Enter the Brave: Exploring Courage through Storytelling, Improv and Creative Arts

Facilitators:  Bobbi Kidder, BA, MA, RDT, and Kriya Kaping, BA, MA
Read more about our Instructors/Facilitators here.

Date: September 13-14, 2024
Hours: Friday: 6:00 – 9:00 pm and Saturday 9:00 am – 12:00 pm PST
Location:  Online via Zoom
CEs: 6
Clock Hours: 6​
Cost: $199.00

Students join Friday for an evening that includes the gift of your story with activities and improv games that promote confidence and community. We continue on Saturday morning as we engage in playful and informative action methods that lead to bringing forward an​d​ developing brave personal narratives.

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​​​the Brave: Identify and explore courageous options.​

When you are being brave, accessing courage as part of daily life, then you recognize options when you need them! In this online workshop participants will learn how the tools found in improvisation, storytelling and creative arts therapies can help in embracing an abundant life – discovering the seeds of resiliency as each person connects with their own story and each other.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify: Participants will find in Jungian theory the “center of awareness” and be able to express their lived experience found in somatic cues
2. Explore: The group members will share their own “hero’s journey” starting with what physician and therapist Russ Harris calls “myth of self-belief” through the extraction of the “exceptional narrative” found in Narrative Therapy (White/Epson) practices.
3. Discover courage: Group participants will find in Virginia Satir’s change model the transformative processes that lead to the courage to act. That action can transform, and “brave” is the result.
4. Choosing Options: Joseph Campbell’s original hero’s journey starts with the call. Participants discus stepping into the call – the beginning of the journey.
5. Respond to Options: As the journey progresses, participants explore the nature of starting over – experiencing challenges and temptations, as Maureen Murdock called them and being willing to start over; to return to the call.
6. Share: Participants will share their stories, examining the Natalie Rogers model for community-building: collaborating and sharing for healing and social change.

Cancellation Policy: We require cancellation notification at least 2 weeks prior to the workshop date in order to use your registration fee towards a future workshop. No refunds will be given. read more…

School Counselor/Teacher (OSPI) Approved by the Washington State Office of Public Instruction as a “Washington State approved clock hour offering workshop.”

This workshop offers 4 CEs for Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists and Licensed Social Workers.

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 & Expressive Arts Institute is a NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider ™,
ACEP No. 7014.