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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• 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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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.