Two Weeks of Psychodrama: 29 April - 13 May 2012

Next year, we have a plethora of psychodrama happening between Terms 1 & 2 in Melbourne.  There is something for everyone:

Firstly, there is a Theatre of Spontaneity on Sunday, 29 April from 6 - 8.30 p.m.  Then the following weekend, the Moreno Psychodrama Society and PIM present their one-day conference, "The River of Life: Navigating Change" on Saturday, 5 May at the Abbotsford Convent.  On Sunday & Monday, 6 & 7 May, Lethe & Katrina Gaskin (from New Zealand) lead a two-day "Psychodrama Training Workshop".  On Friday afternoon, 11 May, Clark Baim (UK) presents an experiential and didactic seminar on "Psychodrama and working with violent and/or sexually aggressive offenders." Sue Daniel conducts a "Trainer Development Workshop for Trainers" on Saturday & Sunday, 12 & 13 May.

The Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne has named its library, the Zerka T. Moreno library in honour of her ongoing published writing.  We trust that we will have Zerka's Autobiography, soon to be published, for sale at the conference along with some other books on psychodrama.

A new link has been set up on this blog (see on the right of this page) under the sub-section "Writings".  This is a resource for trainees and practitioners to view or share each others written work, finished or in development.  If you have any such work you wish to share please send it to me and we will be happy to post it on the blog for all to see.  The first contributor is Lorraine Michael with an interesting article entitled, "Mr. Inkle-ment: the Weather Man". 

Whose Christmas? A Play directed by Sharni Page-Cameron

Sharni invites you to "Whose Christmas?" at Club Voltaire,
in North Melbourne, Thursday 8, Friday 9, Saturday 10 December 2011.

A Message from Zerka T. Moreno

In a letter to me, Zerka Moreno said, "...When I met Moreno in 1941, how could I have known that eventually he would have a Society in his name in Australia? Of course, that is what we worked hard for, to have those labors carried on around the globe...So this is a hearty Thank You from the other side, for your very own contribution to our field. Everyone of you is very much needed. Keep up the good work..."

Inspiring words for us all,
Sue Daniel

November News: Sociodrama in Greece

Ioanna Gagani, (the first trainee to become an accredited psychodramatist with the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne) sent news recently about a workshop she conducted in her native Greece. Here is an excerpt:

"We did a great sociodrama last week in my group.
The Scene: the Greek Prime Minister, the opposition leader, the German and French prime ministers, the IMF, the media and the Greek people all met at Spinalonga (a tiny island in Crete where they used to send all the lepers) to talk about Greece. It was great and what stood out the most was that NO ONE even looked at the Greek people while they were discussing the future of the country!"

Ioanna will be in Melbourne with her husband, James and twin boys, Paris and Alexander from the 19th of December until 16 January.

Photo: Jenny Clifton and Ioanna Gagani at PIM in 2001.

Please click on the image below......

The Human Resonance with Films, Books & Stories

This is the theme for the October Theatre of Spontaneity.

John De Bono is the conductor of the next ToS. He is using an intriguing new form of psychodrama, Narrative-Drama.

Theatre of Spontaneity

Date: Sunday, 30 October 2011 from 6.30 - 8.30 p.m.

Venue: Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, 155 Langridge St, Collingwood

Fee: $20.00 ($15.00 for MPS members)

Seeking Asylum

Is there a just solution?

The Rerum Novarum Oration 2011

Orator

Bishop Vincent Long van Nguyen OFMConv

Vincent Long van Nguyen born 3 December 1961 in Gia-Kiem Vietnam. Escaping from Vietnam in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, he arrived in Australia in December 1981 after a perilous voyage by boat.

Appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI in May 2011, Bishop Vincent is the first person of Vietnamese background to hold this position and proudly the first asylum seeker elevated to such Office.

Respondent

Hon. Malcolm Fraser, AC, CH, CGL, PC

John Malcolm Fraser born 21 May 1930 in Melbourne to a family long steeped in politics and grazing.

He was elected to Parliament in 1955, serving as Minister in a variety of portfolios including Defence, and Education and Science. He was elected as Australia’s 22nd Prime Minister in 1975, and retired in 1983.

