Facilitator Trainings

— NEWS FLASH! —
Pamela Underwood’s Expressive Arts Studios now offering… Facilitator Trainings
Led by founder of “Bodywriting Retreats for Women”, since 1994, Pamela Underwood

DEVELOP, MARKET, FACILITATE!

Art making groups are not therapy, but they may be therapeutic. This training will give you the tools to responsively guide participants and also assess when they are ready to go deeper with their images on their ownor might benefit from a professional expressive arts referral.
Part Two; Bodywriting Retreat Facilitator Training

After completing the facilitator training above (or equivalent) trainees will have the opportunity to register for the “Bodywriting for Women Facilitator Training”. This training structure can apply to any retreat theme but will focus on “Bodywriting™ Retreats for Women”. For more info contact Pamela.

Register now for 2010 classes and SAVE!
pamela@pamelaunderwood.com
www.pamelaunderwood.com
(Early registration discount below)

Is this exciting or what?! Is your body growing warm and tingley?
If so, read details below!

“Expressive Arts Group; Facilitator Training” for Women
&
“Bodywriting Retreats for Women Facilitator Training”

WHO? WHAT TOPICS ARE COVERED? & WHAT ELSE DO I GET?!

Who?

This expressive art making Group Facilitator Training provides a unique opportunity for personal and professional growth. Although Pamela is a professional Expressive Arts Therapist, this is NOT A THERAPY TRAINING.

This training is for women who are:

• interested in learning to safely facilitate expressive art making groups that help to develop a woman’s innate resource of art making for insight and joy; without re-wounding
• teachers with a desire to understand more about creativity as a human resource for emotional wellbeing and bring this knowledge into their classroom
• helping professionals who are looking to expand the realm of their current practice with expressive arts
• individuals ready to explore leadership and the inner landscape of their own imagination within the safe container of a group setting which Pamela provides

WHAT?

Develop/ Market/ Facilitate!

The expressive arts approach to group facilitation that Pamela Underwood has developed over 15 years of creating, marketing and leading successful groups will be presented step by step during the course of this training.

Participants will develop, market and facilitate a 6 week group with the invaluable support of a peer group and supervision.
Build a professional creativity support network!

On a personal level facilitator trainees will explore their basic understanding and relationship with the arts of movement, sound, journaling, poetry & visual art, recognizing how these arts are helpers and guides in their own lives.

TOPICS

• Creating a Safe Container
• Recognizing the line between facilitating an expressive art making group and facilitating Expressive Arts Therapy Groups
• Facilitator’s Personal Art Practice & Self Care
• The Art Making Lab and how visual art, poetry, music, movement are catalysts for one another
• Exciting Visual Arts Techniques will be taught and the arts of music, movement, poetry will be introduced
• Development of 6 Week Art Group Syllabus
• Marketing; Marketing Plan, Save the Date, Flyers , Mailing List, elevator speech and future vision
• Conference calls scheduled throughout the developed 6 week group

WHAT ELSE DO I GET?

“Group Facilitator Certificate”

Group facilitator graduates receive a certificate with documented Group Facilitator Training hours from “Pamela Underwood’s Expressive Arts Studios”.
Approved Expressive Art Making Group Facilitator Graduates’ name, photo, email address & link to web site a short bio will be added to the ”Trained Facilitators” page on the web site www.pamelaunderwoodstudios.com.

Part One; “Expressive Art Making Group Facilitator Training”

This training will walk participants through the process of creating, marketing and facilitating an expressive art-making group & is a prerequisite to continue on to the “Bodywriting Facilitator Training”(below)

DURATION:
Three Weekends & Three Months Supervised Independent Study over 6-months
$1600- Non-Residential
Training, supervision, all supplies & most meals included.
SAVE $40- REGISTER BEFORE The end of July 2010!

REGISTRATION:
$380 Non-refundable partial payment Due by July 31, 2010

SCHEDULE:

• Module I
  February 26-28
  Building Safety & Community
• Module II
  March 26-28
  Materials, Supplies, Resources, Self Care
• Module III
  April/May/June
  Independent Fieldwork Module
  Forming and facilitating an art making group with conference call support.
• Module IV
  July 29-August 1
  Crystalization

LOCATION:
Pamela Underwood’s
Expressive Arts Studio -
Poway California
Lodging Not Included

Part Two;”Bodywriting®Retreat for Women; Facilitator Training”

This training is Expressive Arts based and will be led by Bodywriting® Founder & Expressive Arts Therapist Pamela Underwood. You will learn every step of preparing, facilitating and reflecting on a 4 day Bodywriting Retreat for Women.

PRE REQUISITE:
“Expressive Art Making Group Facilitator Training” or equivilant (above)

DURATION:
Three Weekends & Three Months Supervised Independent Study over 6-months
$1600- Non-Residential
Training, supervision, all supplies & most meals included.
SAVE $40- REGISTER BEFORE The end of July 2010!

REGISTRATION
$380 Non-refundable partial payment Due by July 31, 2010
SCHEDULE:

• Module 1
  Sept 10-12
  Three day
• Module II
  October 12-14
  Independent Fieldwork
  Off site
• Module III
  November 12-14
  Three day
• Module IV
  Dec 9-12
  Four day

LOCATION:
San Diego County, California- TBA
Lodging Not Included