Photographs from Sue Daniel's Birthday Party

Saturday 3 February 2007

What a beautiful party! Thank you. From the lovely invitation, beautiful cake, red and white decorations which extended to the flower arrangements, the band with didgeridoo, drums, flute, keyboard and guitar, yummy home cooked horsd'oeuvres to the friends and family present - all 75. Thank you for the gift of your presence to join me in celebrating my 60th birthday and, for your thoughtful gifts, including the poems, songs and collage.

An extra thanks to the creators of this wonderful surprise, Ted, Nikki, Lethe, Katrina, Helen, Lisa, Michele and Kate and her band members.

It was also my 30th anniversary in psychodrama - pretty much to the day - I feel very lucky and happy to have my oldest friends and new together at this time.

Thanks for your love. xx Sue

Weekend Workshop - March

Psychodrama Group at PIM

Facilitators:
Simon Parker - Psychodramatist & Psychologist
Julie Lacy - Psychodramatist & Psychotherapist

Great opportunity to explore your life issues and relationships and to make some changes in these groups.

Saturday/Sunday 24/25 March 2007
10am-5pm
Fee $180 & $150 (unwaged/concession)

Also 6 Mondays 7-10pm commences April 16 just after Easter

telephone: Simon 0417351239 Info: www.psychodrama.net.au

The PIM Library

The library's catalogue is being expanded with new material including books and articles.
The latest articles (2006) by PIM students and practitioners are as follows:

1. Katrina Gaskin, 'One Perfect Night'
2. Lorraine Michael, 'Tele'
3. Yvonne Sherring-Howard 'Through Death to Life'
4. Marie Watt, 'She Who Is - Standing Firm on Woman Earth'
5. Wendy White ' The Infinity Within Us All: The Healing from Sexual Assault'
6. Tam Dinh, 'Psychodrama Moments in Drug and Alcohol Counselling'
7. Sue Daniel, 'Sociometry, Sociodrama and Psychodrama with Third Generation Holocaust Survivors (3GH)'
8. Sue Daniel, 'Psychodrama as a Living Process' (1997 - new to PIM Library)

The Published Writing of Sue Daniel

In Journals:

• Gertrude Stein and a companion: Echoes of Moreno, Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama & Sociometry, Vol. 40, No. 4 Winter 1988
  
• Day by Day – Role Theory, Sociometry and Psychodrama with Adolescents and Young Women, Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama & Sociometry, vol. 58, No. 4 Winter 2006
  
• Through the Mirror: Role Theory Expanded, The British Journal of Psychodrama and Sociodrama, Vol. 19, No. 2 Autumn/Winter 2004
  
• Attraverso lo Specchio: Sviluppi della teoria dei ruoli, Psicodramma Classico, Anno IV, Vol. 4 Giugno 2002
• Psychodrama as a Living Process, Australian and New Zealand Psychodrama Association, Inc. Journal, No. 6, December 1997
  
• Sociometry, Sociodrama and Psychodrama with Third Generation Holocaust Survivors (3GH), ‘Forum’ Journal of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy, N. 1, July 2006
  

In Books:

• Psychodrama, Role Theory and the Cultural Atom: New Developments in Role Theory in 'Psychodrama: Advances in Theory and Practice' - To be published July 2007 by Routledge Publishers, London. Edited by Clark Baim, Jorge Burmeister and Manuela Maciel.

January Intensive Psychodrama Groups at PIM

Facilitators Simon Parker Psychodramatist & Psychologist
Julie Lacy Psychodramatist & Psychotherapist

Get your year off to a great start by participating in this group. Integrate those New year resolutions into your life. Commences Monday night 22 Jan 2007.
6 Monday & Wednesday Evenings

7-10pm Jan 22 24 29 31 Feb 5 7
$250-

telephone Simon 0417351239 Info www.psychodrama.net.au

Happy Christmas to all Members of the Moreno Psychodrama Society

With the fires still raging in Victoria, Australia, Bob Cummings and Linda Harrington are part of the crew working to contain them. We wish them a safe and Happy Christmas. Here is a picture of Bob.

This year our highpoint was the International Morenian Psychodrama Conference. In 2007 we are bringing the Theatre of Spontaneity into existence making it available every last Friday evening of the month beginning in February. See it on our website:

www.psychodrama-institute-melbourne.com


We wish everyone a Happy New Year!



Helen, Lethe, Katrina, Gillian and Sue

PIM Brochure and Flyers Mailout

Monday 11 December 2006

The Faculty of PIM and the Central Coordinating Committee (CCC) of the Moreno Psychodrama Society (MPS) met together this morning at 104 Simpson Street to send out the 2007 PIM brochure, with a Notice of the Theatre of Spontaneity, (which will be held on the last Friday of every month beginning, Friday, 23 February at PIM - An Open Event with Friends, Member of MPS and PIM trainees all welcome), plus Simon's and Julie's Calendar of Personal Development and Joanie's 'Text Busters'...All are in the mail today!!

