Lunchtime Reading Groups, Friday 28 March and 30 May 2014

ORIGIN OF THE THERAPEUTIC DRAMA
(First Psychodramatic Session)

Moderator: Dora Oliver

Reference: Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy, First Volume J. L Moreno, Pages 21-24. Paperback edition, ASGPP (1994), (First Edition, Beacon House Inc, 1946)

Dora Oliver will present the chapter, the Origin of the Therapeutic Drama, produced at the Kinderbuehne (Children's Theatre), 1911.

The scene is set for the presentation of a drama "The Deeds of Zarathustra," by a little-known playwright.  The actor in the role of Zarathustra enters.  Just as he begins to act and speak his lines, a spectator steps from the auditorium upon the stage.  The actor is taken by surprise, the scenes and dialogues from this point on are extemporaneous.
Spectator: (looking at the actor): Your eyes are not the eyes of Zarathustra.  Where are the wrinkles and old age of Zarathustra?  Where is his hunchback and his grief?
Actor (looks up, stunned and embarrassed).
And so it goes....
Come along and discuss the nature of the Origin of the Therapeutic Drama with Dora and colleagues.

Where are the Lunchtime Reading Groups being held?  

Downstairs Group Room at PIM at 155 Langridge St, Collingwood 

When? Fridays, 28 March and 30 May from 12.45 - 1.45 p.m sharp. 

Cost? $10.00 donation toward resourcing the 'Zerka T. Moreno' library. 

Tea and freshly brewed coffee provided.  Please bring your own lunch.

Email Enquiries only for March Reading Group: pim@netspace.net.au

To Dream Again

A Memoir

Reference: To Dream Again, Memoir Zerka T. Moreno, MHR, Catskill, New York, Paperback edition 2012, Edited by Edward Schreiber

Moderator: Sue Daniel

"If we are indeed inside our psyche, it is possible to contact one another in various ways with tele, our ability to feel with love into the reality of another person as well as to communicate at a distance.  Tele produces two-way relationships based upon mutually perceiving and accepting the other's truth as reality, not as fantasy.  I know there are psychodrama practitioners who do not accept this premise, but I believe it and see it at work.  It differs from transference, in which feelings are projected in fantasy upon another in a one-way relationship, not meeting with mutual recognition.  The tele phenomenon appears again and again when, in the warm up phase of psychodrama, an auxiliary ego or stand-in is selected by a protagonist to take the role of an absentee who is needed for completion of the interaction.  In many groups the people present have not met one another before, yet often the chosen person, after the psychodrama is completed, will state during sharing, "It's amazing you chose me because...." and out will come a similar history.  Although I have worked in this field for more than sixty years, its power still astonishes me."

When? Friday, 30 May from 12.45 - 1.45 p.m sharp (see details above)

RSVP to Sue on 0417 586 791