Hello All you Lovely Psychodramatists.
Dr. Kate has asked me to write a blurb about the TSM training I have been offering in Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA over the past three years. It started off as something organic and has evolved into four modules, each one containing 8 sessions. It is a closed group of trainees who meet for 3 hours once a month for 8 sessions. This completes one module in the International Certification in Experiential Therapy Using the Therapeutic Spiral Model.
The first module is focused on Prescriptive (RX) roles, teaching all the safety structures, doing small vignettes, and small group exercises that give people an opportunity to practice observing ego, containing double, body double, and restorative roles. Participants learn to use the Trauma Survivor’s Internal Role Atom (TSIRA) to build the spontaneity and creativity needed to work with trauma for themselves and their clients.
The second module is 8 sessions of learning about the three different types of defenses, ie. Survival defenses, addictions, obsessions, and compulsions. We make sure to have fun as we create different ways of exploring the group’s own defenses. Then the last prescriptive role is introduced, the Manager of Defenses, and the group has opportunity to be creative in producing their own manager of defenses in self-presentations. This series ends with a prescriptive role drama.
The third module is 8 sessions of directing and participating in full trauma dramas where transformative roles are introduced. The group meets the Sleeping Awakening Child, the Good Enough Mother, the Father, and Spirituality. More seasoned group members have the opportunity to direct full dramas, while newer group members become more skilled as auxiliaries, deepening their learning in prescriptive roles, taking on trauma-based roles of Victim, Perpetrator and Abandoning Authority and Roles of Transformation, as mentioned above.
The last module is 8 sessions on transformation. September 2019 will be the first 8 sessions of the last module so stay tuned!
Each series gives an opportunity to take in new group members and allow for successful departures. Currently we have 10 group members, 4 of whom are more seasoned and 6 who are new to the model. At the end of each 8-session series, I invite the Master and Creator of TSM, Dr. Kate herself, to come and co-lead a client group where trainees have opportunity to participate on the team and have in vivo supervision while practicing their skills with a client-based group.
This leads me to tell you about the upcoming May 2019 Personal Growth Workshop on Boundaries. (see TSI calendar at therapeuticspiralmodel.com for info and registration). Since 2001, I have been bringing Dr. Kate to Ottawa to lead or co-lead personal growth TSM workshops. All though the theme is always post-traumatic growth, we often like to focus on a particular areaof growth. This May the focus will be on boundaries…. Where I Begin, and You End. May 24, 25, and 26th, 2019. We sure hope to see you there! Contact: Monica Forst, 613-823-3848 or monforst@gmail.com. Fee: $550.00 Cdn. Early bird. $600. Regular. Lunch included.
This workshop culminates the third module of the training series, where the training group will have just completed their 8 sessions on trauma dramas and many of them share their skills as Action Healing Team Members.
A Note from Monica Forst, TSI Trainer, Ottawa Canada