It was fun. Our meeting was scheduled from 10.30 a.m to 12.30 p.m. It began at 10.30 a.m precisely. At 10.35 a.m we took a break with coffee, tea and croissants and donuts. Someone locked her keys in her car and missed meeting with someone else so it was wonderful that she (and the other, arriving separately) made it in time for this break.

It was Marie Watt's first meeting since she has recently joined the MPS CCC. It wasn't Simon Parker's first meeting, since he met with the Faculty several weeks ago but he is new on the Faculty, starting in 2007. Our other new members of CCC are Patricia Green and Nikki Alderman. This makes 8 members on the CCC: Helen Fryer, Sue Daniel, Gillian Blackwell, Marie Watt, Patricia Green and Nikki Alderman (Australia) and Katrina Gaskin and Lethe Gaskin (New Zealand). Nikki arrived in a flurry and generously massaged a few shoulders before settling down to fold flyers and stuff envelopes with the rest of us. We finished on the dot of 12.30 p.m - must have been the good ol' mutual tele operating between us.

The next meeting of the CCC is in February, 16th at Helen's house at 7 p.m. We will be preparing for the Spring Gathering which will happen on Sunday, 3 March at PIM from 2 - 5 p.m and the first Theatre of Spontaneity on Friday, February 23, at PIM from 7.30 - 10.30 p.m.

I know it is very early in the piece to make Gathering announcements for 2007, but do put this date (Autumn Meeting, SUNDAY, 4 MARCH 2007 from 2 - 5 p.m) in your diary. Our three other dates for 2007 are: Sundays, 3 June (Winter Meeting), 26 August (slightly early Spring Meeting); with the final (Summer) one being a Christmas Party on 2 December 2007. Our known focus next year is on the hosting of the monthly Theatre of Spontaneity events, how and whether to affiliate with PACFA and publication of writings of members, trainees and practitioners.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Sue Daniel

Your Endless Spark

I believe that, deep within you,

There lives an endless spark,

The centre of your being.

And this spark burns brightly,

However hidden it may seem

Or beyond reach it may feel

It is there!

My hope, my dream is for you to listen quietly,

To listen for the inner voice,

Which longs, yearns, even aches to speak.

Its message is your inner truth.

If you take the time to sit quietly,

To go within,

Open your innermost self and listen,

You will hear this voice.

It will speak to you – a word will form.

In the quietness of your inner self,

Listen to this word, hold it,

Cradle it like a newborn babe

In depths of your very being.

And, this word is the first of many

That will come to you,

That will begin to flow

Into a river of feelings and of knowings.

This river is the poem of your true self,

It is the song of your soul.

Indeed, your soul has many poems,

Many songs, and

Each has a message for you.

It is time to listen

To your inner voice,

To your poem, and

To sing your song,

For your Endless Spark

Is speaking to you.

Phil Smalley

December 2006

Moreno Psychodrama Society “Summer Gathering” and Christmas Party

Sunday 3rd December 2-5pm

Tribute to Joyce Williams, Psychodramatist.

Vale

Joyce was an angel unceremoniously dumped to earth; the jarring nature of this entry into our world enabled a unique human spirit to be born. This spirit was especially sensitive to other souls and had the ability to hear and be moved by their music.

My image of Joyce is one of a lovely bird. This image has been especially strong over these past few days of her passing. In my mind's eye, I see her as a little bird with inquisitive, sharp, bright, brown eyes, warm feathered body, hopping about or looking at the world from her nest. In the past I've also seen her as a wise and trustworthy bird, and also, as a bald headed eagle........cranky as!

I first met Joyce in 1977 at the beginning of my psychodrama journey, she gave me her long 70's pink and white silky scarf with tassels, as I celebrated my birthday during our workshop. I adore her, she has been immensely kind to me and I am glad to have been here with her.

Sue Daniel - 15 November 2006

Psychodrama for Personal Development

2006

Leader: Sue Daniel

Life provides many positive challenges and possibilities, which are ours if we have the courage to take them and the ability to maintain ourselves. This weekend is for those who want to develop greater strength, vitality and more effective relationships with themselves 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 through action and group interaction. We will explore and enter into the deeper aspects of self; keeping in mind that self-development involves living life creatively, spontaneously, with purpose and vision.

November Weekend Workshop

Dates: Saturday & Sunday, 25 & 26 November from 10 a.m – 5.30 p.m both days
Fee: $280.00 (Deposit $50.00 by 10 November) including refreshments.
Venue: Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, 155 Langridge St, Collingwood

Leader: Sue Daniel is a psychodramatist, trainer and practitioner, and the Director of the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne. She is also a psychologist and has a private psychotherapy practice. She has a good sense of humour. Her interests include photography, cinema, yoga and travelling.

Enquiries: (03) 9416 3779