2010 Workshop and Events Schedule
Last revised 12/09
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TSI is a training institute dedicated to providing experiential training, education and direct services to support people who are affected by trauma and violence in the global community. TSI teaches the Therapeutic Spiral ModelTM (Hudgins, In Press, 2002, 2000) as a safe and effective method of using experiential methods of change. TSI develops local self-sustaining Action Trauma Teams that use action methods to decrease symptoms of PTSD and other stress-related problems through live supervision of direct service teams working with trauma
Most teams conducting personal growth workshops include at least one member in a supervised training status. All direct services workshops have a state-licensed clinician on the team, and whenever possibleTSI teams consult with referring physicians, therapists and others before and after workshops.
Let us explain a few of our TSI workshop descriptions as you read our annual schedule. Please check this Web site at regular intervals for additional workshops as the year progresses. If you or your agency would like to schedule a conference presentation or a specialty workshop, please contact our Director of Training at DrKateTSI@mac.com.

Action Against Trauma Training
TSI developed a community training program with the Institute for Violence and Survival at the University of Virginia's Foundation for the Humanities in 2001-2002. Combining the Therapeutic Spiral Model with the humanities has produced an easily replicable program of experiential education and training for communities effected by violence in the global community.

Core TSI Training:
Four weekend courses offered by a fully trained TSI staff that teach basic experiential skills from the clinical lens of the Therapeutic Spiral Model. Courses include Containment, The Trauma Survivor's Intrapsychic Role Atom, Bodywork, and Defenses.

Core TSI Core Clinical Training
Four advanced clinical courses that are part of the three-year accreditation program in the Therapeutic Spiral Model. Taught by an accredited TSI team: Team Roles, Transference and Countertransference, Projective Identification, and Ethics.

TSI Application Training
Advanced clinical and community applications of the Therapeutic Spiral Model which mee the requirements for accreditation in the Therapeutic Spiral Model. Currently offering: Advanced Bodywork, Addictions, Eating Disorders, Adolescents, Couples and Families, Music, and others.

Classical Psychodrama Series
TSM is based on the solid theories and methods of classical psychodrama as developed by Dr. Jacob L. and Zerka Moreno. Fortunately for us, TSI is able to offer training by Zerka Moreno, the grand dame and mother of psychodrama. Come learn from the best!

Personal Growth Workshops
Clinical workshops sponsored by a local clinician who is licensed in the state of practice. Training team supervised in action by accredited team members. The workshop can be core personal growth such as Surviving Spirits or Conscious Transformation or specialized workshops such as Bodywork, Music, or Trauma and Recovery.

Bodywork Series
The Baltimore, Md., site has developed around the bodywork team that specializes in nutrition, movement, energy and music. Come for personal growth with an emphasis on your body and healing from trauma experiences at the cellular level. Develop your own specialty site.

TSI Retreats
Each year TSI offers a number of residential retreats in countries where we work. Each retreat is an opportunity for the TSI community to come together to build personal strengths and connections with others. Retreats allow for protagonist work, practice directing or membership in a team. Come for self-care, a rejuvenating time and acceptance by others. The retreats are always scheduled in beautiful sites that invite relaxation and distance from the concerns of daily existence – plus good food, good company and good work.

Conference Presentations
Our trainers, team leaders and other team members often present the Therapeutic Spiral Model at regional, national and international conferences.
For information, please see accreditation standards and training program on the Training page of the Web site. As you will see, we help clinicians, educators and community leaders build their local teams with people who share their area of interest, whether bodywork, music, addictions, or other applications listed in our 2010 calendar. Contact the Director of Training, Dr. Kate Hudgins at DrKateTSI@mac.comfor information.

January 2010

January 8-10- Charlottesville, VA

This weekend course teaches you 3 ways to assess the personality structure of a trauma survivor with PTSD using role theory and using people friendly terms that takes therapy out of the often pathological view of DID, bipolar and other psychiatric disorders that trauma survivors are labeled with as they struggle with symptoms like body memories, flashbacks and anxiety attacks.  You will learn a pen and paper tool, an action role atom, and an art therapy collage--all creative ways for you and your client to look at the impact of trauma on their brains and their personality.  This overview of the Therapeutic Spiral Model is then put into psychodramatic action as you experience the roles of protagonist, trained auxiliary ego and assistant leader.  You do not need previous psychodramatic experience to begin your training in TSM as it teaches you the safest way to begin to learn psychodrama to keep your protagonist safe at all times, while involving the entire group to make it a truly therapeutic method for all members. 

