About Red Well Theater Group
Red Well Theater Group is a group of Washington, D.C. psychotherapists that combines a love of theater with an understanding of group processes to illuminate the complexities of relationships and the universal need for mutual recognition. As therapists, we practice dynamic group therapy to help people make changes that lead to more fulfilling lives. As artists, we present theater to bring people into dialogue with one another. We approach each discipline as a healing art, more similar than different.
RWTG contributes to the professional development of group psychotherapists through educational presentations at local, national and international group therapy training conferences. For more information contact us at: www.redwelltheater.com
The Red Well Theater Group members attending the 14th Annual Boston-Threshold Conference will include Hallie Lovett, Liz Marsh, Yavar Moghimi, Rob Williams and Robert Schulte.
Faculty Biographies:
Claire Bacha, Ph.D., Mem. IGA is a therapist and group analyst in Manchester, England. She is a Training Analyst of the Institute of Group Analysis and one of the trainers on the Manchester Qualifying Course in Group Analysis. She is also a Training Member of the North West Institute of Dynamic Psychotherapy. She has published papers in Group Analysis and in Psychodynamic Practice, where she is also on the editorial board. Claire has worked in the NHS, in the voluntary sector and, presently, in private practice. Her Ph.D. is in sociology.
Richard Beck, LCSW, BCD, CGP, FAGPA is in private practice in New York City, New York with a specialty of working with psychological trauma. Richard is a past-president of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society; former member of the board of directors of the American Group Psychotherapy Association; is currently an active member of the Disaster/Trauma Task Force of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy and Group Process; is an Adjunct Professor at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service; and lectures nationally and internationally on psychological trauma as well as the toll it takes on the clinician.
Bonnie J. Buchele, Ph.D., DFAGPA, ABBP, CGP, is a former president and Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes, and immediate past Director of the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute. Her private practice includes group psychotherapy, individual psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. She has a longstanding interest in trauma and has published and taught internationally about the subject.
David Cameron PhD is a Psychologist, UKCP registered Psychotherapist and member of Metanoia Psychotherapy Institute London. David has worked in mental health for twenty-five years, spending some ten years working in residential democratic therapeutic communities for persons whose experiences were synonymous with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. David is currently Head of Research and Acting Manger of Primary Care Child, Adolescent and Drug outreach services of Threshold. David is an Associate Lecturer with Dublin City University Doctoral Psychotherapy programme and part-time Consultant Clinician with Dundalk Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre. David is published in the field of clinical commentary and specialist psychotherapy research. Special areas of interest include relational psychoanalysis, trauma, dissociative states of mind-psychosis and recovery. David maintains a small private psychotherapy practice in Belfast.
Patricia Doherty, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA is a psychologist in private practice in Brookline, MA where she works with individuals, couples, and groups. She is a Fellow in the American Group Psychotherapy Association, past President of the Boston Institute mfor Psychotherapy and current committee member for the Northeast Society for Group Psychotherapy. She is one of the founders of the Northern Ireland Group Psychotherapy Conference and current chair of the 2009 Program committee.
Sara Emerson, LICSW, CGP, FAGPA is in private practice in Cambridge MA working with adults in individual and group therapy. She is trained as a psychoanalyst. She is adjunct faculty teaching group therapy at Boston College and Simmons College Graduate Schools of Social Work. In addition to being a member of the Boston Threshold planning committee she has participated in 10 of the previous 11 conferences in Belfast.
Biggi Hofmann BSc, Dip CSBS, Dip Couns, Adv Dip Psychodrama Psychotherapy (BPA, UKCP) FHEA, is originally from Germany and has been living in Northern Ireland since 1980. Alongside working in the community and voluntary sector since 1999, she has developed her private practice providing short and long-term individual and group psychotherapy; individual and group supervision, workshops and weekend residentials. She is particularly interested in the transformative power of creativity and spirituality in the recovery from trauma. www.creativeencounter.co.uk.
