64th Annual Conference

Saturday, March 10

Afternoon Workshops

2:30-5:30 P.M.

Workshop 94

Return to the Kitchen Table of Your Past: Using Gestalt and Psychodrama Re-Imprinting in a Group Setting

Chair:

Anne Teachworth, M.A., CGT, DAPA, Director, Relationship Center of New Orleans, Metairie, Louisiana

Using Gestalt and Psychodrama, a volunteer will choose members of the group to role-play their childhood family members and the volunteer will role-play their Inner Child.  Using a corrective emotional experiential method, they will role-play the family once as it was and then once as they wished it had been.

experiential, didactic, demonstration, sharing of work experiences

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Administer and interpret the 10 question Psychogenetic Family of Origin Inquiry Test.

2. Uncover the unmet needs, ineffective patterns and unfinished business that exist as landmines in the transgenerational family system.

3. Set up the 5 rounds of Kitchen Table Psychodrama corrective emotional experiences that will reprogram positive solutions and new interactional patterns instead of the ineffective patterns have been inherited from the family of origin negative examples.

Course References:

1. Teachworth, A. (1977). Why We Pick The Mates We Do. New Orleans, Louisiana: Gestalt Institute Press.

2. Schutzenberger, A. (1990). The Ancestor Syndrome. Routledge, New York.

3. Schwartz, T. (2000). Clearing the Landmines of Marital Conflicts. Gestalt Review. New Jersey: Analytic Press.