Since leaving parliament, Mr Fraser has played an eminent role in international relations, appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia.

Tuesday 11 October 2011 • 7pm for 7.30pm start

Central Hall, 20-22 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Light refreshments available from 7pm

Information: Mark Clarke (03) 9926 5727

RSVP: Friday, 7 October 2011 • justice@cam.org.au

Hearts and Souls

Last night's Theatre of Spontaneity brought to light the fact that when we are talking about refugees and boat people, we are talking about hearts and souls.

As a warm up to the evening I invited the group members to create a world map, asking "where do your ancestors come from?" No one came from Australia. All had migrated here, were sponsored or came as a refugee, most had come by boat, some by plane.

We explored through sociometry and axiodrama what was special or pertinent to each country.

A little later we explored through the Living Newspaper, the question, "Do Australians realize what is being done in their name?" There followed three very poignant sociodramatic vignettes. Using many techniques including multiple role holding (multiple doubles on the stage), role tagging, concretization and scene setting we created a strata of meaning from the stereotypical to the typical, atypical and archetypal.

Thanks to sociodrama new perspectives were gained, new realizations dawned and new relationships were formed.

As one person later wrote to me in an email, ..."and the group was awesome." It's true, they were. What a night!

Today I have even more energy, feel more loving and enabled. Silence is a killer, being able to share is a great release and brings about transformation. Even worldwide.

This morning I woke up and the first thing I heard when I turned on the wireless was the voice of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Yes, on Sunday, the 25th of September he granted women the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, the biggest change in a decade for women in a kingdom that practices strict separation of the sexes that includes banning women from driving. He not only announced that the cabinet had decided that women would be able to vote but that they would be able to take part in the council business. Early in the twentieth century women won the right to vote in England, and now, relatively early in the 21st Century, women in Saudi Arabia have the right to vote. Here is hope and progress indeed.

Thanks to such a great turn up we were able to donate a whopping $200.00 to the Refugee Action Collective, Victoria. They were most grateful.

Sue Daniel

For Quinn

Liliana writes, "I ran a support group today at the Gippsland RSL. Browsing through some literature on World War 1, I bumped into a poem by a man named J. Quinn; an ANZAC in battle who recorded his experiences through poetry. I was very moved, and almost brought to tears. This is my tele, my connection with him."

For Quinn

I read a poem today,

Of a Man,

Surrounded by grey.

I read a poem today,

Of a Man, a life,

With Pain.

I read a poem today,

Of an ANZAC,

With life; with pain.

And the grey that you

Have shared,

It resonates in so many

Other ways,

And with hope,

Of Shields to come,

The grey once was,

Will dawn give Love,

Light.

For you, with love.

Liliana Melone.

Leadership Weekend with Sue Daniel

Saturday & Sunday, 8 & 9 October 2011 from 10 a.m - 5.30 p.m

There are several places left in the forthcoming leadership training weekend. With spring arriving, its time to refresh, air out the cupboards and throw open the windows. Time to get some new things going or to build on things already started.

This workshop is about group work, supervised directing and dramatic enactments. The major focus is on developing and refining group leadership abilities and the establishment of vital relationships.

There is a major training focus in three areas: 1) The knowledge and practical application of role theory, 2) Addressing practical problems encountered in work or life and, 3) Enhancement of your relationship with yourself and others.

Learning will be experiential, based on the interests and concerns of the participants, who can expect significant personal and professional progress. This workshop is designed for those people already in a training process or are leaders, and also those who want to use experiential methods in their work.

Fee: $350.00 ($300.00 for PIM trainees and MPS members) (Dep.$50.00 due by 26 Sept.)

A write; A process

Compelled to write – I, tell you!

Compelled!

Into,

The writing process.

That tumultuous, exhilarating,

Momentous moment.

The urge to write IS process.

Unfolding layers – Need.

To write; express a moment.

To capture it;

In all its magnificent story.

Glory.

The urge to write is enthralling.

To give the cosmos – Words.

