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Playing with Instability: Developmental Transformations in a Time of Global Chaos
In moments of global uncertainty, our inner worlds don’t stay still—and neither does play. This one-day Developmental Transformations (DvT) workshop offers a deep, embodied exploration of instability as articulated by David Read Johnson: not as something to resolve or eliminate, but as a vital engine of creativity, meaning-making, and emotional truth.
Across six hours of play and didactic integration, participants will engage instability as it lives in the body, in relationships, and in our collective emotional landscape—grief, fear, rage, hope, and the longing for coherence in a fractured world. Together, we’ll explore how DvT allows us to stay present and responsive amid disruption, and how play becomes a way to metabolize chaos rather than shut down or over-control it.
Held at Howie the Harp—a space rooted in community, dignity, and lived experience—this workshop invites clinicians, artists, and helpers to reconnect with flexibility, curiosity, and aliveness at a time when none of us are untouched by what’s happening around us.
Bring your questions, your nervous systems, and your humanity. All bodies are welcomed!
This class provides 12 Embodied Play hours towards Practitioner Certification. This workshop can be used for 12 hours of Continuing Education for Licensed Creative Arts Therapists, Licensed Social Workers (LMSW/LSCW) and RDTs.
Faculty: Tami Gatta, LCAT, RDT
When: Saturday February 7th, 10am-5pm
Where: Curious Rebels @ Howie the Harp
2090 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd # 12, New York, NY 10027
Pricing: We use a sliding scale model for pricing, based on the version shown here by Alexis Cunningfolk. Please select the level appropriate to you: those who can pay closer to the actual price support the attendance of others.
Curious Rebels, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0765. Curious Rebels, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0109.
In moments of global uncertainty, our inner worlds don’t stay still—and neither does play. This one-day Developmental Transformations (DvT) workshop offers a deep, embodied exploration of instability as articulated by David Read Johnson: not as something to resolve or eliminate, but as a vital engine of creativity, meaning-making, and emotional truth.
Across six hours of play and didactic integration, participants will engage instability as it lives in the body, in relationships, and in our collective emotional landscape—grief, fear, rage, hope, and the longing for coherence in a fractured world. Together, we’ll explore how DvT allows us to stay present and responsive amid disruption, and how play becomes a way to metabolize chaos rather than shut down or over-control it.
Held at Howie the Harp—a space rooted in community, dignity, and lived experience—this workshop invites clinicians, artists, and helpers to reconnect with flexibility, curiosity, and aliveness at a time when none of us are untouched by what’s happening around us.
Bring your questions, your nervous systems, and your humanity. All bodies are welcomed!
This class provides 12 Embodied Play hours towards Practitioner Certification. This workshop can be used for 12 hours of Continuing Education for Licensed Creative Arts Therapists, Licensed Social Workers (LMSW/LSCW) and RDTs.
Faculty: Tami Gatta, LCAT, RDT
When: Saturday February 7th, 10am-5pm
Where: Curious Rebels @ Howie the Harp
2090 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd # 12, New York, NY 10027
Pricing: We use a sliding scale model for pricing, based on the version shown here by Alexis Cunningfolk. Please select the level appropriate to you: those who can pay closer to the actual price support the attendance of others.
Curious Rebels, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0765. Curious Rebels, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0109.