The Lives of Our Ancestors - Weekend Workshop

Leader: Sue Daniel

Director of the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne
Psychodramatist, Psychologist, MAPS
Psychotherapist





Workshop Description: This two-day seminar demonstrates a psychodramatic framework and systemic approach to the generational or family tree. This approach of ancestral drama gives presence to the fates, myths and stories of the people that have woven our fabric of identity, and, to some extent, the manner in which past-unresolved traumas and conflicts are passed on through the generations. Events from the past are brought to life in psychodramatic enactment. This workshop is both experiential and theoretical for people with an interest in their family history and also for those working in the helping professions.

Venue: 155 Langridge St, Collingwood
Fee: $280.00 (Deposit $50 due by 25 June)

For enquiries and applications contact:

The Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne
104 Simpson Street, East Melbourne 3002
Victoria Australia
Tel: (03) 9416 3779
pim@netspace.net.au

www.psychodrama-institute-melbourne.com




Leader Description: Sue Daniel is the director of the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne. She is a psychodramatist, trainer, practitioner, educator, supervisor and a consulting psychologist and psychotherapist in private practice. Her background includes marriage counselling, early childhood and special education and philosophy.

Sue is an international trainer and supervisor in psychodrama, working in four continents for over 30 years. Sue conducted psychodrama and groupwork training workshops and individual supervision sessions in Moscow for five years and assisted in the development of many programmes in Bulgaria, annually travelling and working in and with communities and universities throughout Bulgaria for a decade. She is a regular trainer to Japan, conducting psychodrama training workshops in hospitals, universities and communities throughout this country and in Europe and more recently, in New York.

One of the early pioneers of psychodrama in Australia, she supervised staff in the mental health field using a psychodramatic framework. Sue developed psychodrama programmes in the drug and alcohol field in Australia in the 1980’s and was Vice-president of the Ethnic Alcohol and Drug Dependence Association of Victoria from 1982 to 1984. In 1995 she supervised the preparation of the first Psychodrama and Addictions workshop in Bulgaria, held in the Psychiatrists Department in the Medical University, Varna. In 2002 she conducted a workshop in the National Centre for Addictions in Sofia on the application of psychodrama in this field.

Sue founded the Moreno Psychodrama Society (Aus) in 2003. President of the Australian and New Zealand Psychodrama Association from 1990 to 1994, she was also the Chairperson of the Psychodrama Section of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy from 2000 - 2003. She is on the Scientific Programme Committee for the IAGP Congress in Rome in 2009.

Publications include articles in the American Society of Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy Journal, British Journal of Psychodrama and Sociodrama, Italian Journal of Psychodrama, Korean Association for Psychodrama and Sociodrama Bi-Annual Journal, and the Forum, Journal of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy. She has written psychodrama training curricula and three monographs, Building a Healthy Group Culture: A Psychodramatic Intervention, based on her work in the field of dependency, Through the Mirror: Role Theory Expanded and Psychodrama, Role Theory and the Cultural Atom. Sue is currently writing a book on psychodrama and role theory and has a chapter entitled Psychodrama, Role Theory and the Cultural Atom in the book Psychodrama: Advanced Theories of Psychotherapy, Routledge, 2007.