Writing in Therapy Workshops with Anne Bach
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This special workshop demonstrates using writing for inner exploration. Activities include brief spontaneous writing activities with discussion of how writing in response to images opens awareness of the stirrings of the unconscious.
Each numbered course features entirely different content. They need not be taken sequentially.
This course demonstrates how expressive writing can be useful for personal exploration. Engaging the imagination helps reveal unclaimed dimensions of emotional experience. Writing activities show how spontaneous expression can help us gain compassionate perspectives towards ourselves and others.
Focus is on methods of encouraging participants to write freely. We will discuss how writing encourages healing through increasing confidence and self-acceptance. The ongoing practice of reflective writing can be a major aid in finding personal fulfillment.
The material is presented at an introductory level, requiring no background in writing or psychology.
Recognize how the unconscious can be evident in reflective writing.
Select helpful methods of acknowledging individual perspectives.
Discern how the inner life can be enriched through expressive writing.
Demonstrates techniques useful in stimulating the imagination.
Identify strategies for introducing writing activities into psychotherapy.
Discuss effective facilitation methods for group writing.
The following CE credits are available:
Psychology, MFT, LCSW, NBCC, Nursing : 6 CE hours
Most teachers must get credits approved by their school administration. Center courses meet the requirements in most states. Contact us if you need more information about receiving credit in your state.
Select a date from the list of seminar dates
Register online or call the Center
These courses are offered online via Zoom meeting.
Anne Bach, M.S., MFT 38891 is a specialist in uses of writing in psychotherapy. She gives presentations on creativity as inner work at major conferences, and lectures widely on psychological dimensions of expressive writing. She also appears in memoir drama performances for various theater groups, including the Marsh Stage in Berkeley. Her clinical background includes poetry therapy with seriously mentally ill patients.
This day includes support from Jonathan Young, PhD, psychologist.
Zoom link opens at 9:30 a.m. - Workshop 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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