Welcome To Neurobasecenter- the home of brain-based dramatherapy,social change and offender therapy

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What this site will give you!

Welcome to NEUROBASECENTER!

 There will be a mini version of John's brain based trauma/attachment specific TREATMENT MANUALS

for adolescents 12-14, 15-18 as well as developmentally delayed. This will be at one of the NAPN  conference tables . These have already been in use for 15 months.

All the examples on display will show some experiential exercises for brain based treatment, examples of lesson plans and  equipment.

If  you are interested get in touch with macflap@aol.com- John Bergman .

Looking forward to hearing from you

You're the First,and this site will go through a lot of changes

Currently Mr. Bergman, MA, RDT/MT works in New Zealand, Roumania, Australia, England and the USA. He is a registered Master dramatherapist, who has worked for 28 years doing drama/drama therapy and psychoeducational drama only in criminal justice . He is the founder/artistic director of Geese Theatre Co USA, and the former artistic director of Geese UK and  current president of Transcena, Romania- all theatre and theatre therapy based companies working exclusively in prisons.
      He has received a BAFTA for his original show Lifting The Weight,( for young offenders) as well as awards from the American Correctional Association, The National Association of Drama Therapists. He is the clinical program developer and the original creator for AWARE of a therapeutic neurological program for adolescents in Melbourne, and has established therapeutic communities in Melbourne and Romania. His has contributed chapters to such books Art Approaches to Conflict ed. Liebmann M), The Safer Society Press training video entitled-An Introduction to Drama Therapy with Juvenile and Adult Sex Offenders, Longo and Prescott’s Current Perspectives: Working with sexually aggressive youth as well as to Current Approaches in Drama Therapy ed: Lewis and Johnson , Bergman and Hewish have also written a book : Challenging Experience, Experiential Exercises for the Treatment of Violent and Sexually Violent Men( now used in 15 countries)

FOR NAPN VISITORS-- Details of the manual

We will put the information from the ANZATSA lecture Sydney 2009-- on this site on another page.

 And this site will be used for nurobased information especially for creative arts therapists --

 

A new picture Every Month-here's probation officers sculpting conflict

  This manual is a first- BRAIN SPECIFIC  experiential exercises to treat adolescent sexual offenders for trauma and attachment issues , to help them deal with the distress that they present with.product not the product!
 
 
If we don't treat the trauma , the child will remain distressed and disconnected. Sexual offending is a by- product not the product!
 
 
And soon- brain based treatment for borderline clients.....
 

This HOW TO CONNECT for other information and Consults.

We work internationally to make original  change in criminal justice- whether a brain based program with adolescents, re-training 1000 officers in ethics , starting new therapeutic communities, creating original shows, poetry, plays with men, women and children who had never ever touched the uniqueness inside themselves- we try to find the new core.

 

 Through the months ahead -- we will update , introduce and explore 

A. The way of a brain based program

B. The techniques of experiential work

 and try to provide links to new work

  CONTACT John Bergman at macflap@aol.com

 
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