Virtual PAGPS Spring Workshop April 22, 2023 8:30AM – 12:30PM Eastern Time
Roll for Wellness 101: Using Role-Playing Games across Group Therapy Settings
3.75 CE credits for Psychologists, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, & Professional Counselors
Presented by Jacob Glickman, PsyD, MA, LPC
Tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) have emerged as one of the most exciting, new formats for group therapy; however, many clinicians question how to actually implement TTRPGs as part of their practice. In this four hour workshop, Dr. Jacob Glickman (creator of the game Roll for Wellness) will highlight the ways that group therapists can take their clinical knowledge and apply it to the world of role-playing, as well as share about the therapeutic potential that such games can offer clients in all settings. This half didactic/half experiential event is intended for all levels of experience with TTRPGs! Handouts will be sent to registrants in advance of the workshop. At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to: 1. Analyze the historical and cultural foundations of tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) to contextualize current academic/therapeutic interest in them. 2. Compare the structure and process of TTRPGs with that of group therapy to demonstrate the potential of TTRPGs as a treatment modality. 3. Translate between common terminology of TTRPGs and their counterparts within clinical theory. 4. Apply existing clinical skills to the new modality of therapeutic TTRPGs as preparation for using TTRPGs in treatment contexts. 5. Demonstrate the ability to read and fill out a character sheet, the fundamental tool in the therapeutic TTRPG process. 6. Assess how TTRPGs can enhance clinical practice as either a part of treatment or the primary treatment modality. REGISTRATION INFORMATION ALL attendees MUST register on our website: https://www.philadelphiagrouptherapy.com/ Payment will be accepted by PayPal above to our website and may also be made by check. Checks can be made out to PAGPS and mailed to the following address: 41 East Mount Pleasant Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19119. • member (for a free, one-year first-time membership, see our website: https://www.philadelphiagrouptherapy.com/) • 0 non-member • student rate • PAGPS Equity Rate is available – please see our website for details
Password for the Zoom meeting will be sent via email the day before the event NO ONE WILL BE ADMITTED WITHOUT HAVING REGISTERED PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THE PASSWORD FOR THE ZOOM LINK WITH ANYONE Please contact pagpsgroup@gmail.com or 610-613-5541 with any questions.
Zoom meeting will open at 8:00 AM, welcome and introductions at 8:15 AM and, because we are issuing CEUs, you must be present for the full four hours with your video feed on, beginning promptly at 8:30 AM.
ABOUT PAGPS CONTINUING EDUCATION
PAGPS offerings are designed for mental health professionals and deal with topics that are usually underrepresented in graduate training programs and/or that provide additional, advanced, and newly emerging perspectives on group therapy theory, research, and practice. This program is intended for mental health professionals at a post-graduate level. This program, when attended in its entirety, is available for 3.75 continuing education credits. The Philadelphia Area Group Psychotherapy Society (PAGPS) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PAGPS maintains responsibility for this program and its content. PAGPS is also approved by the PA State Board of Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists & Professional Counselors to offer continuing education for social workers, marriage & family therapists, and professional counselors. This program carries 3.75 CE credits. Attendees can also receive 3.75 credits toward re-certification for the National Registry of Certified Group Psychotherapists (CGP). PAGPS is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities and will conduct its activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. To arrange accommodations for special needs, please contact us at pagpsgroup@gmail.com. There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE sponsor, presenting organizations, presenter, program content, research, grants, or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest. The Philadelphia Area Group Psychotherapy Society (pagps.org), an affiliate of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (http://www.agpa.org), provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, theories, studies, research, information, and experience in group psychotherapy. Members come from all over the Philadelphia region, including the city of Philadelphia as well as surrounding areas in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Members may list their groups on the PAGPS website. For more information about joining PAGPS or renewing your membership, please visit our website at www.pagps.org, or e-mail us at pagpsgroup@gmail.com.
Thursday, April 27
Time:
All day event
Location:
Norris Conference Centers – Houston Westchase located at 9990 Richmond Ave., Suite 102, Houston, TX 77042.
Please join us for a 2.5 day in-person and virtual hybrid Institute on April 27-29, 2023! The Ethics Presentation with Archandria Owens, PhD, Licensed Psychotherapist/Racial Equity Consultant, will be held virtually via Zoom on Thursday, April 27. Both in-person and livestreaming options will be available for the Keynote Presentation with Daisy Reese, LCSW, and Peter Cole, LCSW, as well as the breakout groups on April 28-29.