To reach the incomprehensible:

To change the thorn,

And calm a storm.

Liliana Melone

Let's not miss the boat! Taking a look at society through the lens of Sociodrama.

Boat People: A Sociodrama for Our Time is the title for the September Theatre of Spontaneity.

Held at PIM, from 6.30-8.30 p.m this coming Sunday, 25 September we will be using sociodrama to explore questions such as what is a refugee and what is it to be Australian. This in light of the plight of the people who come to these shores in boats, and also through other means, in the hope of creating a new life for themselves and their families.

Why not just let them in? Give them a roof, a bed, food, make them comfortable, welcome them. According to Arnold Zable, a Melbourne writer, this is what sea and desert people do when faced with the stranger, the new comer.

But what of the method we are using at this coming Theatre of Spontaneity?

Sociodrama is a drama - a happening - of the people (in a society aka the socius). Unscripted, participants explore and create in action the themes, events or issues at hand. Sociodrama is the highest form of creativity and spontaneity, allowing new ideas, new perspectives, which can then pave the way for new action, new directions, relationships and new life.

The creative genius resides in all of us, no experts, no actors are necessary. The sociodrama is of the people, for the people and by the people.

Sue Daniel

RSVP by 23 September 2011 on 94163779

Gaza: Psychodrama without borders

Here is a video about 17 minutes from interviews and scenes from Ursula Hauser's video of the group of psychodramatists in training who just graduated from her program in Gaza, Palestine, if anyone is interested. It's in English with Spanish Subtitles (because she also trains in Central America) as well as living and working in Switzerland.
(Link to original video:http://vimeo.com/23181904 )

What does it mean to be a refugee? What does it mean to be an Australian?

Julian Burnside QC, wrote an article recently about the plight of refugees coming into Australia by boat ("Australians don't fully understand what is being done in their name" - The Age, 26 August 2011 p.13).

Referred to as 'boat people' by many, surely those who are escaping from intolerable conditions are first of all, 'people', people who are escaping by any means possible.

This article of Julian's touched me quite deeply. I began to think of what it means to migrate to another country, to leave a home and come to another place. What does it mean to be locked up with your baby, children or loved ones, for over a decade in some cases? Can you imagine that? What is it like to be homeless? What is it like not to have a voice?

At this next Theatre of Spontaneity we will concretize and explore on our stage, create through a sociometric and sociodramatic exploration and enable through action and movement our views to come to light, with the views of others, what it means to be a refugee, what it means to be an Australian, and see whether we fully understand what is being done in our name.

When? Sunday, 25 September from 6.30 - 8.30 p.m
Where? Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne
Fee: $20.00 ($15.00 for MPS members)
RSVP (03) 94163779 by Friday 23 September 2011

All welcome!

Please feel free to post any responses, comments or email me at MorenoSociety@netspace.net.au with any suggestions, pictures or thoughts.

Sue Daniel

At the Theatre of Spontaneity, Sunday 28 August...

Let's have more of what's good...

Holidays
nice food
sleep
rest
friends
relationships
good work teams
gardening
dreaming
going to the footy
thinking about the cricket and more....

And blow away the winter chills

How do we bring these things about?

Come to the Theatre of Spontaneity this Sunday night..

Presenter: Sue Daniel

Where: Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne
155 Langridge St
Collingwood

Time: 6.30 - 8.30 p.m.

RSVP 0417 586 791

Cost: $20.00 ($15.00 MPS members)

Supper provided by the Moreno Psychodrama Society

Fishing in the Outback - A Sociometric Approach

Yogita Thompson is a psychodramatist and family & relationship counsellor, living and working in Kununurra, Western Australia. This article and the next reflect her experience in working with indigenous people. The following is about her work co-creating a woman's group and the second is a poem which she wrote after attending a funeral.

The Women's Fishing Group that I facilitate has been put up for an Anglicare National award for Innovative Program. So Thelma (85 yr old elder) who I've co-jointly developed the group with is happy to have the recognition. Developing this group has been a cultural journey for us both. We started by talking about women in the community and about developing a women's group. First year we had little attendance. Second year we got feed back they wanted to be able to go fishing. So that was the starting point for the group. After 2½ years the group has developed an indigenous culture and the women have a sense of ownership of the group while new women continue to attend.

