Workshops

IMAGO conducts workshops to educate adults about sustainability. Specialized workshops are offered to professional social workers and counselors for continuing education credit.  Workshops we have conducted in the past include  the following topics:
 

Upcoming Workshops:
Fall/Winter 2000
Art in Nature/Nature in Art
Presented by Sharon Wilson and Dennis Coskie
Friday, October 20
9:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.
700 Enright Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
Please call 921-5124 for registration information.
Art in Nature/Nature in Art, a behavioral wellness program, combines the benefits of art and ecopsychology. The program is an interactive introduction to art ideas and techniques to facilitate an exploration of our personal place in the web of life.
Producing a sense of ease instead of dis-ease through the process of connection to all around us is a philosophy that is gaining acceptance throughout the healthcare community.  Modern psychiatry has ignored the most primal part of our soul: our ecological unconscious. This workshop will assist us in learning fundamental modalities for getting in touch with the natural world and our subconscious thoughts and feelings.  No experience required.  Much of the workshop will be outdoors.
Sharon Wilson is a Certified Psychiatric, Mental Health Registered Nurse who has had a psychodynamic therapy practice working with people of all ages. Educated in holistic studies at the Union Institute and in art at the Rochester Institute of Technology, she continues her art studies through the Cincinnati Art Museum Academy.  Working in the medium of watercolor, Sharon’s work has been exhibited in New York, Florida and locally.
Dennis Coskie is a care manager for Creative Connections through LightHouse Youth Services, providing services to youth with severe emotional and behavioral problems.  He has been the director of adolescent services at a day treatment program, using art therapy to help children focus on underlying emotional issues.  Dennis attended graduate school at the University of Rochester with a concentration in psychology.  As a  fine arts photographer, Dennis studied art at Columbia College in Chicago, IL.  As the owner and Director of the Pinnacle Gallery in Rochester, NY. , Dennis juried many art exhibitions.  His work has been exhibited in Texas, Illinois, New York, Wisconsin and locally.
 
 
 
 
Finding Spirituality and Meaning In Our Work and Lives
Presented by Mark Steiner
Friday, November 10
9:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.
Price Hill  (exact location and
directions provided with registration confirmation)
Please call 921-5124 for registration information.
This workshop will explore how we and our clients might enrich our personal lives by gaining a greater appreciation for the wonders of creation. By looking at the knowledge we have gained about our world,  from the atom to the galaxy, we will see the interconnect-edness of our work and lives and understand spirituality in a new and exciting way. We will acknowledge the deeply connected nature of our world and identify the individual and collective human role in its unfolding story.  This workshop will include presentations, reflection, sharing, creativity, celebration, drama and high play. We will honor and celebrate our creativity and our great potential.
Mark Steiner is a businessman from Louisville, Kentucky who takes spirituality and meaning seriously in his work and life. He has presented lectures, workshops, and classes on the topics of spirituality, work, cosmology, customer service, and self-awareness. In addition, he has worked as a regional Connector for the Creation Spirituality movement since 1991.  He and his partner Catherine Browning have spent the last few years presenting their workshops on Spirituality and the New Cosmology across the United States.
 
 
 
The Natural Step to Sustainability
Presented by Diane DePuydt & Isabelle Healy
Friday, December 8
9:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.
Price Hill  (exact location and
directions provided with registration confirmation)
Please call 921-5124 for registration information.
We need a new way of looking at how we interact with our environment, as individuals, businesses, and communities. The Natural Step (TNS), begun in Sweden and now in the United States, offers a straightforward guide for living sustainability. This workshop, in presenting the principles of TNS, will develop and share a common framework comprised of easily understood, scientifically-based principles that can serve as a compass to guide society toward a just and sustainable future.
Diane DePuydt, Ph.D. is executive director of EarthConnection, a center for learning and reflection about sustainable living practice. She gives talks and workshops about sustainable living throughout greater Cincinnati.  Along with Isabelle Healy, she has been involved in introducing The Natural Step into the Cincinnati community.
Isabelle Healy is an organizational consultant specializing in group development, process design, organizational transformation and facilitation of retreats, conferences and strategic decision-making.
Along with Diane Depuydt, she has been involved in introducing The Natural Step into the Cincinnati community.