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THE WORDSWORTH CENTER
for Growth and Healing
Education Enrichment
for:
counselors, creative
arts therapists,
educators
expressive therapists,
health advisors,
hospice workers
librarians,
marriage&family
therapists, mediators,
ministers,
poets, professors,
psychiatrists,
psychologists, school
counselors,
social workers,
teachers, writers,
youth counselors,
journal keepers,
counselors, creative
arts therapists,
educators, expressive
therapists, health
advisors
THE WORDSWORTH CENTER
Poetry Therapy
Training Programs
The CENTER offers
three educational
programs, each of
which is consistent
with the training and
supervision
requirements for
credentials conferred
by the National
Association for Poetry
Therapy. The diligent
learner can complete
the 440-hour
certification
requirement in a two-
year period.
*Non-Residential
Program: provides
guided, independent
study of poetry
therapy for those
residing at a
distance from the
Washington, D.C.
metropolitan area.
Students receive 40
hours each year of
direction and
supervision by means
of written, phone
and/or e-mail
response to their
annotated reading
logs, journal
records, and
written, audio and
videotaped reports.
Attendance at two,
four-day Intensive
residential seminars
offers the
opportunity for
individual face-to-
face contact. --
Kenneth Gorelick and
Peggy Osna Heller,
Directors.

*Potomac Program: The
Poetry Therapy
Training Institute,
provides an all-day
Saturday seminar
that meets near
Great Falls,
Maryland, from
October to July.
(Peggy Osna Heller,
Director)

*D.C. Program:
offers a weekly,
three-hour late
afternoon seminar
from September to
June in northwest
Washington
convenient to Metro
and bus. (Kenneth
Gorelick, Director)
Each of the two-year
programs includes
attendance at the
annual summer
Intensive and provides
directed reading,
workbook exercises,
peer group experience,
and supervised
practicum geared to
the student's interest
and expertise.
THE FIRST YEAR
provides an overview
of poetry therapy
history and theory, an
introduction to
essential learnings in
the field, and
direction in
formulating and
initiating practicum
experience.
THE SECOND YEAR
focuses on advanced
techniques in creative
writing and action
poetry therapy, use of
diverse language
media, and strategies
of applied literature
for specific
populations and
issues.
INTENSIVES each year
offer learners the
opportunity to explore
selected topics in
depth while
interacting and
participating in peer
and supervision groups
with professional
colleagues from across
the country and around
the globe. Each annual
Intensive reprises
essential elements of
poetry therapy and
also features new
topics and
perspectives.
Credentials
The National
Association for Poetry
Therapy (NAPT)
designates two forms
of poetry therapy:
developmental and
clinical, and confers
credentials on
successful applicants.
The Certified Poetry
Therapist (CPT) is a
poet, writer, teacher,
librarian, or other
qualified professional
with a bachelor's
degree or beyond, who
works with the healthy
aspects of the
personality and is
trained to recognize
and manage or refer
troubled individuals
to a primary
clinician.
The Registered Poetry
Therapist (RPT) holds
a master's or doctoral
degree in
psychotherapy,
counseling or a
comparable
discipline.
The CPT completes 440
hours, the RPT
completes 975 hours of
supervised training.
NAPT is the membership
organization for
people interested in
poetry therapy.
Membership benefits
include the quarterly
Journal of Poetry
Therapy, "Museletter,"
reduced fees for
annual conferences.
The Center recommends
NAPT membership to all
and requires it of
trainees. For more
information, contact
Rod Daniel, Ph.D. at:
NAPT
#280, 5505 Connecticut
Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20015
202/966-2536
FACULTY OF THE
WORDSWORTH CENTER
*Kenneth P. Gorelick,
MD, RPT, has been
the Director of
Continuing Medical
Education at a major
teaching hospital
for the past 25
years and has
conducted a private
practice of
psychotherapy and
poetry therapy. He
is an associate
clinical professor
of psychiatry at
George Washington
University and has
taught poetry
therapy in the
graduate programs of
The Catholic
University of
America and Lesley
College in
Cambridge, Mass. A
past president of
the National
Association for
Poetry Therapy and
the NAPT Foundation,
he has presented
workshops nationally
and internationally.
He serves on the
editorial boards of
The Journal of
Poetry Therapy and
Arts in
Psychotherapy.
e-mail Ken Gorelick
*Peggy Osna Heller,
PhD, LICSW, RPT, is
a Diplomate in
clinical social
work. She has taught
courses in poetry
therapy at The
Catholic University
School of Social
Service in
Washington, D.C. and
at Lesley College.
She serves as
adjunct faculty for
the Union Institute
Graduate School. A
lecturer and
workshop leader
nationally, she is
an executive officer
on the board of The
Bibliotherapy Round
Table, is a past
president of the
National Association
for Poetry Therapy,
and the NAPT
Foundation. She has
held poetry therapy
positions at
hospitals and
treatment centers
and founded the
Poetry Therapy
Training Institute.
e-mail Peggy Heller
Ken Gorelick and Peggy
Heller are NAPT-
approved mentor/
supervisors.
THE WORDSWORTH CENTER
Poetry Therapy
Training
For therapists,
counselors, clergy,
teachers, writers,
poets, librarians, and
other lovers of
language as applied to
growth and healing of
self, relationships
and community
The Center offers
professional education
illuminated by poetry,
story, journal,
creative and
reflective writing
provides didactic and
experiential learning,
supervised practice
and collegial
interchange for those
wishing to enhance
skills and/or
professional
credentials
Poetry therapy is
older than literacy.
Before written
language, bards and
storytellers wove the
beauty of language
into individual and
collective experience,
giving voice to pain
and activating the
healing process.
Eastern cultures have
long used poetry to
express what is
otherwise
inexpressible; poetic
utterance is most
prized. The psalms too
reflect this timeless
understanding. At the
threshold of east and
west, the Greeks in
their worship of
Apollo respected the
connection between
medicine and poet
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