Cost:  $425.   10%ASGPP discount  25 hours of training.  Housing available at local friends for $25/night or at the English Inn for single or shared room of 99/night.  Call the English Inn at (434)971-9900 to reserve your discounted room.  For more information or to register for this workshop, email DrKateTSI@mac.com

 

February 2010

 

February 28th,  Charlottesville, Virginia

One Day Workshop

Being Happy, Going Deeper

Embodying Power and Passion In Your Life

Using the Law of Attraction

This first time workshop brings together Dr Kate Hudgins and local healer and painter Janet Pearlman who is a Jin Shin Jynsut practioner.  Together they will bring alive the promises of the Law of Attraction writings and teachings through the safe use of Therapeutic Spiral Model experiential methods and the power of prayer.  Join us for a one day workshop that will teach to truly embody the power of passion in your daily life and relationship.

Price $110.  For registration.  Contact me at DrKateTSI@mac.com or Janet at call Janet at 434 823 2899.

March 2009

 March 12-14, Charlottesville, VA

Using Shamanistic/Eastern Energy medicine, the clinically modified methods of psychodrama in the Therapeutic Spiral Model, and advances in neurobiology of the brain showing how to soothe the body with mindfulness meditation, this workshop shows participants how to come into a state of healthy body awareness.  When one's life is disturbed by disrupted eating, life does live on the edge....of life and death...of self worth and worthlessness....of self-hate and a hope for self-love.  This workshop using the Therapeutic Spiral Model teaches methods of self-care through experiential therapy that touches the body-mind-spirit connection needed for all women to fully recover from disorders of eating that affect their whole relationship with self, family, others and the world.  Join us for a weekend of like-minded people seeking to recover from a path of obsession, compulsion and self-destruction and find light and healing.  

Cost $400.  English Inn for single or shared room of 99/night.  Call the English Inn at (434)971-9900 to reserve your discounted room.  For more information or to register for this workshop, email DrKateTSI@mac.com

 

March 20-21 - Ottowa, Canada

This two day course teaches you 3 ways to assess the personality structure of a trauma survivor with PTSD using role theory and using people friendly terms that takes therapy out of the often pathological view of DID, bipolar and other psychiatric disorders that trauma survivors are labeled with as they struggle with symptoms like body memories, flashbacks and anxiety attacks.  You will learn a pen and paper tool, an action role atom, and an art therapy collage--all creative ways for you and your client to look at the impact of trauma on their brains and their personality.  This overview of the Therapeutic Spiral Model is then put into psychodramatic action as you experience the roles of protagonist, trained auxiliary ego and assistant leader.  You do not need previous psychodramatic experience to begin your training in TSM as it teaches you the safest way to begin to learn psychodrama to keep your protagonist safe at all times, while involving the entire group to make it a truly therapeutic method for all members.

Cost:  $375 Canadian.  To register for this workshop, call Monica Forst at (613)823-3848.

 

April 2010

April 15-18, Philadelphia, PA

American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama Annual Conference

Dr Kate and her action trauma team are presenting a pre-conference workshop on April 15th, 2010.  They will conduct a prescriptive roles drama to show the power of containment, strength building, and resiliency.  Join us for this workshop and stay for the conference.  To register go to www.ASGPP.org.

 

April 23-25, Taipei, Taiwan

TSM with Art Therapy

Join us for the first ever workshop that integrates TSM with Dr. Lai Nien-Wa's model of Art Therapy. The workshop will be led by Dr. Lai Nien-Wha herself and her team.  This integrated model has been developed in Taiwan over the past four years where they have worked with women and children survivors of domestic violence.  Look for her chapter in the upcoming book "Stories on the Front Line:  Clinical and Community Action Using TSM Around the World."  To register for this workshop, contact Lindsay Chang at lindsay_chang@yahoo.com

 

April 30-May 2,  Kaoshing, Taiwan

Personal Growth for Professionals 

 

This weekend workshop is led by Dr  Kate and a trained Taiwanese team.  It offers an excellent opportunity for professionals to heal themselves or to have a time for self-care.  Participants will receive the love, care and containment a TSM team provides to experience the depth of clinically modified psychodrama.  Join a like minded community to experience this combination of shamanistic energy healing, psychodrama and hands on healing.

 

May 2010

May 2-4  Guangzhou, China

The Trauma Triangle

Victim--Perpetrator-Abandoning Authority

This weekend workshop is the first time the Level 2 Training Series is being offered in Southern China.  It is personally led by Dr Kate and her trained team from Hua Qiao University.  It teaches you how traumatic experience is internalized into the victim, perpetrator (self-blaming and criticizing) and abandoning self-care roles.  You will learn tools to help your clients identify their own trauma patterns and work through them in using the The Therapeutic Spiral Model.  You will also be able to use this workshop to heal your own traumas as protagonist and group members.  Please join us in our like-minded and loving community that is growing in Southern China.  To register for this workshop please contact Professor Zhao Binjie at zbj6666@126.com