Yogita

A young man took his life by Yogita

A young man took his life.

A knot in a rope strangled the last breathe from him. The rope tied to the tree held strong. It did not snap.
The knot was the right one for what he chose to do. It all worked so well.
But now he’s gone.
But why had he tied the rope to the tree?

No-one was saying,
They gathered around his grave.
A somber mood was felt
Some kids stood still while others expressed their preference for play.

The knot took the young man’s life,
The knot at the end of the rope
That was tied to the tree.
But why was the rope tied to the tree?

Wailing expressed the grief in the hearts of the mourners.
Olgawoman sat still
memories of past loss and grief stirred within them.
Sorrow’s net cast over them.

The knot took the young man’s life,
The knot at the end of the rope
That was tied to the tree.
But why was the rope tied to the tree?

The family sat at the head of the grave,
A cold stiff lifeless body of one who was so young lay before them.
One by one mourners’ threw a hand full of sand onto the coffin.
The ritual continued.

The knot took the life of the young man.
The knot at the end of the rope
That was tied to the tree.
But why was the rope tied to the tree?

Emotions were stirring but were not expressed.
This was not the first time.
It had happened before.
More sand was thrown onto the grave.

The knot took the life of the young man.
The knot at the end of the rope,
That was tied to the tree.
But why was the rope tied to the tree?

No-one spoke of it
The faces of the family appeared blank and dazed.
What emotions lay behind their blankness
Grief was obvious.

The knot took the life of the young man.
The knot at the end of the rope,
That was tied to the tree.
But why was the rope tied to the tree?

A man built solid, tall and strong picked up some sand and stood at the head of the grave.
With bold words and a cracked voice he broke the silence.
He said,
I was like a father to this lad.
He’d got a job and was doing well.
I was proud of him and wanted him to stay with me
But he was worried about his family so he came back here.
And now today I’ve come from Karada to bury him.
The grog’s killin your kids
Your putting grog before your kids.
You gotta look after your kids and lovem
They’re your future
I loved this boy with all my heart ,
Now he’s gone.
I’ve come all the way from Karada to bury him.

A shiver past over,
All knew he spoke the truth
The tall solid man from Karada with tears in his eyes expressed why the rope had been tied to a tree.

Myths, Dreams and Old, Old Stories

Myths, Dreams and Old, Old Stories - A PIM Elective

Director: Marie Watt (see photo below)

An exploration of the 'Once-upon-a-Time' of the human imagination and its 'Here-and-Now' dimensions by bringing together the themes of personal dreams and those of fairy tale, folk tale and myth. The medium will be psychodrama, the canvas - individual and group experience, the possibilities - endless! Bring along the stories, which have sustained, frightened, puzzled, and questioned you ever since you were a child and some of the dreams, which, each night, perform the very same function. This group is open to trainees as one of their elective workshops and to anyone interested in exploring the imaginative life.

Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 20 & 21 August 2011 from 10 a.m – 5.30 p.m both days.

Fee: $150.00 (Deposit $50.00 due by Friday 5 August).

For enquiries and postal address for applications telephone 9416 3779

July Theatre of Spontaneity - Sociometry at Work

Sociometry at Work

Organizations can be complex places with their own lexicon and focus on deliverables, end points and evidence based outcomes. Attention to sociometry and organizational dynamics optimize desired results through attention to process. Strategic Planning has a hard edge that requires a complementary approach to humanize, engage and release peoples’ creativity. This Theatre of Spontaneity will explore ways of engagement that focuses on relationships and organizational development through play, story and spirit.

John De Bono is a psychodramatist and organizational consultant who works as a facilitator, trainer and coach (photo above, Marie Watt with John de Bono)

Date: Sunday, 31 July 2011 from 6.30 - 8.30 p.m.

