Spring CE: Becoming Comfortable with Uncomfortable Feelings with Ronnie Levine, Ph.D., ABPP, AGPA-DF, CGP

4 Core CEs applied for

Our Spring Workshop this year will be VIRTUAL. A large portion of the event will be experiential. This event is sponsored by The Meadows Outpatient Treatment Center - Atlanta. Objectives: By the end of this training, the attendee will be able to:

1. Identify the leaders' and members' fears of experiencing passionate feelings in the group.

2. Identify individual and group emotional communications as both aspects of relational developmental and adaptations of the self’s protection

3. Formulate interventions that address emotional needs of group members.

4. Explain how the techniques of bridging and joining can strengthen self and group stability.

Training Outline

Estimated 45 minutes for Didactic Training

Fishbowl (Experiential Group Experience)

Process and Debrief of Fishbowl Experience

Lunch Break

Second Fishbowl Experience

Debrief and Questions

• Presenter: Ronnie Levine, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist, ABPP, AGPA-DF, CGP About the Presenter

  
  

   Dr. Ronnie Levine is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst specializing in individual and group therapy. She holds a BS from Cornell University and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Derner Institute at Adelphi University. A Harvard Fellow and graduate of NYU’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, she is a Diplomate in Group Psychology and a Distinguished Fellow of the AGPA. She is recognized internationally as a leading group psychotherapist.  
  

  Ronnie has been interested throughout her career in the role that emotional communication

  plays on the development of the self, the value of group therapy as well the psychosocial issues

  that impact thinking, feeling and social and political cohesion.

  She had been a featured speaker for many AGPA Group affiliates in the US and has been an

  international speaker and presenter. She has been a AGPA Connect Plenary speaker and gives

  a popular institute at the AGPA conference on love and hate.

  Ronnie has authored many clinical articles that are published in the International Journal of

  Group Psychotherapy which include “Treating Idealized Hope and Hopelessness”, and

  “Progressing While Regression in Relationships.” She has also published articles on

  Internalized misogyny (A Walk into the Men’s Room) and on the Trump- Clinton Election.

  Ronnie has been influenced by Lou Ormont and Modern Psychoanalysis, Object Relations,

  Relational and Lacan, Laplanche theorists. She is always in a process of expanding her

  thinking to understand clinical and social phenomena.
  

  In 2011, Ronnie was honored by the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society for her

  outstanding contributions to the field of group psychotherapy.
  

  Ronnie has a practice in New York (and a virtual practice) in which she conducts

  individual, couples and group psychotherapy as well as training groups and individual

  and group supervision.