POETRY THERAPY: TOWARD SELF KNOWLEDGE, PART I
A 3-Day Training Seminar for Helping Professionals
with Sherry Reiter, PhD, PTR/MS
Do you want to have a full understanding of how poetry therapy works? Do you want to experience the range of special techniques that are currently used in the field today? This intensive provides a solid foundation in bibliotherapy theory and experiential process. In addition, you'll walk away with an anthology of some of the most powerful poems or "poetry prescriptions" that you can get "over the counter"!

POETRY THERAPY: TOWARD SELF KNOWLEDGE, PART II
Toward Understanding Self and Others:
Working with Special Populations

Every helping professional knows that our clients come to us with a multitude of special situations and disorders. Reading, writing, and poetry provide a non-judgmental, gentle approach that is dynamic and engaging for individuals and groups. This is an advanced experiential 4-day seminar.

PART II



POETRY THERAPY: TOWARD SELF KNOWLEDGE PART I
3-Day Training Seminar for Helping Professionals
with Sherry Reiter, PhD, PTR/MS
Dates to be announced

This intensive provides a solid foundation in bibliotherapy theory and experiential process. In addition, you'll walk away with an anthology of some of the most powerful poems or "poetry prescriptions" that you can get "over the counter"!

Poetry Therapy: Towards Self-Knowledge I  is a three-day intensive seminar for helping professionals facilitated by Sherry Reiter. It is largely experiential with some lecture and discussion about the work as we are doing it. In poetry therapy, the written word is honored as a way to attain greater knowledge of self and others. Writing taps the creative self, waking us to new consciousness, new information and new possibilities for healing and "wholing." Participants will learn the basic steps for facilitating a poetry therapy group. We will also note why particular poems are especially successful with particular populations. Participants will experience different models and techniques of poetry therapy. The seminar will cover:
1) the history of poetry therapy;
2) the four basic ways that poetry therapy is practiced today;
3) basic theories about why/how poetry therapy works.
4) psychological mechanisms - egs.: resistance, projection, transference, etc.
The best way to understand poetry therapy is to experience it in a safe, comfortable atmosphere. Although this seminar is educational in nature, much of our time is spent doing actual, not simulated poetry therapy. The importance of working in a group process is stressed. "Equal talking time" is recommended so that each person gets a chance to speak. While you will be writing and discovering your own feelings through writing, you will also be learning about others' feelings in the group.

This intensive seminar has been taught at the New School for Social Research and at Hofstra University for the past twenty years. Now it is offered to professionals who wish to enhance their clinical skills with this dynamic tool.



COST: $360.00

DATES and LOCATION: To be announced

TO REGISTER: Contact Sherry Reiter at The Creative "Righting" Center: Phone 718/998-4572 or E-mail sherryreiter@yahoo.com
    The Creative "Righting" Center, directed by Sherry Reiter, PhD, welcomes persons from all walks of life who wish to use the written and spoken word for healing and personal growth. Sherry is a Certified Social Worker, a Mentor/Supervisor (NAPT approved), and an RDT/BCT(Board Certified Trainer) in Drama Therapy. These seminar hours are equivalent to 18 hours toward certification/registration in poetry therapy and may also be used to meet alternative training requirements of drama therapy.

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POETRY THERAPY: TOWARD SELF KNOWLEDGE PART II
Towards Understanding Self and Others:
Working With Special Populations


Every helping professional knows that our clients come to us with a multitude of special situations and disorders. Reading, writing, and poetry provide a non-judgmental, gentle approach that is dynamic and engaging for individuals and groups. This is an advanced experiential 4-day seminar demonstrating poetry therapy techniques and literature that can be applied to persons who are challenged by:

DATES AND LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED.

INFORMATION: If you are interested in this seminar, please contact Dr. Reiter at sherryreiter@yahoo.com.
    The Creative "Righting" Center, directed by Sherry Reiter, PhD, welcomes persons from all walks of life who wish to use the written and spoken word for healing and personal growth. Sherry is a Certified Social Worker, a Mentor/Supervisor (NAPT approved), and an RDT/BCT(Board Certified Trainer) in Drama Therapy. These seminar hours are equivalent to 26 hours toward certification/registration in poetry therapy and may also be used to meet alternative training requirements of drama therapy. The breakdown of hours is approximately as follows: 18 peer group hours, 5 didactic hours, 3 hours of group supervision.