Where? Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, 155 Langridge St, Collingwood

Fee: $20.00 ($15.00 for MPS members)

A Greeting from Zerka Moreno on our 10th Anniversary

Hello, Psychodrama Friends,

When I met Moreno in 1941, how could I have known that eventually he would have a Society in his name in Australia? Of course, that is what we worked hard for, to have those labors carried on around the globe.

And that is exactly what you are doing under the energetic, devoted guidance of Sue Daniel.

So this is a hearty Thank You from the other side, for your very own contribution to our field. Everyone of you is very much needed.

Keep up the good work.

I will be with you in spirit.

Love, Zerka

Special thanks to the Moreno Psychodrama Society Committee

Dear Committee Members

Many thanks for the great effort and beautiful evening that was created largely by you as well as our guests last Friday, 22 July 2011.

Special thanks to John, Jillian, Stephanie, Daniel, Patricia, Ling, Hien, Danielle and Cath, our "chanteuse" on the evening.

Also thanks to Cath's husband Pete, who accompanied her on keyboards (see photos below), Ted, Julia, and the various family members of our committee members for their contributions on the night.

Thank you!
Sue

PIM's 10th Birthday, 22 July 2011

New literature in the PIM library

The library is expanding weekly. Anyone interested in research articles on psychodrama ought to be interested this week. For example:

• Corrective Interpersonal Experience in Psychodrama Group Therapy: A Comprehensive Process Analysis of Significant Therapeutic Events by Charmaine McVie et al. (2011)

• When Puppets Speak: Dialectical Psychodrama within Developmental Child Psychotherapy by Leni Verhofdstadt-Deneve et al. (2009) (Leni presented at the 2006 Moreno Society's "Giving Life" Conference in Melbourne)

• Drama as a Means of Preventing Post-Traumatic Stress following Trauma within a Community by Robert J. Landy. (2010)

June Theatre of Spontaneity with Marie E. Watt

Landscapes of the Heart

From what country/place is your being forged?

"Return this winter Sunday, 26 June from 6.30-8.30 p.m and appreciate the features which still warm and strengthen you.."

Where: At PIM, 155 Langridge St, Collingwood
Fee: $20.00 ($15.00 MPS members)

World Dreaming - An Invitation to an Encounter

The 6th World Congress for Psychotherapy is being held in Sydney from the 24th-28th of August 2011. The theme is "World Dreaming".
Lorraine Michael, psychodramatist and MPS member is conducting a session at this congress based on her psychodrama work in the psychiatric field.

An Invitation to an Encounter: The function and value of Psychodramatic formulations - a crucial process of inpatient psychotherapy, care and treatment.

Abstract:

In this paper, I demonstrate how Psychodramatic formulations can offer a unique epistemological dimension to the care and treatment of people on an Acute Inpatient Psychiatric setting. Through the presentation of pieces of individual Psychodrama work, I demonstrate the use of 'role reversal' and 'doubling', in assisting individuals to make meaning of both their explicit and implicit experiences. As an auxilliary, I illustrate how I extend this understanding in some meaningful way to the wider treating team, so as to deepen our shared understanding of key conflicts/tensions underpinning people's clinical presentation. In this, I argue how a Systemic conceptualization often reveals deeply buried/hidden wounds/trauma that have continued to plague the lives of these individuals, disguised as 'symptomatology'. In the world of acute psychiatry, where psychotherapy is, at the best of times deemed futile or even a 'luxury' for the 'elite' few, I establish the centrality of Psychodrama as a necessary ingredient in bridging the trauma-healing divide, as well as, towards understanding and empowering the Other in their own healing and growth. Most importantly, this paper reaffirms that our warm-up must be to the 'Person' in front of us, and that, it is when we relate mutually as people, as beings in an I-Thou encounter, that it is this which is deeply healing. Psychodrama, just like the "world's longest surviving culture", is indeed well and alive and thriving, in the world today. "World Dreaming" indeed!

PIM's 10th Birthday !!

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Moreno Psychodrama Society - May Subscriptions

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. Time surely does fly with Term 2 training at PIM already begun, party planning underway - yes, PIM is celebrating 10 years of co-creating its training institute. The celebration date is Friday 22 July, exactly 10 years to the day when we began our institute at the venue of the Uniting Church in Nicholson Street, Abbotsford. Within two years we had our own building at Langridge Street which has provided a very nice home for MPS, PIM, the Theatre of Spontaneity and for our community.

