Adventures in Teaching and Counseling in collaboration with The American Group Psychotherapy Association is the proud recipient of a Youth Recovery and Resiliency Grant from the Red Cross 9/11 Liberty Disaster Relief Fund. The grant will enable us to work with teachers, counselors and students in New York school districts impacted by the events of 9/11. Our work will continue to focus on direct service to school counselors and school children dealing with trauma, conflict and emotional fatigue.

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P8-67F07: The Dynamics of Teaching, Learning and Counseling in Groups:
Group Leadership for Educators

Description: Best practices and research in group dynamics and group leadership can strengthen the role of a teacher and counselor as group leader. Participants develop group leadership skills and intervention strategies to maximize student achievement and cooperation in classroom and counseling groups. Participants reflect on social and emotional group processes that impact on teaching. They will learn to effectively use intense feelings stimulated when teaching and counseling in groups. (Grades 4-12)

10 Tuesdays. October 16-December 18, 2007
4:30-7:45pm

Instructor: Dr. Judith Charnet
Location: Queens High School of Teaching, Glen Oaks Campus
74-20 Commonwealth Blvd.
Glen Oaks, NY
Fees: $300.

The Use of School Counseling Groups and the Classroom to Address Children's Needs:
Applications of Group Dynamics and Hellinger's Family Constellation Therapy to Stimulate Intellectual,
Social and Emotional Development in School Settings.

Description: Deep familial love and loyalty may compel children to unknowingly attempt to ease others. suffering or complete unfinished family business that is not their own. Such attempts often play out in the school setting in their interactions with teachers counselors and peers.

Through family constellation work and focus on group dynamics, a class or counseling group can be helped to connect with the family unconscious and access its power to heal generations of destructive patterns.

These patterns include: guilt, anger, depression, illness, substance abuse, and failure which children carry forward into their school lives. Participants in this workshop will have opportunities to present cases and discover applications of group dynamics and Hellinger's work to the children, classes and groups they find most challenging.

Session One: An Introduction
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
4:30-6:30pm
Instructors: Ms. Cristina Casanova and Dr. Toby Chuah Feinson
Location: 154 West 70th St. #10A
New York, NY 10023
Fee: $70.

Session Two: Advanced Class
Saturday, October 27, 2007
9am-3:30pm
Instructors: Ms. Cristina Casanova and Dr. Toby Chuah Feinson
Location: 154 West 70th St. #10A
New York, NY 10023
Fee: $165.

P13-97F07: Resolving Conflict and Addressing Maladaptive Behaviors In School Groups Using Children's Literature (K-5th grades)

Description: Children's literature provides a safe and effective vehiclethrough which elementary school children K-5th grade can work effectively in groups to examine conflict and maladaptive behaviors without feeling threatened and defensive. Best practices for leading groups and stimulating fruitful and dynamic dialogues in the face of tension and resistance will be shared. Developmental limitations will be examined. Interventions using children's literature in groups will be developed for fostering cooperation, communication, emotional expression, appreciation for diversity and constructive use of conflict in school groups. Participants will write a children's story to address a specific classroom or counseling group dilemma they are challenged by currently.

Register beginning July 23, 2007 by calling (201)410-5839 or Contact Us Online
Classes without a .P. number do NOT carry .P. credits and are for skill enhancement only.