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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. 29, 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.

Reframing and Reimagining Anxiety Through Applied Improvisation

Friday June 22, 2018 1-5 pm
The Magnet Training Center, 22 W 32nd St., 10th Floor, New York, NY
This workshop provides 3 hours of Continuing Education for social workers approved by NYS, provider #0270

Tuesday July 10, 2018 1-5 pm
Lifestage, Inc.496 Smithtown Bypass Suite 202 Smithtown NY 11787 $65 Read more or register

Anxiety is increasingly an issue for people of all ages as the world changes at an ever-escalating pace and uncertainty is the new normal, creating a nearly constant learning curve for people of all ages. While anxiety is a natural and normal response to the unknown, it interferes with the ability to think, connect with other people and solve problems, which are the capacities we need the most when dealing with change and personal challenges. Cognitive reframing and the ability to retell a fear-based story into a narrative that reflects empowerment and strengthens resilience can be tools of transformation for clients and students and they can be learned. Improvisation training is highly effective for both reframing ideas, redirecting anxiety, and re-imagining one's own personal story, which translates into a creative mind and skill set that promotes personal empowerment and psychological resilience. Read more or register

Get Your Creative On Improvisation and Storytelling Intensive

Tues. July 17, 2018 1pm to 5 pm
Get Your Creative On Improvisation and Storytelling Intensive
Lifestage, Inc
496 Smithtown Bypass Suite 202 Smithtown, NY 11787 $65

This workshop offers 6 CE hours for social workers approved by NYS Recharge your energy, connect with your own creative energy and cultivate creative confidence in this full-day intensive workshop designed for adults from all walks of life. Using improvisation games and exercises, we will learn how to shift into a creative mindset and develop and communicate ideas that grow into fully-realized scenes and stories. The techniques for making this shift produce a group atmosphere of support, engagement and most importantly, fun. You will discover your own creative brilliance and learn techniques for taking this into daily life. Read more or register

Summer Saturdays Improv Group

Sat. July 7 and 21, 2018 4-7 pm
Lifestage, Inc
496 Smithtown Bypass Suite 202 Smithtown, NY 11787 $80

These 2 groups will focus on developing creative confidence and deepening fundamental skills for creating authentic, compelling interactions and characters through which we can explore ideas and tell stories together. These skills include close listening, receiving and building on offers, and organic responses to other players that create interesting, grounded improvised scenes. Through engaging games and exercises we develop a dynamic group creative process through strengthening each player's ability to follow a creative impulse, connect with partners, and communicate ideas with generosity and emotional connection. Read more or register

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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