Module 2: Experiential Check-Ins
Module 2: Experiential Check-Ins
Step-in-Circles, Locograms, and Spectograms
Presented By
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Tian Dayton MA, PhD, TEPMore Info
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Talk alone does not reach the kinds of inner states wherein trauma is held. Research on neurobiology has revealed the importance of an approach to healing trauma that involves the body and the mind. This can be challenging for treatment centers in training staff and creating safety. Sociometrics is an embodied process that makes bringing experiential work into treatment programming measured, safe, and effective.
Step-in-Circles, Spectrograms, and Locograms are experiential processes from JL Moreno’s triadic system of psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy. They help clients warm up to and enter an experiential process within themselves and in a group. They also allow clients to begin to understand and measure the impact of relational trauma on themselves and their lives. Participants in this module will learn how to break the ice and warm group members up to being in a process, how to connect and bond groups, how to move group members from their chairs into a more active experience, and how to move group members from their “heads” to becoming present in their here-and-now of the group process.
The educational goal of this module is for clinicians to learn how to conduct step-in-circles, locograms, and spectrograms.
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
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Describe 2 activities that can be used to “break the ice” and warm the group up to experiential work.
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Describe 2 processes that can be used to warm group members up to each other.
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Explain how to facilitate the process of sharing feelings openly.
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Demonstrate how to offer quick, experiential “check-ins.”