Trainer Spotlight

Mario Cossa

Delighted to be joining online!

I first heard about the Therapeutic Spiral decades ago when a colleague attended a workshop at an ASGPP conference led by this woman named Kate and her friend Mimi. They presented a thing called the TSIRA and used Barbie Dolls to illustrate the various roles. As my colleague explained what she had learned I began to see how this internal role map had significant application for the work we were doing in New Hampshire with adolescents, whether trauma survivors or not. I decided to learn more about this Therapeutic Spiral thing and the rest, as they say, as history.

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Souldrama

Reflections from Blue Mountain Retreat – Psychodrama Intensive

This workshop is filled but you may contact us to get on the waiting list .

Excerpt from Behind the Scenes at Laurel Psychodrama Training Institute (BHS-LPTI), Spring 2022 Edition

Notes from Cathy: Emerging from Covid Isolation into Healing Connection at the 2022 LPTI Psychodrama Intensive

Twelve participants joined guest trainer, Linda Ciotola, trained auxiliary ego, Will Halm, and me to co-create the LPTI Psychodrama Intensive, March 10-14. After having to cancel last year, the team was excited to be able to meet in person at Blue Mountain Retreat Center in Western Maryland. Our host, Blue Mountain proprietor, chef extraordinaire and massage therapist, Beth Ehrhardt, provided all the comforts of home and more–delicious, nutritious family-style meals, relaxing facilities and grounds, and on-request massage therapy sessions.

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Happy 101st birthday psychodrama !

Happy 101st birthday psychodrama !

 

Honoring the ‘front line’ – “Shining Thru”

Dear Readers ,
This week there is something to listen to rather than to read . My dear friend Alison Gatwood who spent decades teaching music to thousands of students in school (as well as private piano lessons – it was thru taking private piano lessons with her that we met and became friends ) composed a song called “Shining Through” 25 years ago to celebrate my husband Joe and my 25 th wedding anniversary . After hearing of his work as Health Officer & EMS Medical Director during this pandemic she re-worked that song to honor him and thank him and other of our family members -and all those on the ‘front lines’- for their service and sacrifice.

Coping Through Hard Times

This week I am posting this excellent source of info and inspiration from my dear friend and colleague from Maine , Kathy Amsden . Kathy is a licensed social worker and certified psychodramatist as well as a gifted singer / songwriter . She works in the field of home hospice and palliative care . If you are interested in obtaining one of a remaining handful of CDs of her album “Awakening”, contact me by email and I will see what I can do 😊Blessings of health , peace , serenity and love to all , Linda

 

The Sleeping/Awakening Child

This poem was one I read recently as part of an online workshop sponsored by The Therapeutic Spiral tm (of which I am a trainer) This workshop brought together professionals from across the states and around the world to share our strengths and vulnerabilities in this very challenging time.

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Weekly Blog: Give yourself an immunity boost.

[This is for informational purposes only – just like everything on this website – and not intended to prevent, treat or cure any disease.  Always be sure to consult your licensed healthcare provider and / or pharmacist.]

If you read last week’s blog on putting the Serenity Prayer into Action then you are already boosting your immune system.  In case you missed it click here.

Since stress impairs the efficacy of the immune system it is highly important to help minimize and / or counter the effects of stress on the immune system.  Please review and practice the suggestions from last week’s blog.

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The Healing Power of Arts

Recent research regarding the healing power of the arts reveals how deeply the arts can affect us in a positive way.

My personal background includes writing “poetry” at age 8 and beyond to express what was unsafe and reveal what was otherwise repressed; my years in dance and theatre provided outlets for my body and voice to express what otherwise could not be said; hours at the piano and coloring “in the lines” and painting “by number” provided safe “containers” for feelings that were unprocessed.  Those who know me have often heard me say, “The arts and God’s grace saved me”.

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