Your One Wild & Precious Life

Date: 📆 Saturday Sept 19, 2026 

Time: 10:00am–2:00pm Pacific Time
Location: In Person (Seattle, WA location TBD)
Available CEs: 4
Facilitator: Bobbi Kidder, MA, RDT/BCT and Cleopatra Bertelsen, PhD, LMHC
Cost: $119.00

Registration Deadline: Wednesday Sept 16, 2026

What part of ourselves is awakened when we share the liminal space of uncertainty? This workshop, an introduction to the Self-Revelatory Theatre approach that is a hallmark of drama therapy, will begin to answer that question.

The theme and focus of the training is the life transitions that can shake us. We continue to acknowledge what is lost, wrestle with profound changes, and discover new perspectives and strengths. Grief plays its part as we name where we are in the process, as we find and share what we need to share.

The witnessing of these truths as filters fall away is the part of our drama therapy form that externalizes the internal and points a clear path toward connection and making the choices that need to be made.

“Those who will not slip beneath
the still surface on the well of grief
turning downward through its black water
to the place we cannot breathe
will never know the source from which we drink,
the secret water cold and clear,
nor find in the darkness glimmering
the small round coins
thrown by those
who wished for something else.”
~David Whyte

Learning objectives

1. Participants will be able to demonstrate understanding of externalizing the internal with a current multilayered personal issue.
2. Participants will strengthen the ability to witness with generativity.
3. Participants will gain an understanding of two drama therapy approaches: Self-Revelatory and Autobiographical.
4. Participants will gain an understanding of how personal expression and narrative is supported through enactment.

Required Materials

• TBD

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute Cancellation & Refund Policy

Earning Continuing Education Credits

To receive a CE Certificate for completion of this workshop, you must officially register, attend the workshop in its entirety and complete an evaluation form after the workshop. The evaluation form is emailed to you by the following Friday of the workshop. After completing & submitting the evaluation form, a CE Certificate will be emailed to you within 5-7 business days.

Who is eligible to receive CEs?

• Nationally: Approved NBCC Provider for Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Social Workers (you are responsible for confirming that your organization/state will accept NBCC credits.)
• New York Licensed Creative Arts Therapists (LCATs)
• Washington State School Counselor/Teacher (OSPI) Approved by the Washington State Office of Public Instruction as a “Washington State approved clock hour offering workshop.”
• If you are outside of Washington State, we advise that you check with your state licensing board to confirm that they accept NBCC Approved CEs. 

Northwest Creative and Expressive Arts Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0123.

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7104. Programs that do no qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.