Group Offerings
Group Dynamics Workshop
I often think back to the day in directing school when my teacher pulled out six cans of Campbell’s Tomato Soup, sat them on top of a desk, and told us to make stage pictures.
Clearly, this made an impact – and the soup visual has been weirdly useful in the odd blocking rehearsal – but when I graduated and got into real live rehearsal rooms, I found complex humans where soup cans used to be. While I learned a lot about craft in school, as I started to direct professionally, it became clear how important group leadership and facilitation skills are to a safe and effective artistic process – and also, how little my training had prepared me to take on the interpersonal part of this role.
In social work, I found a whole field of study focused on understanding the ways in which the group process supports connection, ensemble, mutual aid, and success in achieving group goals. I’ve been able to integrate these principles into my work as a director, leading to some of my richest and most fulfilling artistic experiences, in both the process and the outcome.
As directors and stage managers, we’re constantly juggling – call times, deadlines, design needs, allegiance to the text, all while trying to hear the play’s heartbeat and build ensemble in the room. It’s a lot – and, often, we’re facing pretty high stakes as we try to get all of that right. This workshop aims to strengthen, through group work knowledge and a greater understanding of self, the interpersonal foundation of the artistic process.
When
Saturdays 10am-12:30pm
April 20th - June 1st
(no group May 18th)
Where
Zoom
Cost
$225
Anti-Racist Accountability + Consultation Group for White-Identified Mental Health Clinicians
⅓ of the group’s proceeds goes to support the #TreatmentNotTrauma campaign
WHY: The purpose of the group is to deepen anti-racist clinical practice among white-identified clinicians and build community for speaking out against white supremacy culture.
This group was developed by Marion Malcome, LCSW and Briton Holmberg, LCSW, four years ago, as an answer to the lack of anti-racist training (more specifically, training with a focus on mindfulness and embodied self-work, rather than work based in academia and intellectualization) within the mental health field.
The group aims to explicitly center the BIPOC experience in both curriculum and discussion of impact, while also providing a space for white-identified clinicians to integrate anti-racist principles and practices into their worldview without placing the burden on folks of color to educate and hold space for that learning/unlearning.
CURRICULUM includes the following topics: tendencies of white dominant culture, racial identity development, allyship/co-conspirator-ship, tools for interrupting racist ideas/comments in therapy and within organizations, clinical supervision, alternatives to calling the police during mental health crises, and internalized racism. Discussion and activities will support participants to put anti-racist values into action, both personally and clinically.
Where
Zoom
When
A session of this group is currently in progress. Information will be provided when the following session is announced.