March Personal Development Workshop with Sue Daniel

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR PROFESSIONALS

3 Friday Afternoons: 13, 20 & 27 March 2015 from 2.15 – 5.15 pm

Group Leader: Sue Daniel

The Group: Life provides many positive challenges and possibilities, which are ours if we have the courage to take them. The aim of self- development is to live life creatively, spontaneously and with vision. These weekly sessions are for those who want to explore and enter into the deeper aspects of self with the aim of developing greater resilience, vitality and more effective relationships with self and others. There are opportunities to develop new roles and perspectives, acknowledge, celebrate and value old roles, to clear obstacles and resolve minor conflicts of living in your personal or professional life.  Maximum number in group: 8

THE LEADER: Sue is a trainer, educator and practitioner of psychodrama, a psychologist and individual and group psychotherapist in private practice since 1986. She is the director of the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, Chairperson of the Australian and Aotearoa Board of Psychodrama and a lover of nature. Sue conducts workshops and training seminars worldwide.

FEE: $270.00 (Dep.$50.00) MPS members $225.00 (Also Medicare rebates)

Applications due by Friday, 6 March

VENUE: PIM, 1/10-12 Adolph St, Cremorne 3121

ENQUIRIES: Sue Daniel 0417 586 791

“Connecting Within” - a one-day Psychodrama Workshop, Saturday, 21 March 2015

The Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne presents

“Connecting Within”

Saturday 21 March 2015, 10am to 5.30pm.

Director: Sharni Page-Cameron

"...Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. 
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? 
Actually, who are you not to be?"  

Marianne Williamson

As an artist you need to be connected within yourself in order to offer yourself and your talents to people who require your skills but don’t necessarily know what is to do what you do.  This experiential workshop will also assist artists to connect with others in corporate, educational or other environments using the spontaneity principles of Psychodrama, such as warm up, setting the scene and role reversal.  This is a workshop to foster personal and professional growth in a group setting for performing artists of all kinds, visual artists, or those who use their artistic skills for their profession, public speakers, those preparing for interviews or auditions, those who are leaders or want to be and those in training.  Bring something for lunch to share.

Fee: $250.00 ($220.00 MPS members)

Application form and deposit of $50 or the full payment is now due.

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

The Director:  Sharni Page-Cameron is an accredited Psychodramatist with the Australian/Aotearoa Board of Psychodrama, committee member of the Moreno Psychodrama Society, 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.

For further details or to register please contact: pim@netspace.net.au

PIM OPENING NIGHT - ALL WELCOME - FRIDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2015

The new year is here, 2015 and what a year it promises to be.  At Adolph Street, (aka Green Dolphin Street after the 1947 movie and accompanying music "On Green Dolphin Street" by the incredible Miles Davis) we are gearing up to the start of the first term of the PIM program and the forthcoming Theatre of Spontaneity organised by the Moreno Psychodrama Society.

The PIM Open Night, which you are all invited to attend is on Friday night, 20 February.  We are gathering together at 7 for a 7.30 p.m start followed by a very creative night, which we will all co-create.

On Saturday and Sunday, 21 & 22 February, I am conducting the first weekend of many for the year, "Being in the Moment - A Solution to Vicarious Trauma".  This workshop is on Psychodrama and Neuroscience.  I'm looking forward to this as the new science really demonstrates the value of action methods and particularly the here and now of the psychodrama method.

On Sunday night, 22 February immediately following the training weekend, Gavin O'Loughlin gets into the swing of the summer with his topic of SUMMER LIVING.  Here is a little peep of what is to come: "What does it mean for our lived experience to be in summer?  Are our relationships different from how they are in other seasons; relationships to individuals and groups we're involved with such as family and friends, work mates, recreational groups and our relationships with animals, the land, sea and sky?  The details are in the previous announcement on the blog including fees and times.

Jun Maeda is visiting us again this year and his first visit is also in February.  He is bringing with him twenty colleagues from Japan and their translator.  I will be conducting a workshop with them on Wednesday and Thursday, 25 & 26 February.  Keep tuned in to the blog because we will also have a few social events around this time.

On Friday 27 February, the first Practitioner's Group meets, followed by the first Lunchtime Reading Group, yes, you may have guessed it, it's on an article I wrote (see text on the column to the right under Writings), on Psychodrama and Neuroscience and this will be the text for discussion.   On Friday afternoon the first session of the Friday Afternoon Monthly Supervision Group begins at 2.15 p.m.

Hell, we haven't got to the training sessions yet!  Level 1 gets going Thursday 26th of February, Level 3, Wednesday the 25th and Level 2 commences on Tuesday 24th of Feb, all starting at 7.30 p.m.