Participants can create their own Institute experience by selecting the presentations and/or breakout sessions they wish to attend “a la carte” style. Please indicate on the registration form whether you will be participating in-person or virtually. Reminders with links will be emailed to participants joining us virtually. Lunch will be provided to participants joining us in-person on Friday and Saturday and is included in the registration cost. We will meet in-person at the Norris Conference Centers – Houston Westchase located at 9990 Richmond Ave., Suite 102, Houston, TX 77042.
Up to 15 Continuing Education hours are available for Psychologist, LCSW, LMFT, LPC, and CGP licenses/certifications, including 3 ethics hours. Clinicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the Institute. Learn more.
Questions? Need help with registration? Contact admin@hgps.org
Friday, April 28, 2023 | 8:00 am-5:00 pm 6 CE credits available
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” Robert Frost
In any group, from families to political groups to spiritual communities, ruptures inevitably occur, causing distress and disruption. This is certainly true of therapy groups. During the course of this Institute, participants will learn how to recognize and address ruptures and facilitating repair. An underlying element of almost all group therapy ruptures are the Enduring Relational Themes that are evoked in the current interaction. Working with repair provides the group therapist an opportunity to explore these Enduring Relational Themes.
Through the use of both didactic and experiential learning, you will learn to:
Identity both subtle and overt ruptures in the group
Slow down the group process
Support all the “voices of the field”
Recognize the Repetitive and Healing Dimensions of group experience
Explore enduring rela8onal themes evoked with the rupture
Work with the group therapist’s own feelings and countertransference to help facilitate repair
Enacting Racial Justice Through the Exploration of Diversity, Bias, and Our Lived Narratives
Thursday, April 27, 2023 | 6:00-9:00 pm 3 Ethics CE credits available
Bias “I don’t want to make anyone uncomfortable.” “My clients are not paying to hear my opinions/my concerns.” “You’re just not supposed to talk about race.”
We are often so much more acquainted with the reasons not to talk about race, that we are not as well-versed in the life-affirming reasons that we need to be naming it. It is often personally uncomfortable or objectionable in some way which leads many to not bring race into their professional realm. This includes mental health professionals. Race discussions in the therapy room are often relegated to a demographics question on intake paperwork or selectively spoken to if we make some assumption that race might be an issue for a particular client. What is often not considered is the fact that our ethics codes governing our practice require our active inquiry, advocacy, and responsibility around racial issues. Come ready for an educational process around race, but much more, come expectant for space to deeply explore our own narratives around race and how they create opportunities and/or barriers to deepening our clinical, and personal, engagement with racial justice.
If cost is a barrier to participation, please contact Ramsha Momin at ramsha.sw@gmail.com.
Online Registration Please note that this site is best viewed on a laptop/desktop using the current version of Chrome or Firefox. Need help with registration? Contact admin@hgps.org.
Agency Registration We invite agencies to join the Institute and offer a discount when 3 or more people from an agency attend. Please email admin@hgps.org to register.
HGPS follows the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council rules for acceptable continuing education for continuing education providers. The Council oversees Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists, Texas State Board of Examiners of Licensed Professional Counselors, Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, and Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners. While the Council no longer pre-approves or regulates continuing education providers and programs, our continuing education credits are accepted by the Council.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Please join us for a 2.5 day in-person and virtual hybrid Institute on April 27-29, 2023! The Ethics Presentation with Archandria Owens, PhD, Licensed Psychotherapist/Racial Equity Consultant, will be held virtually via Zoom on Thursday, April 27. Both in-person and livestreaming options will be available for the Keynote Presentation with Daisy Reese, LCSW, and Peter Cole, LCSW, as well as the breakout groups on April 28-29.
Participants can create their own Institute experience by selecting the presentations and/or breakout sessions they wish to attend “a la carte” style. Please indicate on the registration form whether you will be participating in-person or virtually. Reminders with links will be emailed to participants joining us virtually. Lunch will be provided to participants joining us in-person on Friday and Saturday and is included in the registration cost. We will meet in-person at the Norris Conference Centers – Houston Westchase located at 9990 Richmond Ave., Suite 102, Houston, TX 77042.
Up to 15 Continuing Education hours are available for Psychologist, LCSW, LMFT, LPC, and CGP licenses/certifications, including 3 ethics hours. Clinicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the Institute. Learn more.
Questions? Need help with registration? Contact admin@hgps.org
Friday, April 28, 2023 | 8:00 am-5:00 pm 6 CE credits available
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” Robert Frost
In any group, from families to political groups to spiritual communities, ruptures inevitably occur, causing distress and disruption. This is certainly true of therapy groups. During the course of this Institute, participants will learn how to recognize and address ruptures and facilitating repair. An underlying element of almost all group therapy ruptures are the Enduring Relational Themes that are evoked in the current interaction. Working with repair provides the group therapist an opportunity to explore these Enduring Relational Themes.
