STUDY —
Social Therapy 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 Therapy 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.