As all of you are aware, MPS membership runs out each financial year. Within the coming week we will be in the process of sending membership fee notices for the next financial year to all of our current members. Do keep an eye out for your renewal in the mail. It is coming with your party invitation. Please be sure to send the notice back to us with your payment details so that we can keep your membership up to date.













We hope you all have a fantastic and invigorating month and enjoy those wonderful Victorian sunrises and sunsets!

MPS Committee

The Moreno Psychodrama Society Month of May Poetry Slam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Presenter: Daniel James

The Japanese art form Haiku forms the warming up for May's Theatre of Spontaneity.
A Haiku Poem is composed thus:

Five Syllables
Seven Syllables
Five Syllables

The short form tells a story minimalistically which encourages the writer to really focus on the most descriptive words and phrases.

My house is burned
But the cherry tree in my garden
Scatters its blossoms
As if nothing has happened.

(Anonymous)

(Italics mine: Sue Daniel -
After the Japanese Tsunami, 11 March 2011, I decided to sit in the sun and read some haiku from the book, "The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches". This one (above) is a favourite of the great Japanese Haiki Poet, Matsuo Basho, written by a friend of his after his house burned down. It is of course translated into English and may not completely follow Haiku form).

Daniel James continues.....

However creative juices can flow to create a Haiku chain whereby the last line of the first poem constitutes the first line of the next Haiku and so on.
Bring your creative juices
5
7
5
and see what creativity in the written word can bring to creativity in action.

See you at the Theatre of Spontaneity, Sunday 29 May from 6.30-8.30 p.m
PIM, 155 Langridge Street
Fee: $20.00 ($15.00 MPS members) A light supper is served.

RSVP John De Bono 0429 427 873

Dr Seuss in Japan

Dear Friends,

I had a Child-Aid Piano Concert at a City Hall in the Tokyo metropolitan area tonight.

A friend of mine, an internationally renowned concert pianist played a modern piece of music written by Elliott Carter. I interviewed her, then led a large group talking with the audience of about 70 people. I read a picture book at the end asking the audience for a child-aid donation. We really had a special time together to enlarge our self having been shrunk more or less.

My helping activities are with young colleagues in Tokyo and colleagues in a base camp in MIYAGI now. Then we get into second stage to prevent ASD and PTSD from the first aid we had been engaging in. Many teachers and mothers are needed to help to know how they can be with their children and how and what they can tell their children.

My reading a picture book was a demonstration of "Reading Picture book Therapy" I am calling and telling people how it can work as a very curative method for such a time. I am going to make a simple manual as everyone, I mean layman (or women, italics mine), can do it. I tried how it works in a small group at the last town meeting and did it again in a large group. I am convinced it is surely effective and anyone can do it. Even children can do it each other and it can be good for elder people, too. I received some donations and much warm feelings from people about what I am doing and the planning of the second step activities. This is one of my ways of demonstrating feeling for people and myself in this hard situation. It is happiness for me to feel the warmth of such a warm people who shares love and dedicate mutual aid without sparing oneself.

The picture book I read tonight is "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" by Dr. Seuss. It is interesting that the translation into Japanese of the Japanese version seems to me Japanese like. It was emphasized rather Self not Ego. The modern music of Eliot Carter written in 1945, a piano sonata, seems to me conveying astonishingly a great harmony and strength of Mother Earth. So when I read the picture book by Dr. Seuss with my own translation done more straightforwardly it worked very well.

In this way, we are stepping forward.

Best wishes,

Hide

We welcome Sadie!

Dear Sharni,
Love and best wishes to you and Sadie,
from all your friends at the Moreno Psychodrama Society and PIM.

Welcome Gracie!

Another new arrival in the social atom, Gracie, puppy of Jil Toovey and Gary.

