PA502 – Basic Facilitation Skills

Instructor: Nancy Scherlong, CJT

This course teaches basic facilitation skills, but it’s more than just skill-building. It also delves into the philosophy of facilitation, including the orientation of service, when and how a facilitator utilizes her/his own self in process work, the role of supervision and the use of the journal in self- or peer-supervision, and numerous tips of the trade. Guest appearances by Kay Adams, offering on-line facilitation skills. Limited to CJF trainees, unless prior permission of instructor is granted.
CEUs Available.
CJF Required Class

Required Text: None, Internet Reading Only

This class is for trainees who have been in the program for at least 1 year. Trainees need to have completed the ICT and have taught at least 1 JTTS Workshop prior to taking this class.

PD514 – Expressive Writing: Foundations of Practice

Instructor: Kathleen Adams

The inaugural book in Kay Adams’ ten-volume expressive writing series articulates nine approaches to therapeutic writing that each represents the foundations of standards-based practice in the field. This visionary yet entirely pragmatic work offers perspectives and voices of eight master teachers on using therapeutic writing for developing emotional intelligence, assimilating and integrating acquired wisdom, and actualizing potential–key components for healing, growth, and change.
CEUs Available.
CJF – Flex Elective

Required Text: : Expressive Writing, Foundations of Practice by Kathleen Adams, Editor. Rowman & Littlefield

TW537 – The Write Way to Wellness

Instructor: Nancy Scherlong, CJT

Living a balanced and healthy life begins with self-awareness and empowerment. Write Way to Wellness, based on Kay Adams’ workbook, provides a unique and foundational approach that creates the opening to this inner wisdom. Through focused journaling techniques and shared discussions, this course weaves writing, drawing and guided imagery in a fluid and engaging presentation. Together, we will explore what it means to live fully in body, mind, emotion, and spirit.
CEUs Available.
CJF – TW Elective

Required Text: Write Way to Wellness: A Workbook for Healing and Change with companion CD by Kathleen Adams, available in our BOOKSTORE.

TW481: Dialogues

Instructor: Hanna Merin, CJF

In this eight-week course, we will learn how to use dialogue technique as a tool to unfold and enlighten our thinking patterns, language, relationships, connections, and communication. Writing, recalling, and observing dialogues is a great way to re-think, generate ideas, create awareness. learn, listen, and explore. We will use dialogues from literature, theater and poetry as a springboard to recall and retell internal and external conversations we had and have.

Paolo Pereira said that “dialogue is an act of creation – people cannot say a word of truth when they are alone”. Let us have our inner self and embark on a fascinating journey with the help of the “Swiss army knife of the journal toolbox.”*

*Adams, K. (1990), Journal to the Self, Grand Central Publishing, New York, NY

CEUs NOT Available.
CJF – TW Elective

Required Text: None.

TW502: From Endings to New Beginnings: Poetry as a Guide Through Life Transitions

Instructor: Elaine Brooks

Are you experiencing a life transition? Perhaps you are changing jobs, beginning or ending a relationship, retiring, or there is a significant change in your health. Maybe you feel unsettled, know that it’s time for a change and are wondering what’s next. Transitions can also be disorienting as they ask us to examine our perception of ourselves and our place in the world. They are also wonderful opportunities for growth. In this class you will learn about transition theory. You will also use poetry to identify and follow the phases of a personal transition, explore unique skills and values to support you, and leave with an understanding of how to navigate your transitions. You will also have a collection of poems for your personal and professional use.
CEUs Not Available.
CJF – TW Elective

Required Text: None. Internet resources.

TW540: Recon Mission

Instructor: Anjana Deshpande, CJT

This course is based on an 18-month long workshop conducted for Vietnam War veterans. In this experiential course, facilitators will learn about exercises developed specifically for trauma survivors and will be able to apply them to the population of their choice. This course has been developed to assist trauma survivors do a “Recon” of their post trauma emotional landscape through writing, and gain mastery and control over it. Participants will also gain an understanding of how therapeutic writing, neuroplasticity and narrative therapy come together to create a strong base for recovery.
CEUs Available.
CJF – TW Elective

Required Text: None. Internet resources.