Through the use of both didactic and experiential learning, you will learn to:
Identity both subtle and overt ruptures in the group
Slow down the group process
Support all the “voices of the field”
Recognize the Repetitive and Healing Dimensions of group experience
Explore enduring rela8onal themes evoked with the rupture
Work with the group therapist’s own feelings and countertransference to help facilitate repair
Enacting Racial Justice Through the Exploration of Diversity, Bias, and Our Lived Narratives
Thursday, April 27, 2023 | 6:00-9:00 pm 3 Ethics CE credits available
Bias “I don’t want to make anyone uncomfortable.” “My clients are not paying to hear my opinions/my concerns.” “You’re just not supposed to talk about race.”
We are often so much more acquainted with the reasons not to talk about race, that we are not as well-versed in the life-affirming reasons that we need to be naming it. It is often personally uncomfortable or objectionable in some way which leads many to not bring race into their professional realm. This includes mental health professionals. Race discussions in the therapy room are often relegated to a demographics question on intake paperwork or selectively spoken to if we make some assumption that race might be an issue for a particular client. What is often not considered is the fact that our ethics codes governing our practice require our active inquiry, advocacy, and responsibility around racial issues. Come ready for an educational process around race, but much more, come expectant for space to deeply explore our own narratives around race and how they create opportunities and/or barriers to deepening our clinical, and personal, engagement with racial justice.
If cost is a barrier to participation, please contact Ramsha Momin at ramsha.sw@gmail.com.
Online Registration Please note that this site is best viewed on a laptop/desktop using the current version of Chrome or Firefox. Need help with registration? Contact admin@hgps.org.
Agency Registration We invite agencies to join the Institute and offer a discount when 3 or more people from an agency attend. Please email admin@hgps.org to register.
HGPS follows the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council rules for acceptable continuing education for continuing education providers. The Council oversees Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists, Texas State Board of Examiners of Licensed Professional Counselors, Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, and Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners. While the Council no longer pre-approves or regulates continuing education providers and programs, our continuing education credits are accepted by the Council.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
"Connecting, Disconnecting & Reconnecting in Groups,
Online & In Person"
The last few years have challenged group therapists to provide ongoing connections in new and innovative ways as many restrictions impinged upon meeting in person. We adapted and expanded our ways of connecting with each other through a screen that allowed for our voices to be heard and shared, our personal space to be exposed. We learned how ‘clouds’ of internet space made it possible for people from different geographical distances to come together. We are now courageously learning to integrate online and in person groups as ongoing modalities for providing group therapy.
This year, NSGP is offering a two-part Mini Conference to connect with group therapists, new, or experienced, near or far, to learn together and from each other through 2 all-day Experiential Groups.
Farooq Mohyuddin, MD, will be leading the January General Experiential Group for mixed years of experience.
Farooq is past president of MAGPS, past president of WPS, Chair of Psychiatry Training and Director of Psychiatry Residency Training Program at Saint Elizabeth's Hospital/DC Department of Behavioral Health. He is the recipient of the 2021 Harold S. Bernard Award for Group Psychotherapy Training by the International Board of Certification for Group Psychotherapists and the 2021 Award for Exceptional Leadership by the Washington Psychiatric Society.
Julie Anderson, PhD, CGP, will be leading a Special Interest Group, entitled “Moving between Two Dimensions and Three: How we experience our shifting dimensionality as we lead groups on Zoom and in person” in January on Zoom and in April in person. You must register for both sessions.
Julie is a clinical psychologist practicing in Brookline, MA. She has been involved in group psychotherapy for over 20 years, and currently sees patients and supervisees in both virtual and in-person formats. She has co-led an Observation Group at Brookline Community Mental Health for over 10 years, and has offered workshops and Experience Groups at the annual meetings of AGPA, NSGP and International Association for Group Psychotherapy annual conferences. She has been involved with the NSGP Conference Committee in many roles; currently she co-chairs NSGP’s newly-formed Program Committee.
Alexandra (Sasha) Watkins, LMHC and Anaïs Lugo-Guercio, OT will be co-leading the April Special Interest Group titled "Talking across differences: An Identity Based Approach to Groups" that will be held in person in the Boston area on April 29, 2023.
Sasha serves as a co-chair of the NSGP Diversity & Inclusion Committee. She is an Associate Director of MBA Student & Academic Services at Harvard Business School. She teaches Group Dynamics at Lesley University and has a private practice in Cambridge MA. She has worked in college counseling and human services and has extensive experience working with diverse client populations, including veterans, individuals with severe psychiatric disabilities, neurodiverse adults, students, and cultural minorities. Her clinical interest is identity-based approaches to therapy.