Events at PIM in March

After the Opening night, 25 February, where we welcomed not only new and old trainees and their guests, but also psychodrama practitioners, the PIM training program recommenced this week. Nikki Alderman is teaching the Level 1 group on Tuesday nights, Sue Daniel is taking the Level 2 group on Wednesday evenings and Simon Parker is teaching the Advanced Training Group, Level 3, on Thursday nights.

Training events beginning in March:
1. Tomorrow, Friday 4 March from 9.30 a.m to 12.30 p.m sees the start of a series of supervision seminars led by Sue, "Active Listening: Psychodrama in One-to-One Counselling and Individual Psychotherapy".

2. The PIM Elective ongoing series "The Past is the Present" begins on Friday, 11 March from 9.30 a.m to 12.30 p.m. There are 8 sessions conducted by Sue.

3. The Supervision Group for Practitioners begins on Friday, 18 March from 2 - 5 p.m. There are five bi-monthly sessions throughout the year.

4. On the 25th of March the Psychodrama Practitioners Group will hold their second meeting for the year, on last Friday of the month from 9.30 a.m - 12.30 p.m.

5. On Saturday 26 March the Practicum Training Group will meet from 10 a.m - 5.30 p.m.

For all training enquiries ring (03) 9416 3779

Personal and Professional Workshops
1. The first series of Simon Parker's personal development groups "Psychodrama Wellbeing Groups" began February 14 and will conclude March 28. Enquiries for the next series: 0417 351 239.


2. Sue Daniel is conducting a Personal growth group for professionals entitled "Exploring your Path". The first group (3 sessions) begins 25 March and continues 1st and 8th of April. Enquiries: 0417 586 791.

Theatre of Spontaneity
On Sunday March 27, the Moreno Psychodrama Society hosts the second Theatre of Spontaneity for 2011.

Questions and Answers
&
Wherever they lead you
In the moment

Director: Phil Smalley

(With thanks to Bernard Pivot)

Doors open at 6 p.m for a 6.30 p.m start. A light supper is served at the conclusion of the evening, 8.30 p.m. Entrance fee is $20.00 for non-members and $15.00 for members of MPS. Pay at the door.

Enquiries or RSVP: John De Bono 0429 427 873

New Arrival in the Social Atom

Jenny Clifton, Mark and Taya welcome their new kelpie dog, Audrey.

Tonight: The Theatre of Spontaneity

PIM News - Opening 25 February 2011

The Opening Night of PIM for the 2011 year is Friday 25 February 2011 at 7.30 p.m concluding at 10.30 p.m.. A light supper is served. Friends and colleagues of trainees and practitioners are welcome to attend. The evening provides a unique opportunity to meet trainees from all levels, practitioners and members of the faculty.We are pleased to say we have some new books and articles in the library:

1. Trial in Action: The Persuasive Power of Psychodrama by Joane Garcia-Colson, Fredilyn Sison and Mary Peckham. Hardback. Trial in Action is about the use of psychodrama by Trial Lawyers in present day USA.



2. A Clinician's Guide to Psychodrama by Eva Leveton. This is a third edition of Eva's first book, entitled "Psychodrama for the Timid Clinician". Paperback.
3. The First Psychodramatic Family by J. L. Moreno, Zerka T. Moreno and Jonathan Moreno, a new 2011 edition by The North-West Psychodrama Association. This book is a must for all Family Therapists, for those bringing up chidren and for anyone interested in the early years of psychodrama with the Moreno's. Paperback.
4. The Theatre of Spontaneity by J. L. Moreno. Hardback. (Back in the library after an absence).
5. The Quintessential Zerka edited by Toni Horvatin and Edward Schrieber. Hardback. On loan from my personal library for trainees only).

Books and articles are available to be borrowed outside of term by MPS members and trainees. In term (6 weeks) the library is exclusively for the use of trainees and trainers. The borrowing period is two weeks. All material that was borrowed over the Christmas and New Year period must be returned by the start of term. Thanks everyone! Watch this space for new works and articles.

This is PIM's tenth year of psychodrama. We are having a party on Friday 22 July, put the date in your diaries. Bring friends and family.

Best wishes on your psychodrama journey this year,

Sue Daniel