SpiritPlay Drama Therapy
For people interested in moving their bodies, laughing, transforming negativity all while increasing their tolerance for their own strengths and weaknesses, and their capacity for intimacy.
Bored with talk therapy? Got it all figured out, but still stuck?
SpiritPlay is an active and rejuvenating individual or group process that combines movement and improvisation, inviting members to play together. SpiritPlay offers a new way to workout your body, mind and spirit. It invites people who work too hard to remember and relearn the value of playing and having fun. Sweat, laughter, and a feeling of deeper physical relaxation are guaranteed.
Through the Developmental Transformations method, SpiritPlay offers a fun-filled way to get un-stuck - in your career, relationships, within yourself. Playing is an excellent tool for releasing rigidity, promoting intimacy and spontaneity, and becoming more comfortable with yourself in your daily life. Created in 1988 as a drama therapy method, Developmental Transformations is currently being used in healing centers, treatment programs and schools around the country.
Click on the links above to see the different ways you can participate in this invigorating way to grow.
Open Groups
Open groups are a one-time experience that enable you to try the method and see if you like it!
Each group begins with an explanation of the method, a 45-minute experience of it, followed by closing remarks.
NYC Open Groups
An open group meets one Wednesday a month, from 7 to 8:30pm, in Chelsea.
$15 for first timers! $25 every group thereafter
2010 dates: Jan. 13, Feb. 10, Mar. 10,
Apr. 7, May 5
Woodstock
An open group meets one-two Satrudays a month, from 10:30am to 12:00pm, in Woodstock.
$10 first time, $20 recurring.
2010 dates: Jan.9, Feb. 10, Mar. 13,
Apr. 10, May 8
Ongoing Groups
Ongoing groups are for people are interested in healing their intimacy and embodiment issues by working with a long-term, consistent group, in which regular members are encouraged to bring in personal material for exploration and play. SpiritPlay offers a safe, supportive sacred community with whom you can process and work through long-standing issues. This fun-filled way of growing and transforming requires a commitment to one's healing process. Attendance at each group is required except for illness and special arrangements.
NYC
An ongoing group meets every other Wednesday, from 7 to 8:30pm, in Chelsea.
One slot has become available. Call 212-726-1592 for more information and an interview.
Screening required for admittance.
Woodstock
New for 2009!
An ongoing group is in the process of forming every other Saturday, from 10:30am to 12 noon, in Woodstock.
Slots are filling fast! Please call 845-679-4140 - for more information about the new, ongoing group.
Individual
SpiritPlay is a revolutionary, amazing and intense way to work in individual or couples therapy.
Here is one client's testimonial:
"After years of talk therapy, I felt myself at home in this process. Each session was like a powerful dream, in which amazing things I had no idea were even going on would be revealed and played with. There they were . . . my patterns, revealed in the play! I didn't think that I could actually grow through so much laughter! And I loved being able to include my body and my creativity in therapy. I am used to being the student in the therapy, but playing with Blair made it more like she and I were in it together, and I grew to appreciate that so much."
--H.S. Guidance counselor, NYC, 35 years old
Individual and couples work begins with 4-20 sessions of talk therapy, dedicated to sharing the client's story with the therapist, so that the therapist has the client's story available to them as material for play. Once the details of the story are complete, SpiritPlay sessions begin, with client and therapist engaging in improvised play. No agenda is planned for each session. Talking occurs mostly before and then within the play, not after each session.
Call Blair at the number below for more information on working with SpiritPlay individually.
