April Follmer, MS, LMHP
April is a Licensed Mental Health Practitioner at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs. With a BFA in Musical Theatre from Wichita State University, April performed throughout the Midwest and worked in radio before completing a Master’s Degree in Community Counseling at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. April specializes in the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders. She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and has extensive experience working with people experiencing grief, loss, and emotional trauma. Through the Nebraska Writers Collective, April worked as a Teaching Artist with Louder Than A Bomb: Great Plains where she received the opportunity to help area teens write, revise, rehearse, and perform original spoken word and slam poetry. April was invited to write and perform with the Seven Doctors Project in 2017. She loves collaborating with other artists and is a member of The Space Between Theatre Collective, A Playback Theatre Company in Omaha. She is also a certified yoga instructor.
April is a Licensed Mental Health Practitioner at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs. With a BFA in Musical Theatre from Wichita State University, April performed throughout the Midwest and worked in radio before completing a Master’s Degree in Community Counseling at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. April specializes in the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders. She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and has extensive experience working with people experiencing grief, loss, and emotional trauma. Through the Nebraska Writers Collective, April worked as a Teaching Artist with Louder Than A Bomb: Great Plains where she received the opportunity to help area teens write, revise, rehearse, and perform original spoken word and slam poetry. April was invited to write and perform with the Seven Doctors Project in 2017. She loves collaborating with other artists and is a member of The Space Between Theatre Collective, A Playback Theatre Company in Omaha. She is also a certified yoga instructor.
Creative Arts Therapy
Instructor: April Follmer, MS, LMHP
Louisa W. Foster PSYD, RDT/BCT
Stephanie Jacobson, MFA
Danielle Laurion MA, R-DMT, GLCMA, LMHP
Pamela Mueggenberg, M.S., LMHP
Bridget M. Shevlin, MT-BC, CCTP
Sunday, June 21st - Saturday, June 27th
(3 credits)
Through reading, discussion, and experience students gain understanding of a wide range of creative arts modalities and therapeutic approaches. Appropriateness of application of modalities and methods for various populations is discussed. Art (drawing, painting, sculpting), poetry, journaling, storytelling, dance/movement, sand play, music (instruments and singing) are explored and woven intermodally with drama.
In this course, participants are exposed to specialized disciplines beyond their current level of training and/or outside of the purview of Drama Therapy. Use of these modalities, without proper training and supervision, would exceed their scope of practice. Participants are responsible for ensuring that they are in compliance with professional standards and limits of practice as defined by the ethics code, as well as licensing and credentialing laws in the state of practice.
Introduction to Bunraku Puppetry Ensemble Wednesday 6/24 6-9pm:
Bunraku puppetry is an ideal meld of both mime, mask and puppetry; connecting three individual minds into one. In this workshop participants will work in small groups to build and bring a character to life through creating shared thought and action.
Indonesian Shadow Mask Workshop Thursday 6/25 6-9pm:
Participants will explore movement and practice building techniques of Indonesia- based Mask performance. Pooling the tools of shadow, silhouette, Laban and Lecoq technique into a theater practice that calls for character development from the outside-in.
Instructor: April Follmer, MS, LMHP
Louisa W. Foster PSYD, RDT/BCT
Stephanie Jacobson, MFA
Danielle Laurion MA, R-DMT, GLCMA, LMHP
Pamela Mueggenberg, M.S., LMHP
Bridget M. Shevlin, MT-BC, CCTP
Sunday, June 21st - Saturday, June 27th
(3 credits)
Through reading, discussion, and experience students gain understanding of a wide range of creative arts modalities and therapeutic approaches. Appropriateness of application of modalities and methods for various populations is discussed. Art (drawing, painting, sculpting), poetry, journaling, storytelling, dance/movement, sand play, music (instruments and singing) are explored and woven intermodally with drama.