I think I will leave the month of March to another time except to announce Sharni Page-Cameron's One-Day Psychodrama Workshop on Saturday, 21st of March, "Connecting Within".

Check the website for our 2015 PROGRAM and see you soon!

Theatre of Spontaneity, 22 February 2015.

TOPIC: Summer Living.

What does it mean for our lived experience to be in summer?  Are our relationships different from how they are in other seasons; relationships to individuals and groups we're involved with such as family and friends, work mates, recreational groups and our relationships with animals, the land, sea and sky?

How are we bodily in summer?  There's the skin, the hair, clothes, what and how much we eat and drink, how active we are, how we sleep and so on.

Which qualities emerge and which recede in summer?

PS. This is our first Theatre of Spontaneity for 2015 and the first in PIM's new premises as well, so it's exciting in various ways and one not to miss.  See you there!

Director: Gavin O'Loughlin

Sunday 22 February 2015 at 6.00 pm. for 6.30 start – 8.30 finish

RSVP by Friday 19 February to Gavin O'Loughlin  0403 597 685

$15.00 MPS members/$20.00 non-members 

The Location is 1/10-12 Adolph St, Cremorne (near the East Richmond Railway Station)

Light refreshment provided

All welcome

First Friday Lunchtime Reading Group, 2015

Hi

The first meeting for the PIM READING GROUP is Friday, 27 February 2015 at 1/10-12 Adolph St, Cremorne Street from 12.30 to 1.45 p.m.   I am the moderator for the first meeting and the article is one I wrote and was published in the British Psychodrama Association's Newsletter last year. The article, “Neuroscience and Psychodrama” can be found on the right hand side of this page under "Writings". 

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: 9827 3994

Keep cool,
Sue
M: 0417 586 791

Looking Forward to the New Year

Katrina Gaskin is living in Melbourne once more, after several years working as a counsellor and conducting psychodrama training at the Psychodrama Institute of Aotearoa (New Zealand) on the Kapiti Coast in the North Island.  In 2015 she joins the PIM Faculty as an accredited Trainer, Educator and Practitioner (TEP) in Psychodrama.  She is conducting her private practice from the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, 1/10-12 Adolph St, Cremorne (near the East Richmond Railway station), beginning early in January 2015.  For appointments for counselling or supervision sessions with Katrina please call her on 0455 254 801.

Theatre of Spontaneity - 2015

 

Click here to download a printable pdf version of the flier

Love and Blessings to Bob and Linda - Our Heroes

Dear Sue,

We were surprised to get your email about your change of address - lots of new things happening.  We shall miss seeing you at Simpson Street as there as some lovely memories we hold dear from there.  We hope you settle in to your new home well and that 2015 is a great year for you.

We recently received notification that we were both to be awarded the National Emergency medal for our contribution on Black Saturday and the 2009 fires.  The  presentation was last Sunday and it was quite amazing - the boys and Bob's daughter Meg came and were very complimentary and congratulated us.  It was bigger than I expected, very formal.  They called us heroes - I was very moved.  Daniel has taken the attached photos and I have taken a close up photo of the medals, both the new Commonwealth Emergency Services medal and my CFA (Country Fire Authority) 10 year service medal.  I feel very proud to have something like this to hand down to the family.  I felt nervous and quite emotional during the ceremony remembering a lot of what happened during the period of the 2009 fires and that stayed with me for some time afterwards.  Others clearly felt the same as me.  This ceremony gives us some added sense of closure and reframes our experience somewhat.

Have a wonderful and safe Christmas, and we look forward to seeing you new year.

Love and Best Wishes,
Linda and Bob xoxo

Happy Christmas, Happy Holiday Season and Happy New Year from the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne

At the Moreno Psychodrama Society Christmas Party...

love and blessings...

To all our members and trainees, practitioners and trainers.

New Papers in the PIM Library

The Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne is proud to include the following new papers in our library, the final ones for 2014:

"Promoting Victim Empathy through Psychodrama Technique: Teaching Offenders to know through Feeling" by Melas Khole formally known as Daniel James.  No. 103.

"The Dance of Parenthood: Comfortably Me.  Authentically You." by Sharni Page-Cameron. No. 104

"Joining the Dots" by Ling Mu. No. 105

"Using Sociometry and Sociometric Activities to Build a Team at the National Institue of Research Tuberculosis (N.I.R.T)" by Magdalene Jeyarathnam (Indian Trainee).  No. 106

"Being in the Moment" by Helen Baker.  No. 107