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Past Seminars:


Maine retreat

THE CREATIVE THERAPIST: HEALING THERAPIES IN THE EXPRESSIVE ARTS

Poetry, Story, Drama, Sandtray and Play Therapies
All in One Vacation Workshop
with Sherry Reiter, PhD, PTR/MS and Sue Carroll Duffy, Psy.D., RTP-S
August 10-14, 2009

Learn: Designed for the helping professional, this series of workshops will encourage self-exploration and personal renewal as you learn creative expressive therapies to use with your hard to reach clients. CEU hours are available for those seeking Registration as a Poetry Therapist, Drama Therapist and Play Therapist as well as most helping professionals.

Relax: The sessions end by 3 PM to provide time for reflection, relaxation and exploration along the beautiful and remote Maine coastline. Go whale watching, take a ferry to a Canadian Island and bike out to a lighthouse to watch sea life, sail to Canada for European dining, kayak on a lake or Passamaquoddy Bay, hike miles of remote trails along the coast, visit West Quoddy Head Light House, enjoy a sunset sail, visit artist studios. By The Sea Seminars will assist you to find accommodations at Bed and Breakfasts in the area.

Maine coastWorkshop Choices (workshops limited to 20 participants)

  • Monday thru Wednesday: Poetry Therapy with Sherry Reiter, Ph.D. (15 CEUs) Cost: $375.00

  • Thursday: Drama Therapy with Sherry Reiter, Ph.D. (5 CEUs) Cost: $125.00

  • Friday: Moving Stories: An Integration of Story, Sandtray and Play Therapy with Sue Carroll Duffy, Psy.D. RPT-S (5 CEUs) Cost $125.00
COST: Choose individual workshops (see prices above) OR
come for the whole week and save $130.00

DATES
: August 10-14, 2009

LOCATION: In the beautiful and rural coastal town of Eastport, Maine

MORE INFORMATION: Download an event flyer for complete details

TO REGISTER:
Contact By the Sea Seminars at 207-853-2774, by email at bythesea@roadrunner.com, or on the web at http://www.bytheseaseminars.com

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THE CAPE COD WRITING RETREAT
with Sherry Reiter and Ann Forcier
August 25-29, 2008

Calling all lovers of the spoken and written word to a celebration of word, song, and spirit.

Join Sherry Reiter and Ann Forcier, both writers who are trained in the use of writing for personal growth and transformation. Daily poet-walks to sites of exquisite beauty. Write and share your spontaneous creations. In a special event, guest musician Laura Cayer will transform your poetry to music on the spot!

Don't miss this amazing journey that will rejuvenate you and kindle your creative imagination.

Cliffs that rise a thousand feet without a break,
Lakes that stretch a hundred miles without a wave,
Sand that are white through all the year, without a stain,
Pine-tree woods, winter and summer, ever green,
Streams that forever flow and flow without a pause,
Trees that for twenty thousand years your vows have kept,
You have suddenly healed the pain of a traveler’s heart.

Chang Fang Shen (4th century)

Sherry Reiter, PhD, PTR/MS is Director of The Creative "Righting" Center in New York City. Ann Forcier, LMHC, PTR, is a writer and counselor in Orange, Massachusetts. For more info, call Sherry at 718-998-4572 or e-mail her: sherryreiter@yahoo.com

COST:
Seminar, shared room and board:
Early Bird Rate, before June 1: $665.00
Registration after June 1:    $695.00

Seminar, private room and board:
Early Bird Rate, before June 1: $820.00
Registration after June 1:    $850.00


DATES: Monday, August 25 - Friday, August 29, 2008

LOCATION: Cape Cod, Massachusetts

    The Creative "Righting" Center, directed by Sherry Reiter, PhD, welcomes persons from all walks of life who wish to use the written and spoken word for healing and personal growth. Sherry is a Certified Social Worker, a Mentor/Supervisor (NAPT approved), and an RDT/BCT(Board Certified Trainer) in Drama Therapy. These seminar hours may be used to meet Alternative Training requirements as delineated by NADT, or 27 hours toward NAPT certification/registration.

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