Lunchtime Reading Groups, Friday 28 March and 30 May 2014

ORIGIN OF THE THERAPEUTIC DRAMA
(First Psychodramatic Session)

Moderator: Dora Oliver

Reference: Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy, First Volume J. L Moreno, Pages 21-24. Paperback edition, ASGPP (1994), (First Edition, Beacon House Inc, 1946)

Dora Oliver will present the chapter, the Origin of the Therapeutic Drama, produced at the Kinderbuehne (Children's Theatre), 1911.

The scene is set for the presentation of a drama "The Deeds of Zarathustra," by a little-known playwright.  The actor in the role of Zarathustra enters.  Just as he begins to act and speak his lines, a spectator steps from the auditorium upon the stage.  The actor is taken by surprise, the scenes and dialogues from this point on are extemporaneous.
Spectator: (looking at the actor): Your eyes are not the eyes of Zarathustra.  Where are the wrinkles and old age of Zarathustra?  Where is his hunchback and his grief?
Actor (looks up, stunned and embarrassed).
And so it goes....
Come along and discuss the nature of the Origin of the Therapeutic Drama with Dora and colleagues.

Where are the Lunchtime Reading Groups being held?  

Downstairs Group Room at PIM at 155 Langridge St, Collingwood 

When? Fridays, 28 March and 30 May from 12.45 - 1.45 p.m sharp. 

Cost? $10.00 donation toward resourcing the 'Zerka T. Moreno' library. 

Tea and freshly brewed coffee provided.  Please bring your own lunch.

Email Enquiries only for March Reading Group: pim@netspace.net.au

To Dream Again

A Memoir

Reference: To Dream Again, Memoir Zerka T. Moreno, MHR, Catskill, New York, Paperback edition 2012, Edited by Edward Schreiber

Moderator: Sue Daniel

"If we are indeed inside our psyche, it is possible to contact one another in various ways with tele, our ability to feel with love into the reality of another person as well as to communicate at a distance.  Tele produces two-way relationships based upon mutually perceiving and accepting the other's truth as reality, not as fantasy.  I know there are psychodrama practitioners who do not accept this premise, but I believe it and see it at work.  It differs from transference, in which feelings are projected in fantasy upon another in a one-way relationship, not meeting with mutual recognition.  The tele phenomenon appears again and again when, in the warm up phase of psychodrama, an auxiliary ego or stand-in is selected by a protagonist to take the role of an absentee who is needed for completion of the interaction.  In many groups the people present have not met one another before, yet often the chosen person, after the psychodrama is completed, will state during sharing, "It's amazing you chose me because...." and out will come a similar history.  Although I have worked in this field for more than sixty years, its power still astonishes me."

When? Friday, 30 May from 12.45 - 1.45 p.m sharp (see details above)

RSVP to Sue on 0417 586 791

Friday Afternoons with Sue Daniel - Personal Development for Professionals in Autumn and Winter, 2014

The Group: Life provides many positive challenges and possibilities, which are ours if we have the courage to take them. The aim of personal development is to live life creatively, spontaneously and with vision. These weekly psychodrama workshops are for those who want to explore and enter into the deeper aspects of self with the aim of developing greater strength, vitality and more effective relationships with self and others. There are opportunities to develop new roles and perspectives, acknowledge, celebrate and value old roles and to resolve minor conflicts of living in your personal or professional life. Psychodrama trainees and practitioners may find these groups ideal to do some additional personal development.

Maximum number in group: 8 

About the Leader: Sue has worked in private practice since 1986, loves yoga and Melbourne skies. She is a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner of Psychodrama and an Individual and Group Psychotherapist.

Series 2 Autumn Dates: 4 Friday Afternoons: 16, 23, 30 May & 6 June from 2 – 5 p.m.

One weeks break followed by:
 
Series 2 Winter Dates: 6 Friday Afternoons: 20, 27 June, 4 July, (not 11 July), 18, 25 July & 1 August from 2 - 5 p.m.

      

Series 1 Fee: $250.00 (Trainees and Practitioners and members of MPS $200.00) Deposit $50.00 due by Monday 5 May 2014. 

Series 2 Fee: $375.00 (Trainees and Practitioners and members of MPS $330.00) Deposit $50.00 due by Monday 16 June.

Enquiries to Sue on: 9416 3779 or 0417 586 791

www.psychodrama-institute-melbourne.com

Theatre of Spontaneity, Sunday 30 March 2014 at 6 p.m

Self Development and Relationships
Presenter: Gavin O'Loughlin

Two aspects of living are our individual development and our relationship connections with others.  There is the idea that we have some drive to develop ourselves in our individual potential and according to our inner calling and that doing so is a good thing.  Then there is the importance of relationships with others and connection to community and family.   There may be conflicts that occur between these two at times.

Are we more attractive to others, who then seek more relationship with us if we attend to the development of our potential?  And would relationships be generally richer if we have developed ourselves more?  Have people experienced relationships getting in the way of their self development or self development getting in the way of relationships or just the opposite of these?  Is developing our ability to do relationships an important part of self development anyway?

In this first Theatre of Spontaneity for 2014 we'll do some exploration of how people have experienced, or think and feel about these two aspects of living.

The THEATRE of SPONTANEITY 

Gather together for a cup of tea or coffee from 6 p.m for a 6.30 p.m sharp start at the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, 155 Langridge St, Collingwood.

$20.00 ($15.00 MPS Members) SUPPER provided!

RSVP by the Friday 27th September to 
Gavin O'Loughin  0403 597 685

www.psychodrama-institute-melbourne.com