Songs That Move Your World with Cath Russell and Jillian Hiscock, Sunday 5 July 2015

The Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne
presents a One-Day Workshop

Songs That Move Your World

We all have music that moves our world. What is it for you? Singing a special song with your family as a child? A song that spoke to you in your adolescence? A song you share with a special partner in a relationship? Something you study or work out to? Something you dance to with friends? Participants are warmly invited to bring in such a song, a recording on your iPod, a cd or to sing or play it to us. We will work with receptive music therapy techniques to listen to the music of participants and psychodrama techniques to explore the ways we are as a group changed by the music we share. This workshop will be especially useful to psychodrama trainees, practitioners and people in a variety of fields who wish to explore new avenues and open up new perspectives on their work or lives.

Date: Sunday, 5 July from 10 am – 5.30 p.m (Previously advertised as 4 July)

Fee: $120.00 (Applications due by Friday, 26 June 2015.

Venue: Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, 1/10-12 Adolph St, Cremorne 3121

This workshop is the first of 3 in a series. One or more may be attended.
Enquiries for all three workshops:
pim@netspace.net.au or directly to Cath on 9755 3013
www.psychodrama-institute-melbourne.com

The Leaders:

Cath Russell is an Australian Registered Music Therapist with Irish heritage and a Psychodrama-Assistant. She works with children in early intervention, adults and children with disabilities and in aged care institutions mainly through welfare and healthcare agencies. The ‘musical child’ continuously inspires her, a role all children can express regardless of their ability or skill. In 2014, she travelled to the Willie Clancy Scoil Samraidh in County Clare Ireland to study and sing with others drawn to Irish culture and music. Cath is excited to share and explore the links between timeless Irish Craic and psychodrama.

Jillian Hiscock has been doing psychodrama for professional development for 25 years. She was a member of a practicum-training group over the past 3 years. Music played a strong role in this group as an expression of emotion and tele and Jillian proving herself as a leader and artist in every respect. She also works in government in management roles and finds psychodramatic processes add great value in working with teams. Jillian is the Secretary/Treasurer of the Moreno Psychodrama Society.

Enquiries: Email: pim@netspace.net.au
Administrator: 0410 536 791

Friday Lunchtime Reading Group, 26 June 2015

Inter Subjectivity and Psychodrama

Moderator: Di Kearney

Moreno understood intuitively and wrote much that continues, and increasingly, to inform contemporary understanding of psychoanalysis neuroscience and infant mental health. Moreno's understandings assertions and theories about us in the world have some roots in this philosophical understanding.

He said, "Roles do not emerge from the self but the self may emerge from roles".

(Role Theory: The Role Concept, in Psychodrama Vol. 1, 1946, pp11-1V, 4^th Edition 1994)

Daniel Stern sees the confirmed existence of mirror neurons (Becchio and Bertone, 2005) as "implicit evidence for an inter subjective matrix suggestive of the human capacity to imitate understand empathise with and synchronise with others". (Stern, The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life - 2004)

Existential phenomenology challenges the worldview of individualism, suggesting, "individual consciousness is actually a part or subsystem of a larger (inter-relational) consciousness" (Midgley, 2006, 100).

The 19th-20th century Japanese philosopher Kitaro Nishida said "It is not that there is experience because there is an individual but that there is an individual because there is an experience."  As quoted in Spinelli, Practicing Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World, 2007.

I'm excited about a discussion we could generate about key aspects of psychodrama in practice and implications for its application.

How do the practices of psychodrama liberate the potential that sits within the new knowledge?  Does this change or deepen the concept of Tele? Is something new generated? How might this change our way of being or doing in psychodrama and in the world?

Lunchtime Reading Group
Last Friday of the month from 12.45 to 1.45 p.m

This group is designed to suit those with an hour to spare at lunchtime. Budding writers, trainees and practitioners are welcome! We will discuss psychodrama works; DVD’s and literature and other related material. A moderator who will send the material, or give it out at the previous meeting for reading or viewing, will lead the discussion.


Dates: 27 Feb, 27 Mar, (no April), 29 May, 26 Jun, 31 Jul, 28 Aug, 25 Sep, 30 Oct. & 27 Nov.

Fee: $10.00 per session includes freshly brewed coffee and selection of teas. BYO lunch.

Enquiries and RSVP: (text or email) 0417 586 791 (And a copy of Moreno's article)

Theatre of Spontaneity with Sue Daniel, Sunday 28th June

A bibliodrama on the written word: How do religious texts and writings assist us in our everyday life?  Can we live in peace with one another?

These are two of the questions we will explore in the June Theatre of Spontaneity. The technique and art of bibliodrama is to bring to life some of the stories, tales, poems and religious texts in a completely different way. In addition bibliodrama give participants the opportunity to imagine alternative viewpoints, bring forward and enact their own views, ideas and thoughts, bring new and fresh interpretations, and thereby making them more relevant to their lives. Bibliodrama enables the group to find out how these texts are relevant to our society today and to explore the close connection between myth and religion. Some of these texts are the Hebrew Bible, Christian Bible, Hindu, Bhagavad Gita, The Koran, a book of Zen Tales, a book of Sufi Tales and Aboriginal dreamtime stories.

I will be using Dr J.L. Moreno’s earliest psychodrama methods and techniques in my presentation, which include axiodrama (1918), sociodrama (1921) bibliodrama and the psychodramatic empty chair.

Axiodrama deals with the activation of religious, ethical and cultural values in spontaneous-dramatic form (Moreno, 1953). A bibliodrama is the application of an action method to any piece of writing (Pitzele, 1998).  The essence of the method is to bring all or certain aspects of a text to the fore and allow participants to imagine the motivations of character, the writers and the motives or meanings of the plots.  Bibliodrama is a high form of spontaneity training.

Sunday 28th June 2015 at 6.00 pm. for 6.30 start – 8.30 finish

RSVP by 26th June to Gavin O'Loughlin  0403 597 685

$15.00 MPS members/$20.00 non-members

The Location is 1/10-12 Adolph St. Cremorne, Victoria

Light refreshment provided

Friends, MPS members and
colleagues are welcome