Lola Broomberg
Testimonials
"My daughter came out of her first class with Lola with a mighty leap and the exclamation: "I love Playing Mantis!" After many months, she still feels this way. I've never seen a child looking bored in one of her classes. Lola is seems to remember better than any teacher I've seen what it is to be a child. Her teaching embraces their spontaneity, energy, and how they put their whole being into what they are excited about. It's obvious she knows that playing is the best kind of learning. The children learn to value their own ideas as well as those of others and how to put them together as a team. Most of all, they have FUN!"
Chloe's mom,
Le'o Washburn
"I have been in a group that Lola facilitated. From the first day, she put us at ease - people immediately felt safe in the space she created and were able to open up allowing the therapeutic process to begin. And it was fun! During those 10 weeks I went through a transformation and made some personal decisions that had needed to happen for a long time. Lola's continuing support, inspiration and caring were what enabled my growth to happen. I am grateful that she is in my life."
-Jeya Aeronson
Acupuncturist
About
Lola Broomberg is a woman with a lot of energy who likes to engage in a range of cross-pollinating enterprises; theater, therapy, play and education. The common thread to the range of her work is a desire to assist people in giving voice to their most optimistic version of themselves and the possibility of living life as a social change agent.
Lola is a mental health counselor in private practice in Eugene, Oregon. She is an associate of Peggy Grace Chun - Artists Counseling Services. Her clientele primarily includes artists, dreamers, women in transition, adolescent girls and couples.
Lola is on the faculty of the Women in Transition Program at Lane Community College and teaches Career and Life planning in the Architecture and Allied Arts Department at the University of Oregon.
Programs and Performance
During the Summer, Lola is the director and coordinator of Imagine That! Summer Adventures. This unique collaborative creative arts and performance day camp has an almost cult following among elementary school age kids in Eugene, Oregon.
Lola will be directing the Vagina Monologues in Lane County for the third year in 2009. She also regularly offers personal theater classes to women and adolescent girls in the community.
Her long-range goals are to offer "Group to Troupe" trainings for group facilitators who want to learn ways to incorporate improv and personal theater games into their programs, and to co-teach with her father an innovative new program that she is designing called, “How to become a social change agent.”