STUDY —
Social Therapeutic Group Study Program
Group leaders, educators, psychotherapists, mental health workers, counselors and coaches, performance activists, organizational and business leaders, health care professionals, body workers, and more, are welcomed into a year-long study program in the practice & foundations of social therapy. For most, it is an opportunity to advance their respective practices by exploring a group-based, non-diagnostic, playfully philosophical, performatory approach to human development.
The Social Therapeutic Group Study Program consists of weekly observation of a specific social therapy group, a biweekly group meeting/discussion led by program leader, Rachel Mickenberg, and a biweekly study group with Janet Wootten, to discuss foundational concepts of social therapeutic practice as developed by Institute co-founders Fred Newman and Lois Holzman, and advanced by practitioners in the US and in grassroots practices, worldwide.
As study advances, program participants are assigned as group co-leaders in a (virtual) social therapy group, which may include a Developing Across Borders international group, a Creating Our Mental Health community group, and/or a short-term group for patients and caregivers grappling with dementia and illness.