Raman Kapur, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist who has specialized in individual and group psychotherapy during his 30 years of work in mental health. He has published his research and clinical work in peer reviewed journals and is C.E.O. of Threshold.
David Kennard is a clinical psychologist and group analyst working in adult mental health including severe mental illness, high security, and psychotherapy services. Following 25 years in the English National Health Service he was Head of Psychology at The Retreat, the pioneering Quaker hospital in York for 12 years. Following retirement from full time work he now provides supervision and staff support to individuals and organizations. David’s co-written and co-edited books include An Introduction to Therapeutic Communities (1983, 1998), A Workbook of Group Analytic interventions (1993), Experiences of Mental Health In-patient Care (2007) and Staff Support Groups in the Helping Professions (2009).
Debra Schwartz Kuhn, Ph.D. is a psychologist on Long Island, New York. She has been in private practice for 29 years and has led workshops for couples, parents, adolescents and mother/daughters throughout the
U.S. She has been a member of the American Academy of Psychotherapists for 30 years. Dr. Kuhn is a third generation therapist; her parents are both psychologists and her grandmother dispensed food, tea, and advice
from her kitchen table. She has been happily married for 26 years and has 2 daughters and a grandson.
Frank Liddy has worked in the community care voluntary mental health sector for some twenty-five years. At present he works for Threshold as the project manager of Chikara House, a supported housing therapeutic community in Belfast. Frank was the co-founding Director of the Belfast Mindfulness Centre. As an indigenous Belfast born practitioner he has been at the forefront of developing creative cross community mindfulness based initiatives to communities / groups traumatised by the Northern Ireland troubles. Frank studied mindfulness at the University of Wales and is a qualified integrative humanistic counsellor. Presently Frank teaches mindfulness through the life long learning programme at the Queen's University of Belfast and has also successfully delivered experiential and practice-based training programmes to mental health and allied professionals working in psychiatry, nursing, social work and the criminal justice system.
Hallie Lovett, Ph.D, CGP, has been a practitioner and teacher of psychotherapy in Washington, DC for over 30 years. Trained as a clinical psychologist, and working with individuals, couples and groups, she combines practice and theory from contemporary relational perspectives with ideas from varied spiritual traditions in her work with patients and supervisees. She is also Clinical Professor of Psychology at The George Washington University, co-founder of The Conversation Between the Arts and Psychotherapy in Washington, DC and on the faculty of The National Group Psychotherapy Institute.at the Washington School of Psychiatry. She is active in the American Academy of Psychotherapists, the American Group Psychotherapy Association and is a founding member of The Redwell Theater Group. 2011 marks her sixth Northern Ireland Group Psychotherapy Conference.
Debra Schwartz Kuhn, Ph.D. is a psychologist on Long Island, New York.
She has been in private practice for 29 years and has led workshops
for couples, parents, adolescents and mother/daughters throughout the
U.S. She has been a member of the American Academy of Psychotherapists
for 30 years. Dr. Kuhn is a third generation therapist; her parents
are both psychologists and her grandmother dispensed food, tea, and advice
from her kitchen table. She has been happily married for 26 years and
has 2 daughters and a grandson.
Liz Marsh, MSW is a clinical social worker and actor currently managing a residential substance abuse treatment program in Arlington, VA. Liz made her debut with Red Well Theater Group as a guest artist portraying Marcie in Dog Sees God at the AGPA Annual Meeting in 2011
Yavar Moghimi, M.D. is a psychiatrist, documentary film editor, actor and improvisation artist. He lives and works in Washington, D.C. Yavar made his acting debut with Red Well Theater Group as a guest artist, portraying Matt in Dog Sees God at the AGPA Annual Meeting in 2011.
Don Murphy, Ph.D, CGP has been a psychotherapist in Atlanta, Georgia for over 30 years, with a private practice devoted to individuals, couples and groups. Earlier professional roles included work as a Protestant clergy person, several years as a professor at Northern Illinois University and twelve years directing the university mental health clinic at the University of Georgia. . He is an active member of both The American Group Psychotherapy Association and The American Academy of Psychotherapists. Recently, he has become more consumed and delighted by his role as a grandfather.
