GROUPS
Make meaning out of your physically or emotionally challenging experience. Find your voice... explore, observe, transform.
Healing Power of Performance Art
Saturday, 12/3/11 or 1/14/12 10am - 4pm
Be the "hero" of your unique dramatic tale. Write and share your own story of loss, survival and hope in this full-day workshop. How empowering to initiate your own journey through physical and emotional trauma towards recovery. Facilitator: Susan Chase, M.Ed., playwright and performer
Be the "hero" of your unique dramatic tale. Write and share your own story of loss, survival and hope in this full-day workshop. How empowering to initiate your own journey through physical and emotional trauma towards recovery. Facilitator: Susan Chase, M.Ed., playwright and performer
Visual Voices: Art Therapy
Saturday, 1/21/12, 1-5pm
Break through all the talk and honor your experience by creating a personal totem. This creative process will provide profound insights towards self-discovery. No art experience is necessary and all materials will be provided. All ages welcome. Facilitator:
Renee Bures, MSW, ATR Registered Art Therapist
Break through all the talk and honor your experience by creating a personal totem. This creative process will provide profound insights towards self-discovery. No art experience is necessary and all materials will be provided. All ages welcome. Facilitator:
Renee Bures, MSW, ATR Registered Art Therapist
Yoga as
Cancer Support
Saturdays beginning 1/15/12
This 6-week Yoga series will promote the healing of your mind, body and spirit. Relaxation techniques, breathing exercises, and gentle movements will improve overall strength, increase energy and help you cope with stress. No experience necessary. Facilitator: John Muraco, MAT Certified Yoga Instructor for individuals living with cancer
This 6-week Yoga series will promote the healing of your mind, body and spirit. Relaxation techniques, breathing exercises, and gentle movements will improve overall strength, increase energy and help you cope with stress. No experience necessary. Facilitator: John Muraco, MAT Certified Yoga Instructor for individuals living with cancer
Writing Sideways:
A New Perspective
Saturday 1/28/12, 1-4pm Stimulating prompts will excavate your story in this afternoon expressive writing workshop. Seize this opportunity to release and illuminate your triumphs and adversities, then bear witness to others experiences if you chose to share.
Facilitator: Erica Flesch, Writer, Poet
Facilitator: Erica Flesch, Writer, Poet
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MUSIC THERAPY
Tuesdays ongoing 2010
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
$23/session or $75/month (save 20%)
To reserve your space, visit our Registration page or call Renee Bures at 215-262-4443. For more information about Music Therapy, contact Rachael Bond at rbond@aostudio.org or 215-630-3017
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
$23/session or $75/month (save 20%)
To reserve your space, visit our Registration page or call Renee Bures at 215-262-4443. For more information about Music Therapy, contact Rachael Bond at rbond@aostudio.org or 215-630-3017
EXPRESSIVE WRITING
WRITING SIDEWAYS
A unique exploration of creative writing combined with the opportunity to laugh, share and embrace your inner quirkiness. Whimsical or irreverent, but always engaging, Erica Flesch facilitates with inimitable style.
Mondays ongoing 2010
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
$20/session
To reserve your space, visit our Registration page or call Renee Bures @ 215-262-4443.
A unique exploration of creative writing combined with the opportunity to laugh, share and embrace your inner quirkiness. Whimsical or irreverent, but always engaging, Erica Flesch facilitates with inimitable style.
Mondays ongoing 2010
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
$20/session
To reserve your space, visit our Registration page or call Renee Bures @ 215-262-4443.
ART THERAPY
Group Art Therapy is an excellent modality in which to engage children, teens and adults. Positive outcomes for a wide variety of populations and presenting concerns are achieved through therapeutic expression. The following are just a few of the goals that can be attained through group work in art therapy:
To schedule group sessions or for more information, please visit our Registration page or call Renee Bures at 215-262-4443.
- Reinforcing recovery and building community with individuals experiencing mental health issues
- Practicing conflict resolution and communication skills for teens
- Healthy relationship, conflict resolution and assertiveness training for teens and parents
- Building trust, coping with loss and transition for individuals in bereavement
To schedule group sessions or for more information, please visit our Registration page or call Renee Bures at 215-262-4443.
WOMEN'S GRACE
"Its the human experience to have loss, loss of all different forms," reminds Susie Faden. She combines many years of hospice care and grief/loss group facilitation with a genuinely warm presence. She draws you into a refreshing space of compassion in such a way that you feel like its her privilege to honor your unique experience. "How is it that we have the capacity to feel grace for another when they suffer, but are unable to do the same for ourselves?" she asks, and invites you to "explore together how to live more fully while living with grief.
Four Wednesdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. beginning October 6, 2010
To reserve your space or for more information, please visit our Registration page or call Renee Bures at 215-262-4443.
Four Wednesdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. beginning October 6, 2010
To reserve your space or for more information, please visit our Registration page or call Renee Bures at 215-262-4443.