In this course, participants are exposed to specialized disciplines beyond their current level of training and/or outside of the purview of Drama Therapy. Use of these modalities, without proper training and supervision, would exceed their scope of practice. Participants are responsible for ensuring that they are in compliance with professional standards and limits of practice as defined by the ethics code, as well as licensing and credentialing laws in the state of practice.
Introduction to Bunraku Puppetry Ensemble Wednesday 6/24 6-9pm:
Bunraku puppetry is an ideal meld of both mime, mask and puppetry; connecting three individual minds into one. In this workshop participants will work in small groups to build and bring a character to life through creating shared thought and action.
Indonesian Shadow Mask Workshop Thursday 6/25 6-9pm:
Participants will explore movement and practice building techniques of Indonesia- based Mask performance. Pooling the tools of shadow, silhouette, Laban and Lecoq technique into a theater practice that calls for character development from the outside-in.
Creative Arts Therapy
Instructor: April Follmer, MS, LMHP
Louisa W. Foster PSYD, RDT/BCT
Stephanie Jacobson, MFA
Danielle Laurion MA, R-DMT, GLCMA, LMHP
Pamela Mueggenberg, M.S., LMHP
Bridget M. Shevlin, MT-BC, CCTP
Sunday, June 21st - Saturday, June 27th
(3 credits)
Through reading, discussion, and experience students gain understanding of a wide range of creative arts modalities and therapeutic approaches. Appropriateness of application of modalities and methods for various populations is discussed. Art (drawing, painting, sculpting), poetry, journaling, storytelling, dance/movement, sand play, music (instruments and singing) are explored and woven intermodally with drama.
In this course, participants are exposed to specialized disciplines beyond their current level of training and/or outside of the purview of Drama Therapy. Use of these modalities, without proper training and supervision, would exceed their scope of practice. Participants are responsible for ensuring that they are in compliance with professional standards and limits of practice as defined by the ethics code, as well as licensing and credentialing laws in the state of practice.
Introduction to Bunraku Puppetry Ensemble Wednesday 6/24 6-9pm:
Bunraku puppetry is an ideal meld of both mime, mask and puppetry; connecting three individual minds into one. In this workshop participants will work in small groups to build and bring a character to life through creating shared thought and action.
Indonesian Shadow Mask Workshop Thursday 6/25 6-9pm:
Participants will explore movement and practice building techniques of Indonesia- based Mask performance. Pooling the tools of shadow, silhouette, Laban and Lecoq technique into a theater practice that calls for character development from the outside-in.
Instructor: April Follmer, MS, LMHP
Louisa W. Foster PSYD, RDT/BCT
Stephanie Jacobson, MFA
Danielle Laurion MA, R-DMT, GLCMA, LMHP
Pamela Mueggenberg, M.S., LMHP
Bridget M. Shevlin, MT-BC, CCTP
Sunday, June 21st - Saturday, June 27th
(3 credits)
Through reading, discussion, and experience students gain understanding of a wide range of creative arts modalities and therapeutic approaches. Appropriateness of application of modalities and methods for various populations is discussed. Art (drawing, painting, sculpting), poetry, journaling, storytelling, dance/movement, sand play, music (instruments and singing) are explored and woven intermodally with drama.
In this course, participants are exposed to specialized disciplines beyond their current level of training and/or outside of the purview of Drama Therapy. Use of these modalities, without proper training and supervision, would exceed their scope of practice. Participants are responsible for ensuring that they are in compliance with professional standards and limits of practice as defined by the ethics code, as well as licensing and credentialing laws in the state of practice.
Introduction to Bunraku Puppetry Ensemble Wednesday 6/24 6-9pm:
Bunraku puppetry is an ideal meld of both mime, mask and puppetry; connecting three individual minds into one. In this workshop participants will work in small groups to build and bring a character to life through creating shared thought and action.
Indonesian Shadow Mask Workshop Thursday 6/25 6-9pm:
Participants will explore movement and practice building techniques of Indonesia- based Mask performance. Pooling the tools of shadow, silhouette, Laban and Lecoq technique into a theater practice that calls for character development from the outside-in.