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Lifestage Inc.

Lifestage, Inc is a training and consulting company that has offered professional development workshops and classes and workplace wellness programs for the past 25 years, specializing in creative, experiential methods that are firmly grounded in scientific evidence. We are highly trained in experiential methods, including psychodrama, Applied Improvisation, and Interactive Theater in clinical and education settings, and train health care, medical, education and business professionals in applications of these methods.

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Lifestage, Inc, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0270. All the training workshops listed below are approved for Continuing Education hours for social workers.

(mostly) TRUE THINGS storytelling show

Sat. Sept. 22, 2018 7 pm.
The Performing Arts Studio
224 E. Main St. Port Jefferson, NY
Tickets $15 online, $20 at the door (cash only)
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Lifestage president Jude Treder-Wolff was interviewed about the therapeutic impact of storytelling and creativity on Dennis Has A Podcast. You can listen to it on this link Episode 608 "I Can Get Exposed to Something That I Might Never Otherwise Ever Learn About"

UPCOMING CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES IN 2018

Lifestage, Inc, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0270. All the training workshops listed below are approved for Continuing Education hours for social workers.

IMPROV FOR EVERYONE Group Series

Lifestage, Inc
496 Smithtown Bypass Suite 202 Smithtown, NY 11787 $65

$40/session or $100 for the entire series. Click on each date to go to the registration link for that date.
Wednesday Oct. 17, 2018 6-9 pm
Wednesday Nov. 14, 2018 6-9 pm

To register for all 3 @ $100 click here: Improv For Everyone Group Series
This group will feature creative, engaging games and exercises that warm us up to the state of play and generate a mindset for navigating the unknown with a spirit of fun and curiosity. We will focus on generating grounded, organic, imaginative scenes that strengthen skills for doing long form improvisation, which is a rich, creative exploration of ideas through collaboration, intuition and group support. This group is for any improviser of any level.

HAPPINESS SKILLS: Applying Positive Psychology Principles Through Applied Improvisation

Friday Oct. 5, 2018 1-5 pm $80
Magnet Training Center,
22 W. 32nd St., 10th Floor
New York, NY
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Saturday Nov. 17, 2018 1-5 pm $70 Lifestage, Inc
496 Smithtown Bypass Suite 202 Smithtown, NY 11787 $65
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This workshop provide 4 CE hours for social workers approved by NYS (provider #0270) Positive Psychology is a strengths-based approach to mental health and well-being, grounded in the scientific study of resilience and optimal functioning. This practical science can be applied to empower people to generate and sustain a positive approach to life, take responsibility for their own choices, actions and attitudes, increase resiliency to difficult circumstances, through focusing on ways to identify and make the most of one's strengths, talents and gifts. The "happiness skills" associated with positive psychology are the same skills developed through the games and exercises used in improvisation and are extremely important tools for life

More workshop participants all lit up with reward chemistry.

Jude Treder-Wolff writes for Medium.com Follow her by clicking here Medium.com@judetrederwolff

Creating A Climate For Communication in Science and Medicine Through Improvisation

Applied Improvisation is a creative method for getting very smart people who do important work to improve their ability to convey knowledge and expertise to the people impacted by it. But it is fundamentally a way to become better at all human interaction. In every area of life, we are always impacting and being impacted by others. Alan Alda - who provided the keynote address at the 2017 Applied Improvisation World Conference in Irvine, CA - created the Alan Alda Center For Communicating Science at Stonybrook University where he uses improv games and exercises he learned years ago to develop as an actor to train scientists, doctors and researchers to be more effective communicators. read article

Fearful of Change? Improv Can Help

The more threatened and fearful we tend to be, the harder it is to say ?yes? to what is new and unfamiliar. We may recognize that change is always just around the corner. We might even know that change can be exactly what we need. But there are fears that must be faced and skills for facing them can be learned. read article

IMPROV RULES: Social-Emotional Development From The Classroom To The Consulting Room Through Applied Improvisation

This is the handout created for a workshop given at the Applied Improvisation Network World Conference at the University of Irvine-CA in August 2017. The skills that produce improv "magic" - where what happens onstage is so connected and inspired that it seems to have been written and rehearsed in advance - are the same skills we use to in groups and classes where important learning will take place. These skills begin to develop from the very first, most basic exposure to the games and exercises through which we learn the rules that guide improvised interactions. These rules can only be learned through direct social-emotional experience, and because every experience we have changes our brain, the kinds of skills cultivated through improv training translate into strengthening substantive and essential relationship and thinking competencies.. read article