Anaïs received her master’s in occupational therapy from Tufts University. She has experience working in schools, with children from kindergarten to high school, and leading psycho-educational groups in the in-patient mental health setting. Anaïs is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion group leader, leading groups focused on identity, healing, and social justice. She is a member of NSGP’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. Her areas of interest include inclusive virtual communities.
SCHEDULE
Sunday January 22, 2023, 9:00am-3:00 pm, On Zoom
Option A: Special Interest Group with Julie Anderson PhD (Day 1)
Option B: General Experiential Group with Farooq Mohyuddin, MD
Saturday, April 29, 2023, 9:00 am-3:00 pm, in Person - Boston
Option A: Special Interest Group with Julie Anderson PhD (Day 2)
Option C: Special Interest Group with, Sasha Watkins LCSW & Anaïs Lugo-Guercio, OT.
Please join us for a 2.5 day in-person and virtual hybrid Institute on April 27-29, 2023! The Ethics Presentation with Archandria Owens, PhD, Licensed Psychotherapist/Racial Equity Consultant, will be held virtually via Zoom on Thursday, April 27. Both in-person and livestreaming options will be available for the Keynote Presentation with Daisy Reese, LCSW, and Peter Cole, LCSW, as well as the breakout groups on April 28-29.
Participants can create their own Institute experience by selecting the presentations and/or breakout sessions they wish to attend “a la carte” style. Please indicate on the registration form whether you will be participating in-person or virtually. Reminders with links will be emailed to participants joining us virtually. Lunch will be provided to participants joining us in-person on Friday and Saturday and is included in the registration cost. We will meet in-person at the Norris Conference Centers – Houston Westchase located at 9990 Richmond Ave., Suite 102, Houston, TX 77042.
Up to 15 Continuing Education hours are available for Psychologist, LCSW, LMFT, LPC, and CGP licenses/certifications, including 3 ethics hours. Clinicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the Institute. Learn more.
Questions? Need help with registration? Contact admin@hgps.org
Friday, April 28, 2023 | 8:00 am-5:00 pm 6 CE credits available
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” Robert Frost
In any group, from families to political groups to spiritual communities, ruptures inevitably occur, causing distress and disruption. This is certainly true of therapy groups. During the course of this Institute, participants will learn how to recognize and address ruptures and facilitating repair. An underlying element of almost all group therapy ruptures are the Enduring Relational Themes that are evoked in the current interaction. Working with repair provides the group therapist an opportunity to explore these Enduring Relational Themes.
Through the use of both didactic and experiential learning, you will learn to:
Identity both subtle and overt ruptures in the group
Slow down the group process
Support all the “voices of the field”
Recognize the Repetitive and Healing Dimensions of group experience
Explore enduring rela8onal themes evoked with the rupture
Work with the group therapist’s own feelings and countertransference to help facilitate repair
Enacting Racial Justice Through the Exploration of Diversity, Bias, and Our Lived Narratives
Thursday, April 27, 2023 | 6:00-9:00 pm 3 Ethics CE credits available
Bias “I don’t want to make anyone uncomfortable.” “My clients are not paying to hear my opinions/my concerns.” “You’re just not supposed to talk about race.”
We are often so much more acquainted with the reasons not to talk about race, that we are not as well-versed in the life-affirming reasons that we need to be naming it. It is often personally uncomfortable or objectionable in some way which leads many to not bring race into their professional realm. This includes mental health professionals. Race discussions in the therapy room are often relegated to a demographics question on intake paperwork or selectively spoken to if we make some assumption that race might be an issue for a particular client. What is often not considered is the fact that our ethics codes governing our practice require our active inquiry, advocacy, and responsibility around racial issues. Come ready for an educational process around race, but much more, come expectant for space to deeply explore our own narratives around race and how they create opportunities and/or barriers to deepening our clinical, and personal, engagement with racial justice.
If cost is a barrier to participation, please contact Ramsha Momin at ramsha.sw@gmail.com.
Online Registration Please note that this site is best viewed on a laptop/desktop using the current version of Chrome or Firefox. Need help with registration? Contact admin@hgps.org.
Agency Registration We invite agencies to join the Institute and offer a discount when 3 or more people from an agency attend. Please email admin@hgps.org to register.
HGPS follows the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council rules for acceptable continuing education for continuing education providers. The Council oversees Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists, Texas State Board of Examiners of Licensed Professional Counselors, Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, and Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners. While the Council no longer pre-approves or regulates continuing education providers and programs, our continuing education credits are accepted by the Council.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
