67th Annual Conference

Thursday, February 25

Morning Workshops

10:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.

Workshop 8

So You Never Gave a Workshop: Banishing Professional Stage Fright and Creating New Possibilities

Chair:                

Phyllis Cohen, Ph.D., Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA, Private Practice & Blanton Peale Institute, New York, New York

This workshop will define individual needs and identify resistances that have interfered with acting as a workshop leader. Participants will be aided in creating sample presentations based on personal strengths, passions and professional knowledge, thereby enabling resolution of earlier blocks. Further learning will occur through role-playing and discussion of successful workshops.

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Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Select a topic to present that both excites yet feels comfortable.
2. Create a workshop through understanding the mechanics of building from a title to a rich, interactive presentation.
3. Identify those countertransference feelings that have inhibited them in the past and have increased confidence in their present abilities to perform.
 

Course References:

Kersting, K. (2003). What exactly is creativity? Monitor on Psychology, November (pp. 40-51).

Kolodny, S. (2000). The captive muse: On creativity and its inhibition. Psychosocial Press.

Kottler, J.A., Carlson, J. (2004). American Shaman. Chapter 6, Brunner-Routledge, New York and Hove, (pp. 93-111).