July Theatre of Spontaneity - Sociometry at Work

Sociometry at Work

Organizations can be complex places with their own lexicon and focus on deliverables, end points and evidence based outcomes. Attention to sociometry and organizational dynamics optimize desired results through attention to process. Strategic Planning has a hard edge that requires a complementary approach to humanize, engage and release peoples’ creativity. This Theatre of Spontaneity will explore ways of engagement that focuses on relationships and organizational development through play, story and spirit.

John De Bono is a psychodramatist and organizational consultant who works as a facilitator, trainer and coach (photo above, Marie Watt with John de Bono)

Date: Sunday, 31 July 2011 from 6.30 - 8.30 p.m.

Where? Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, 155 Langridge St, Collingwood

Fee: $20.00 ($15.00 for MPS members)

A Greeting from Zerka Moreno on our 10th Anniversary

Hello, Psychodrama Friends,

When I met Moreno in 1941, how could I have known that eventually he would have a Society in his name in Australia? Of course, that is what we worked hard for, to have those labors carried on around the globe.

And that is exactly what you are doing under the energetic, devoted guidance of Sue Daniel.

So this is a hearty Thank You from the other side, for your very own contribution to our field. Everyone of you is very much needed.

Keep up the good work.

I will be with you in spirit.

Love, Zerka

Special thanks to the Moreno Psychodrama Society Committee

Dear Committee Members

Many thanks for the great effort and beautiful evening that was created largely by you as well as our guests last Friday, 22 July 2011.

Special thanks to John, Jillian, Stephanie, Daniel, Patricia, Ling, Hien, Danielle and Cath, our "chanteuse" on the evening.

Also thanks to Cath's husband Pete, who accompanied her on keyboards (see photos below), Ted, Julia, and the various family members of our committee members for their contributions on the night.

Thank you!
Sue

PIM's 10th Birthday, 22 July 2011

New literature in the PIM library

The library is expanding weekly. Anyone interested in research articles on psychodrama ought to be interested this week. For example:

• Corrective Interpersonal Experience in Psychodrama Group Therapy: A Comprehensive Process Analysis of Significant Therapeutic Events by Charmaine McVie et al. (2011)

• When Puppets Speak: Dialectical Psychodrama within Developmental Child Psychotherapy by Leni Verhofdstadt-Deneve et al. (2009) (Leni presented at the 2006 Moreno Society's "Giving Life" Conference in Melbourne)

• Drama as a Means of Preventing Post-Traumatic Stress following Trauma within a Community by Robert J. Landy. (2010)

June Theatre of Spontaneity with Marie E. Watt

Landscapes of the Heart

From what country/place is your being forged?

"Return this winter Sunday, 26 June from 6.30-8.30 p.m and appreciate the features which still warm and strengthen you.."

Where: At PIM, 155 Langridge St, Collingwood
Fee: $20.00 ($15.00 MPS members)

World Dreaming - An Invitation to an Encounter

The 6th World Congress for Psychotherapy is being held in Sydney from the 24th-28th of August 2011. The theme is "World Dreaming".
Lorraine Michael, psychodramatist and MPS member is conducting a session at this congress based on her psychodrama work in the psychiatric field.

An Invitation to an Encounter: The function and value of Psychodramatic formulations - a crucial process of inpatient psychotherapy, care and treatment.

Abstract:

In this paper, I demonstrate how Psychodramatic formulations can offer a unique epistemological dimension to the care and treatment of people on an Acute Inpatient Psychiatric setting. Through the presentation of pieces of individual Psychodrama work, I demonstrate the use of 'role reversal' and 'doubling', in assisting individuals to make meaning of both their explicit and implicit experiences. As an auxilliary, I illustrate how I extend this understanding in some meaningful way to the wider treating team, so as to deepen our shared understanding of key conflicts/tensions underpinning people's clinical presentation. In this, I argue how a Systemic conceptualization often reveals deeply buried/hidden wounds/trauma that have continued to plague the lives of these individuals, disguised as 'symptomatology'. In the world of acute psychiatry, where psychotherapy is, at the best of times deemed futile or even a 'luxury' for the 'elite' few, I establish the centrality of Psychodrama as a necessary ingredient in bridging the trauma-healing divide, as well as, towards understanding and empowering the Other in their own healing and growth. Most importantly, this paper reaffirms that our warm-up must be to the 'Person' in front of us, and that, it is when we relate mutually as people, as beings in an I-Thou encounter, that it is this which is deeply healing. Psychodrama, just like the "world's longest surviving culture", is indeed well and alive and thriving, in the world today. "World Dreaming" indeed!

PIM's 10th Birthday !!

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Moreno Psychodrama Society - May Subscriptions

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. Time surely does fly with Term 2 training at PIM already begun, party planning underway - yes, PIM is celebrating 10 years of co-creating its training institute. The celebration date is Friday 22 July, exactly 10 years to the day when we began our institute at the venue of the Uniting Church in Nicholson Street, Abbotsford. Within two years we had our own building at Langridge Street which has provided a very nice home for MPS, PIM, the Theatre of Spontaneity and for our community.

As all of you are aware, MPS membership runs out each financial year. Within the coming week we will be in the process of sending membership fee notices for the next financial year to all of our current members. Do keep an eye out for your renewal in the mail. It is coming with your party invitation. Please be sure to send the notice back to us with your payment details so that we can keep your membership up to date.













We hope you all have a fantastic and invigorating month and enjoy those wonderful Victorian sunrises and sunsets!

MPS Committee

The Moreno Psychodrama Society Month of May Poetry Slam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Presenter: Daniel James

The Japanese art form Haiku forms the warming up for May's Theatre of Spontaneity.
A Haiku Poem is composed thus:

Five Syllables
Seven Syllables
Five Syllables

The short form tells a story minimalistically which encourages the writer to really focus on the most descriptive words and phrases.

My house is burned
But the cherry tree in my garden
Scatters its blossoms
As if nothing has happened.

(Anonymous)

(Italics mine: Sue Daniel -
After the Japanese Tsunami, 11 March 2011, I decided to sit in the sun and read some haiku from the book, "The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches". This one (above) is a favourite of the great Japanese Haiki Poet, Matsuo Basho, written by a friend of his after his house burned down. It is of course translated into English and may not completely follow Haiku form).

Daniel James continues.....

However creative juices can flow to create a Haiku chain whereby the last line of the first poem constitutes the first line of the next Haiku and so on.
Bring your creative juices
5
7
5
and see what creativity in the written word can bring to creativity in action.

See you at the Theatre of Spontaneity, Sunday 29 May from 6.30-8.30 p.m
PIM, 155 Langridge Street
Fee: $20.00 ($15.00 MPS members) A light supper is served.

RSVP John De Bono 0429 427 873