Thursday, May 15, 2014

Lunchtime Reading Group at PIM, last Friday of the month - In celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the birth of J. L. Moreno


 Friday 30 May, 2014



J. L. Moreno (18 May 1889 - 14 May 1974)
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."  Zerka Moreno


Where? Downstairs Group Room at PIM at 155 Langridge St, Collingwood 
When? Friday, 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.
When? Friday, 30 May from 12.45 - 1.45 p.m sharp
RSVP to Sue on 0417 586 791

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

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