professional development offerings – FALL 2009

UPCOMING CLASSES:

• Funding Strategies for Nonprofits Workshop: Managing through a Recession
• Nonprofit Leadership Series Workshop
• Using Expressive/Play Therapies to Heal the Effects of Interpersonal Traumas

Funding Strategies for Nonprofits Workshop: Managing through a Recession
Jim Bildner and Andrea E. McGrath
LMGMT 5517
DATES: Tuesdays, October 6-20
TIME: 6:45pm-8:45pm
LOCATION: University Hall 4-037
TUITION: Non-credit, $100

Nonprofits are facing significantly reduced assets, and even greater demand for their services, while public and private philanthropic dollars are shrinking. As available capital continues to decrease, nontraditional investment options — including loans and other program-related investments —represent a significant opportunity to bring a fundamentally different approach to funding society's critical needs.

This workshop provides an overview of nontraditional capital investments and the benefits they can provide for funders and for nonprofits. We will discuss some of the key barriers that prevent the adoption and use of these funding strategies more broadly. We'll focus on program related investments (PRIs), and discuss how nonprofits can evaluate the appropriateness for their organizations, understand how best to structure and implement them, review these strategies with their management and board, and discuss these options with current and potential funders.

Nonprofit Leadership Series Workshop
Carol Ann Clem and Patricia Deyton
LMGMT 5504
DATES: Wednesdays, October 14, 21 and Tuesdays, October 27, November 3;
TIME: 7:00pm–9:30pm
LOCATION: Wednesdays, October 14, 21, University Hall 4-033
Tuesdays, October 27, November 3, University Hall 4-022
TUITION: Non-credit, $150

This seminar is designed for managers, executive directors, and board members of nonprofit organizations, as well as people considering making a career change to the nonprofit sector. Its goals are to enable participants to become more effective leaders of nonprofit organizations, to provide a forum in which they can share ideas and gain practical suggestions for strengthening their organizations, and to create an environment in which they can get to know leaders of other nonprofit organizations. Meeting topics include: strategic planning as a key to success; increasing the impact of marketing; leadership and ethical gatekeeping; developing board members and volunteers. The primary learning components are interactive discussions related to specific issues and problems faced by a participant's organization, presentations and practical guidance by experienced faculty practitioners, and readings.

Using Expressive/Play Therapies to Heal the Effects of Interpersonal Traumas:
An Integrated Approach to Healing
Eliana Gil
LEXTH 5500
Sponsored by the New England Association for Play Therapy and Lesley University
DATE: Saturday, September 26
TIME: Registration, 8:30am-9:00am; Conference, 9:00am-4:30pm
LOCATION: University Hall Amphitheater, Room 2-150
TUITION:
NE Play Association Members: $75
Lesley students: $50
Nonmembers: $100
(tuition includes lunch)
Note: There is no registration fee for the conference.
6 CEUs are available, APT Provider #02-123

This workshop will focus on the use of Play, Art and Sandtray Play Therapies with children. It will provide state of the art information on our current understanding of the impact of interpersonal trauma on children's affective and social experiences. It is important to recognize that human beings possess intrinsic drives to heal. Clinicians, however, are also challenged to integrate evidence and practice-informed approaches to treatment. Clinicians will learn to respect children's phenomenological understanding of their world within the context of their developmental ages, cultural contexts and their play. This workshop will encourage a multi-modal approach to facilitate reparative experiences. Special emphasis will be placed on the processing of post-traumatic play. Case examples using Play, Art and Sandtray Play Therapies will be used to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach.

Objectives - Participants completing this workshop will be able to:

• Describe three common aftereffects of interpersonal trauma;
• List two complicating factors present in interpersonal trauma;
• Identify two consensus areas for treatment issues to address in traumatized children;
• Define Post-traumatic play and give two factors present in this type of play;
• List two natural reparative mechanisms;
• Describe what is meant by a person's phenomenological experience;
• List two ways that Art can be used in the assessment and treatment of abused children;
• List two ways that Sandtray Play Therapy can be utilized in the assessment and treatment of abused children.