PIM presents a One-Day Training Workshop in September with Sharni Page-Cameron

    Finding Your Yellow Brick Road:                       

The Key to Unlocking New Avenues of Being

 Sunday, 6 September 2015 from 10 am to 5.30 pm.

Would you like to find new ways of living and working that are enlivening and enriching?  Would you like to feel “lighter” and less burdened by the weight of past experience?  Do you dream of wonderful possibilities but stop yourself short before allowing those possibilities to be?  Come along to this experiential workshop and reawaken your potential with Sharni as she uses the spontaneity principles of Psychodrama to help unblock your creativity.  This is a day to reconnect with your inner self so that you may see things anew. Those in training, education, corporate business and parents will enjoy the benefits of this personal and professional development group setting.  Please bring something for lunch to share.

Fee: $200.00 ($150.00 PIM trainees/MPS members) Application form with $50.00 deposit or full payment due by Friday, 19 August 2015 – see website for details.

Venue: Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, Cremorne, Melbourne

The Director: Sharni Page-Cameron is an accredited Psychodramatist with the Australian & Aotearoa Board of Psychodrama, a member of the Moreno Psychodrama Society, a professional performer, playwright and composer. She graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2000 and has worked professionally in theatre, television, voiceovers, corporate and educational settings ever since.  Sharni is also a Mum of three young children.

Enquiries: E: pim@netspace.net.au      

Administrator: M: 0410 536 791

Friday Lunchtime Reading Group, 31 July 2015

Inter Subjectivity, Neuroscience and Psychodrama

Moderator: Gavin O'Loughlin

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". (Daniel N. Stern, The Present Moment: In Psychotherapy and Everyday Life.  W.W Norton: New York, 97-103- 2007.

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. Sage Publications, Los Angeles - 2004, 11-17) 

This July Lunchtime Reading group further expands the discussion that Di Kearney began in the June Reading Group to include DanYaniv's viewpoint as set out in his article:

 
"Revisiting Morenian psychodramatic encounter in light of contemporary neuroscience: Relationship between empathy and creativity" - The Arts in Psychotherapy, 38 (2011) 52-58

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 phone only) 0403 597 685 (for reference material)

Theatre of Spontaneity, July 26 - If I were a Child I would......?

If I were a child I would...?

Sunday July 26th, 2015

6-8.30pm

Director: Sharni Page-Cameron

What are your memories as a child? What does your young self look like?  If you could talk to your young self what would you express to them?  What might they express to you?

Children are full of wonder, they do not judge and they do not have expectations.  Children challenge the rules and are connected with their feelings.  Children are spontaneous and creative, inquisitive and accepting, trusting and innocent, open and resilient, and most of all, children are full of love.

And then….we become adults.

JL Moreno observed when working with children, that as they grow older they become less spontaneous, less creative, and more anxious and cautious as society moulds them into ‘socially appropriate’ beings becomes stronger.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to get out of our adult heads for a while and embody the lifeful essence of a child again?  Well we can.

Come along and experience a playful, creative and enriching evening where our inner child is welcomed with open arms to help us bridge the gap between life as a child and life as an adult.

RSVP by 25th July to Gavin O'Loughlin  0403 597 685 

$15.00 MPS members/$20.00 non-members 

The Location is Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne

1/10-12 Adolph St. Cremorne, Victoria 

Light refreshment provided 

Friends, MPS members and colleagues are welcome