Cecil A. Rice, Ph.D., CGP, DLFAGPA, spent most of the first thirty years of his life in Northern Ireland before moving to the States. He is a co-founder and President of the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy (www.bostoninstitute.org), a past President of the Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy and is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. He is a co-founder of the Boston-Threshold Group (http://northernirelandconference.com/). He has a private practice in group, individual and marital psychotherapy, in Needham, Massachusetts, USA. and has published widely on group psychotherapy including papers examining the after effect of civil war on group therapy practice in Northern Ireland. He co-edited the book: Leadership in a Changing World: Relational Perspectives on Groups and Their Leaders (2009).
Robert Schulte, MSW, CGP is a psychotherapist in private practice in
Alexandria, Virginia and the Founding Director of the Red Well Theater Group of
Washington, D.C. Bob serves on the
faculty of the Washington School of Psychiatry Group Psychotherapy Training
Program and is a clinical instructor for the George Washington University
Department of Psychiatry Group Training Program.
Rob Williams, MSW, CGP, is a member of the Red Well Theater Group (www.redwelltheater.com). An engineer for more than 20 years, Rob is now exploring his robust right brain through theatrical drama, creative web site designs (including RWTG), and mindfulness practice via Zen Buddhism. He is an adjunct professor of stress management strategies at American University and maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Washington, D.C.
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Workshop Descriptions
A Threshold – Boston Tea Party with the Mad Hatter: a wonderland production of the -“patient”- staff community meeting.
The work-shop is a “rabbit hole” to a strange, timeless and wonderful world where you will have the freedom to “say what you mean” or at least “mean what you say”. The experiential arm will provide a first-hand experience to bear witness to the chaos and uncertainty of relating in a group setting with persons whose experiences are synonymous with a diagnosis of schizophrenia-schizophrenia spectrum disorder. The group dynamics will be processed and integrated with the extant theoretical and practice-based literature to provide guidelines for establishing and sustaining healthy therapeutic relationships.
A Threshold – Boston Tea Party with the Mad Hatter: a wonderland production of the -“patient”- staff community meeting.
The work-shop is a “rabbit hole” to a strange, timeless and wonderful world where you will have the freedom to “say what you mean” or at least “mean what you say”. The experiential arm will provide a first-hand experience to bear witness to the chaos and uncertainty of relating in a group setting with persons whose experiences are synonymous with a diagnosis of schizophrenia-schizophrenia spectrum disorder. The group dynamics will be processed and integrated with the extant theoretical and practice-based literature to provide guidelines for establishing and sustaining healthy therapeutic relationships.
A Threshold – Boston Tea Party with the Mad Hatter: a wonderland production of the -“patient”- staff community meeting.
The work-shop is a “rabbit hole” to a strange, timeless and wonderful world where you will have the freedom to “say what you mean” or at least “mean what you say”. The experiential arm will provide a first-hand experience to bear witness to the chaos and uncertainty of relating in a group setting with persons whose experiences are synonymous with a diagnosis of schizophrenia-schizophrenia spectrum disorder. The group dynamics will be processed and integrated with the extant theoretical and practice-based literature to provide guidelines for establishing and sustaining healthy therapeutic relationships.
Threshold – Boston Tea Party with the Mad Hatter: a wonderland production of the -“patient”- staff community meeting.
The work-shop is a “rabbit hole” to a strange, timeless and wonderful world where you will have the freedom to “say what you mean” or at least “mean what you say”. The experiential arm will provide a first-hand experience to bear witness to the chaos and uncertainty of relating in a group setting with persons whose experiences are synonymous with a diagnosis of schizophrenia-schizophrenia spectrum disorder. The group dynamics will be processed and integrated with the extant theoretical and practice-based literature to provide guidelines for establishing and sustaining healthy therapeutic relationships.
