5 Community Events Sponsored by UCLArts and Healing

Happy Endings: Rewriting Your Life

Date:  4 Monday evenings – 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2

Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm 

Program Description:

Personal experiences and events that have held us back in our lives can be changed by re-writing them.  As far as the brain is concerned, imagined behavior is real. Writing will be used as a vehicle for transforming negative life scripts into positive ones. 

Location:

Simms/Mann Health and Wellness Center
Venice Family Clinic [note: this is different from the main site in Venice]
2509 Pico Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90405

Fee: 

Without CEUs:  $50 for all four sessions.

With CEUs from the Board of Behavioral Sciences:  $75.00 for four sessions. 

Registration Instructions:  Register at www.uclartsandhealing.net.  Please note that there are separate registration sites for the Monday evening series with or without CEUs.

Instructor:  Rachel Ballon, Ph.D., M.F.T. psychotherapist and international writing consultant

Sponsor: UCLArts and Healing

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Memories to Memoirs:  Leaving Your legacy

Memories of everything that has ever happened to you are stored in your unconscious. There are hundreds of stories residing inside you.  These stories are your identity.

Using combined techniques of relaxation, visualization, and Fast Flow Writing™ to access emotions, sensory memories, and life experiences, Dr. Ballon will help participants transform their memories into memoirs. 

Dr. Ballon brings a unique expertise and experience as an international writing consultant and psychotherapist in facilitating self-exploration, self-discovery, and a powerfully authentic voice in writing.

Each workshop will involve a combination of writing, sharing, and receiving feedback . Sharing what one has written can be as cathartic for the reader as the listener; although sharing is optional. No writing experience is necessary.

Date:  4 Tuesday afternoons – 10/13, 10/20, 10/27, 11/3

Time: 12:30 - 2:30 pm 

Location:

"Girls in Action Room" at the YWCA/Westside-Santa Monica, 2019 14th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405-1600.

Fee: 

Without CEUs:  $50 for all four sessions.

With CEUs from the Board of Behavioral Sciences: $75.00 for four sessions. 

Registration Instructions:  Register at www.uclartsandhealing.net.  Please note that there are separate registration sites for the Tuesday daytime series with and without CEUs.

Instructor:  Rachel Ballon, PhD, MFT,  licensed psychotherapist and international writing consultant.

Sponsor: UCLArts and Healing

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Music for the Soul

Participants will experience the power of music in restoring harmony and balance in their lives. The program includes drumming, chanting, playing instruments used in meditative work, art-making, and creating a meditative recording to take home, as part of the healing journey. 

Date:  Sunday, November 1

12:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Instructors:  Ron Borczon, MM, MT-BC, music therapist and Founding Director of the music therapy department at California State University, Northridge (CSUN).  Helen G. Dolas, MS, MT-BC , music therapist and Founding Director of Arts & Services for Disabled, Inc.

Location: Cultural Education Center for the Arts, 3827 W. Rosecrans Ave., Hawthorne, CA 90250. 310.970.9945.

Fees:

Without CMTEs or CEUs:  $60

With CMTEs or CEUs from the Board of Behavioral Sciences:  $80

Registration Instructions:  Register at www.uclartsandhealing.net.  Please note that there is a separate registration site for those who wish to  have CMTEs or CEUs.
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Sponsor: UCLArts and Healing

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Sustainable Movement 24/7:  Breaking Barriers of Self-Limitation

The less we move, the more limited we become. When one body part is moving, its counterpart should support the movement in a counterbalanced way, not in a counterproductive way.  Participants will engage in movement sequences ‒ based in principles of dance, rhythmic gymnastics, and physical therapy ‒  designed to move the body in a variety of directions while sustaining the muscles that need to support the movement; consequently, the movements are challenging yet safe. And all the elements that lead to body stability can be addressed in a single exercise.

Date and Time: 

Introductory Workshop – Mon. 11/9,  7:00-9:00 pm 

3-Part Follow-up Workshop – Mon. 11/16, Wed. 11/18, and Mon. 11/23,  7:00 - 9:00 pm 

Location:

Simms/Mann Health and Wellness Center
Venice Family Clinic  [note: this is diff erent from the main site in Venice]
2509 Pico Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90405

Fees:  $20 for Introductory Workshop. 

$90 for 3-Part Follow-up Workshop; $45 for students. 

Registration Instructions:  Register at www.uclartsandhealing.net.  Please note that there is a separate registration site for students who wish to enroll in the 3-Part Follow-Up Workshop.

Sponsor:  UCLArts and Healing

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In Another's Shoes:  Developing Empathy through Dramatic Imagination

Assuming a role that is not our own engages our imagination: We begin to entertain clues about what it might be like to be someone else. This workshop will introduce an experiential practice that is easy and fun and will include more meaningful explorations that occur in everyday life and relationships. 

Date:  Thursday, December 10, 2009

Time: 7:15 - 9:15 pm 

Location:

Simms/Mann Health and Wellness Center
Venice Family Clinic [note: this is different from the main site in Venice]
2509 Pico Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90405

Fee: 

Without CEUs:  $20

With 2 CEUs from the Board of Behavioral Sciences: $30 

Registration Instructions:  Register at www.uclartsandhealing.net.  Please note that there are separate registration sites for the program with or without CEUs.

Instructors:  Adam Blatner, MD and Allee Blatner, leaders in the field of psychodrama

 

Sponsor: UCLArts and Healing