May 14-16, San Francisco, CA

This weekend course teaches you 3 ways to assess the personality structure of a trauma survivor with PTSD using role theory and using people friendly terms that takes therapy out of the often pathological view of DID, bipolar and other psychiatric disorders that trauma survivors are labeled with as they struggle with symptoms like body memories, flashbacks and anxiety attacks.  You will learn a pen and paper tool, an action role atom, and an art therapy collage--all creative ways for you and your client to look at the impact of trauma on their brains and their personality.  This overview of the Therapeutic Spiral Model is then put into psychodramatic action as you experience the roles of protagonist, trained auxiliary ego and assistant leader.  You do not need previous psychodramatic experience to begin your training in TSM as it teaches you the safest way to begin to learn psychodrama to keep your protagonist safe at all times, while involving the entire group to make it a truly therapeutic method for all members.

Cost:  TBA.  To register for this workshop, email Mario Cossa at cossa@attglobal.net.

 

June 2010

 

June 11-13,  Charlottesville, Virginia

 

Surviving Spirits

Healing Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

This weekend healing workshop presents the original Therapeutic Spiral Model workshop for survivors of stress, trauma and violence.  Using an original TSM Trauma team and advanced students we co-create a like minded community of nurturing, loving compassionate spirits to hold the participants in a safe environment to explore their trauma histories from a place of strength, containment and resilency.  By first finding your spontaneity and creativity you will be able to face whatever trauma or violence you have experienced in your past and find the courage and spirituality to move forward to create a new and meaningful future.

Cost $400.  Housing is available at the English Inn.  English Inn for single or shared room of 99/night.  Call the English Inn at (434)971-9900 to reserve your discounted room.  For more information or to register for this workshop, email DrKateTSI@mac.com

June 25-27, Cirencester, England

British Psychodrama Association

Annual Conference

Dr Kate, Chip Chimera, and Enid MacNeil reunite to present the first TSM workshop in England since 2002. They will demonstrate together the use of an Action Trauma Team doing a Prescriptive Role drama showing the power of containment, strength building and concretizing spontaneity needed to face trauma roles.  Please come join us and stay for the conference.  To register please go to www.psychodrama.org.uk

June 29, England City TBA, probably Bath

The Trauma Survivor's Intrapsychic Role Atom

One day workshop following the British Psychodrama Conference providing the overview of the Therapeutic Spiral Model.  It teaches the core theory of why TSM builds strengths and containment in scene 1 of all our dramas before ever touching the trauma.  This provides the safety needed to prevent uncontrolled regression and unchosen catharsis, which is now known to only cause retraumatization of the brain.  All are welcome even if you did not attend the workshop at BPA.  to register for this workshop please contact Chip at chipchimera@btinternet.com

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July 2010

July 11-16, Summer Residential

This 5 day summer residential workshop teaches students the all important Prescriptive Roles of Scene 1 in all TSM psychodramas.  To prevent retraumatization in all psychodrama working with trauma, the director learns to empower the protagonist and the group with the Observing ego, the roles of restorative strengths, the Containing and Body Doubles and the Manager of Defenses.  When all of these roles are enacted on the stage, what you find is that you have have, in fact, DEFINED the state of spontaneity and the protagonist is able to stay in the here and now.  For many decades psychodramatists have said, how can you tell if someone is spontaneous? Well this course teaches the Prescriptive roles so that you can make sure that each and every protagonist you direct is always in a state of spontaneity that can lead to new creative action.  Team practice in the TSM roles of director, Assistant leader and Trained Auxiliary ego, as well as opportunities to be a protagonist in safe psychodramas. 

Cost:  $1200-10% ASGPP discount.  Shared living in rented homes in the mountains of Virginia with a cook and massage available.  60 hours of training.  To register for this residential, email DrKateTSI@mac.com.

 

September 2010

 

September 10-12 , Charlottesville, VA    

This workshop uses energy medicine, the Therapeutic Spiral Model and sandtray to celebrate the year long recovery from eating disorders women in this series or other paths have walked from their eating disorders.  We will do transformational psychodramas, starting with the TSM safety structures throughout the weekend to celebrate the empowerment of women of through healing the childhood wounds of body mind and spirit.  Join together with other women to welcome the Sleeping Awakening Child, the Good Enough Mother, and the God of Your Choice to be fully embodied through Spiral Healing as it joins with Reiki Energy to complete a vortex that builds your heart to sing with the Spirit guides of your future.  


Cost:  $425.   10%ASGPP discount  25 hours of training.  Housing at the English Inn for single or shared room of 99/night.  To register, email DrKateTSI@mac.com

To register for a workshop, contact Dr Kate directly at DrKateTSI@mac.com or by telephone at 434.227.0245.  

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