Friday, December 14, 2007

SOCIODRAMA in the Theatre of Spontaneity '08

The Moreno Psychodrama Society presents the first Theatre of Spontaneity for 2008. Using sociodrama, psychodrama and a host of creative applications of the method, these monthly events provide an opportunity for people to meet and connect with other likeminded people interested in exploring world, environment, community or cultural events, relationships and values. Sue Daniel and Peter Kellermann are co-leading a Sociodrama session in January. We invite you to come along and see what can be explored using this creative method.

Sue Daniel is the Director of the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne. She is a psychodramatist, trainer, educator and practitioner, psychologist and psychotherapist who lives and works in Melbourne and travels in many countries teaching and practicing the psychodrama method. She is the author of Psychodrama, Role Theory and the Cultural Atom, a chapter in “Psychodrama: Advances in Theory and Practice (2007) as well as of numerous articles in the field of psychodrama, sociometry, sociodrama, role theory and related issues.

Peter Felix Kellermann was born in Stockholm, Sweden, but lives in Jerusalem, Israel with his family since 1980. He is a clinical psychologist and an international trainer of psychodrama and sociodrama. He was the chief clinical psychologist of AMCHA – a treatment center for Holocaust survivors and their families in Israel between 1996-2000 and its executive director between 2001-2004. He is the author of Let’s Face It: Mirroring in Psychodrama, a chapter in “Psychodrama: Advances in Theory and Practice (2007), “Focus on Psychodrama” (1992) and a co-editor of “Psychodrama with Trauma Survivors” (2000).

Date: Friday, 25th of January 2008 from 7.30 - 10.30 p.m
RSVP: (03) 9416 3779 after 16/1/08
Fee: $20.00/$15.00 MPS Members (payable at the door)
Venue: Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, 155 Langridge St, Collingwood

The Class of 2001 Celebrates





Sunday, December 09, 2007

The Writers' Pool

It started off with a trickle in 2001, when PIM began, but now the PIM library with its 70 plus articles and theses and projects has developed into a substantial resource. PIM trainees, practitioners and trainers and MPS members may and do, dip into this well, finding what they need; knowledge, creative ideas and the stories of their colleagues - stories filled with rich imagery - truly psychodramatic writing, illustrating the many and varied applications of psychodrama, sociometry, sociodrama and role theory in their life and work. These creative expressions are touching, thought provoking, they show how psychodrama can be applied, in action or through use of the role theory framework - in many fields and cultures, in groups, in the one to one milieu. They show above all, the significance of relationship - with self, with other and with the world - being and doing - connection not isolation. In addition there are many other articles and books in the library written by psychodramatists in other cultures. These may be dipped into as well. We aren't working and living alone, we have friendly colleagues who are also writing and expressing their ideas, thousands of them. Such is the network of psychodramatists in the world, such is the proliferation of psychodrama since Jacob Levy Moreno brought it into the world, first in Vienna, expanding it in America with Zerka and many others, and then taking it further afield. Thank you writers all, we are all enriched.

The latest writings in the library include:

Bronwyn McNaughton - newly a psychodramatist, 29 November 2007; 3 articles -

'I Just Want To Be Like You: The use of psychodrama with a person with an Intellectual Disability', 'Working Psychodramatically with Young Women at Risk – Conference Presentation Paper and DVD', and, ' The Holy Spirit is my Double'.

Danielle Forer - 'Group Work with Refugees Utilising Psychodrama: Rebuilding hope, facilitating recovery'.

Tam Dinh - 'Steps Toward an Encounter: Learning to Get On Board with the Other'.

Kath Kelly - 'Psychodrama at the Grove Wholistic Spirituality Centre for Women: The Living Crucible of Acceptance'.

Dianne Kearney - 'The Lady of the Dance'.

Sue Daniel - Psychodrama, role theory and the cultural atom: new developments in role theory in "Psychodrama - Advances in Theory and Practice", Eds. Clark Baim, Jorge Burmeister & Manuela Maciel, Routledge, UK 2007

Take a Chance

Reaching out is often hard, when
The road is long and lonely, but
Take a chance to see.

Yet, if I reach out
And risk the touch,
Feelings can grow, just
Take a chance to feel.

In unexpected places, and
At unexpected times, I
Take a chance to flow.

Life is too short
To waste on fanning fears, so
Take a chance to love and
Take a chance to know.

Phil Smalley
PIM Training and Review Night
30th November 2007