A Threshold – Boston Tea Party with the Mad Hatter: a wonderland production of the -“patient”- staff community meeting - David Cameron
The work-shop is a “rabbit hole” to a strange, timeless and wonderful world where you will have the freedom to “say what you mean” or at least “mean what you say”. The experiential arm will provide a first-hand experience to bear witness to the chaos and uncertainty of relating in a group setting with persons whose experiences are synonymous with a diagnosis of schizophrenia-schizophrenia spectrum disorder. The group dynamics will be processed and integrated with the extant theoretical and practice-based literature to provide guidelines for establishing and sustaining healthy therapeutic relationships.
Embodied Transformation - Biggi Hoffman
“The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for whom you could become.” Charles Dubois
Psychodrama psychotherapy is a deep psychological and creative method that has been developed by Jacob L. Moreno MD. It draws on guided dramatic action with the aim to explore presenting issues in order to facilitate personal growth. It incorporates group dynamics, role theory, experiential methods and sociometry to assist insight, clarification, integration, and emotional and physical wellbeing.
The aim of this workshop is to provide you with an experiential introduction to the method. Within a safe space we will explore collectively and individually the concept of ‘transformation’ and its emerging themes using art, role and action
The Large Group - Clair Bacha & David Kennard
The Large Group meets on three occasions during the conference, in the morning and at the end of the first day, and at the end of the second day. It will provide an opportunity for the whole conference – participants and faculty members - to meet together to experience both their own development over the course of the two days, and the development of the conference as a whole. It will also provide an opportunity to learn something about the dynamics of unstructured large groups through the experience of participating in one. The Large Group will be facilitated by two members of the Institute of Group Analysis.
Recovery and Reparation: The Power Not to Retaliate and Allow New Growth - Raman Kapur
All groups go through destructive phases, what Wilfred Bion calls "Basic Assumption" group functioning. This workshop describes the pressure on the leader to contain fight / flight and pairing basic assumption activity to allow the group to recover towards a period of growth and calm again.
LGBTSQ Youth-at-Risk: Deepening Therapist Empathy through
Play Reading - Bob Schulte, Rob Williams, Liz Marsh, Yavar Moghimi
Participants will dramatically read together the stage play Dog Sees God by Bert Royal. The workshop
goal is to increase group therapist empathy for the subjectivse experience of
adolescents and young adults identifying as gay, lesbian, bi-sexual,
transgendered, straight or questioning. A
discussion of themes related to emergent sexuality, identity development and
peer acceptance with adolescents-at-risk will follow.
Training Group (T1) - Richard Beck
I will conduct a one day training group based upon the theme of this year’s conference “It can be done: the power of group to bear the unbearable”. In this group training experience, members will have the opportunity to share their experiences with self-care as part of the process of working with the unspeakable and containing the unbearable”. In a safe and confidential setting, members will have the opportunity to teach and support each other in ways that they have learned throughout their clinical careers and experiences.
Training Group (T2) - Donald Murphy and Debra Schwartz Kuhn
Within the human condition, hope and despair are often separated by a thread, showing up in our lives in tandem. In this experiential group, we will work together to develop a context which allows us to give voice to the complexity of living with these two powerful phenomena. During our time together, we will use group process to increase our capacities to tolerate the experience of doubt while learning more about what it has to teach us, its intimate connection to hope, and the power of the group to impact us.
Training Group (T3) The Transformation of Bearing the Unbearable and Unknown into Growth within the Group - Bonnie J. Buchele
As a mental health professional, one inevitably accomplishes portions of the work in a group setting; the primary objective of this training process group is to facilitate the sharpening of each participant’s awareness of personal functioning within the group. Using a psychodynamic/psychoanalytic group theoretical perspective with emphases on object relations and intersubjectivity viewpoints, the leader will facilitate a daylong experiential offering consisting of multiple group sessions and one didactic/summarizing session. Participants will come away with an awareness of the group process and personal participation in it enhanced by an integrated theoretical understanding.
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