67th Annual Conference

Friday, February 26

Morning Workshops

10:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.

Workshop 44

Souldrama: Accessing our Spiritual Intelligence: Let Go of My Ego!

Chair:

Connie Miller, TEP, NCC, LPC, Owner and Trainer, International Institute for Souldrama, Spring Lake Heights, New Jersey

Souldrama, recognized as one of the new advances in psychodrama, is psychospiritual group action model that leads participants through seven sequential stages of spiritual development, moving past resistance, with the goal of accessing our spiritual intelligence.

didactic-sharing of work experiences-demonstration-experiential

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe how this new model can be applied to 12 step recovery programs, corporate groups, relationships and grief work.

2. Describe how this model integrates all three of our intelligences, the rational, emotional and spiritual.

3. Demonstrate strategies how this new model can help group members help clients move past resistance in their lives.

4. Define and integrate a multidisciplinary approach incorporating spirituality and psychology into the group process.

5. Identify ways for mental health professionals to apply this integrate mind-body-spirit approach to their own work.

6. Uncover and use central themes to tie together isolated events and issues.

Course References:

Gardner, H. (1999). Intelligence Reframed. New York: Basic Books.

Miller, C. (2007). Psychodrama: Advances in theory and practice. In C. Baim, J. Burmeister, M. Maciel (Eds.), Advancing theory in therapy: Psychodrama, spirituality and Souldrama (pp. 189-200). London: Routledge Press.

Miller, C. (2008) The Journal for Creativity in Mental Health Volume: 3 Issue: 2

ISSN: 1540-1383 Pub Date: 7/31/2008.

Zohar, D. & Marshall I. (2000). Spiritual Intelligence: The Ultimate Intelligence, Bloomsbury Publishing, London.