reflects a passion, belief, or value that you hold deeply
 • Utilize skills of drama therapy, sociodrama, psychodrama, expressive arts therapy and creative ritual with a social change and therapeutic intention
 • Demonstrate and use at least 3 drama therapy spontaneity exercises to form group cohesion.
 • Demonstrate a beginning competence in how to use drama therapy in working with social justice and peacebuilding issues.
 • Explain the steps involved in personal and collective apology and repair
 • Utilize beginning psychodramatic and drama therapy techniques with individuals and groups in service of healing generational trauma
 • Demonstrate how to uncover historical wounding in individuals and groups, develop a hypothesis about the collective trauma and empower the client to transform their traumatic inheritance by creating a new narrative
 • Analyze and discuss the terms social change, peacebuilding & conflict transformation
 • Assess the psychosocial consequences of political denial or minimization of collective and historical traumas like the Holocaust, Slavery and the Genocide of Armenians and Native Americans in individuals and groups who carry these legacies
 • Discuss epistemological similarities and differences between collective and transgenerational trauma theories
 • Describe the psychobiological components of historical trauma by explaining the basics of Epigenetics
 • Discuss and compare the differences and similarities in the approaches to healing historical trauma outlined by Eduardo Duran Healing the Soul Wound of Native Americans, Joy DeGruy’s Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome and Armand Volkas’s Healing the Wounds of History model
 • Explain Yael Danieli’s theory of differing responses to transgenerational trauma through the observation of adaptational styles in families from traumatized cultures: victim, numb and fighter in trauma survivors children
 • List and explain the principles of Transactional Analysis and explain Eric Berne’s theory that dysfunctional behavior is the result of self-limiting decisions made in childhood in the interest of survival that culminate in life scripts
Healing  generational, historical, and ancestral trauma involves an uncovering of the dysfunctional narrative or “life script” that we carry beyond your conscious awareness as a member of the collective. Hurtful spoken and unspoken messages about life, love, and our self-worth, as well as positive messages that have been handed down from our culture or ancestors, can impact our feeling of well-being, self-esteem, and our very identities.

FACILITATORS

Armand Volkas

ARMAND VOLKAS, MFA, MA, MFT, RDT/BCT

Is a psychotherapist and Registered Drama Therapist in private practice and Clinical Director of the Living Arts Counseling Center in Berkeley, California, where he directs a training program for students, interns and therapists who want to integrate drama therapy into their practice. Drama Therapy uses acting improvisation and Psychodrama as therapeutic tools. He is a Board Certified Trainer in this discipline with The North American Drama Therapy Association. In addition, Armand is Associate Professor in the Counseling Psychology Program at California Institute of Integral Studies. He has developed innovative programs using drama therapy and expressive arts therapy for social change, intercultural conflict transformation, reconciliation and intercultural communication.

Armand Volkas directs Healing the Wounds of History, a therapeutic approach in which theatre techniques are used to work with groups of participants from two cultures with a common legacy of violent conflict and historical trauma. Healing the Wounds of History has received international recognition for its work in bringing groups in conflict together: Germans and Jews; Palestinians and Israelis; Japanese, Chinese and Koreans; Armenians and Turks; African-Americans and European-Americans.

He is also Artistic Director of The Living Arts Playback Theatre Ensemble. Playback Theatre transforms personal stories told by audience members into theatre pieces on the spot using movement, ritual, music and spoken improvisation. Sometimes a story becomes myth, sometimes a realistic enactment: some stories are tragic; others are funny or illuminating. The ensemble is in its 30th year of existence. At the heart of Armand’s work is a profound respect for the power of personal story to build bridges between people and cultures.

Continuing Education Units
• Apply the Healing the Wounds of History approach as a powerful tool in transforming individuals, groups and societies. 
• 36 Continuing Education (CE) Credits available for Psychologists, MFTs, LPCCs and LCSWs. Approved by the American Psychological Association.
• Fulfills core educational requirements in the Registered Drama Therapist Alternate Training Program with the North American Drama Therapy Association.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

 

Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT
armandvolkas@gmail.com | (510) 595.5500, ext. 11

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$1,500 for a 13 Session Group (Payment plans available)

ADDITIONAL FEES:
CE Fee – $75 
Alternative Training Course – $75

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