PIM News: 23 April 2010

David Chong's Birthday:
Come and celebrate with David (right), as he celebrates his birthday. He is performing this Thursday 29, at ESCO art Bar from 7 pm til 10.30pm free entry, 388 Brunswick st Fitzroy!

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In the Library:
Anyone interested in role theory will enjoy Keran Howe's paper, "Reflection and revelation: exploring my inner cultural atom." This paper is the 86th paper by trainees, practitioners and trainers in the PIM library.

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Personal Development Groups

Julia Lau is currently conducting a series of personal development groups under the auspices of PIM at Langridge Street on Monday evenings. This series will conclude 10 May. Please contact us on 94163779 for enrollments and dates of future personal development workshops with Julia.

Simon Parker is also running a series of personal development groups. See his web page in links (opposite this column).

May Seminars
Sue Daniel is conducting two seminars in May: Henry's Eating Junk Food Again! is on Friday 14 May from 9.30 a.m - 12.30 p.m at PIM. This is an ongoing open group, so new people may join throughout the year, designed for parents and carers of pre-teenage and teenage children. For more information see the PIM program. The second group is called The Two-Fold Path of Grief. It is an ongoing open workshop held four times a year for those who have experienced a loss or death of a loved one. The next meeting is Friday , 21 May from 2 - 5 p.m. Call Sue on 0417 536 791 for enquiries, costs and enrollments for both workshops.


Lethe and Katrina Gaskin are conducting their cross cultural seminars on two Friday mornings, 30 April and 7 May.
Lethe is also the leader of the Practicum Group weekend on 1 & 2 May at PIM. This workshop is for trainees working toward doing their practicum.

Autumn at the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne

Celebration

Autumn - warm days and cool nights. Easter is arriving (or Pesach for some of us). We've had time to celebrate this week our first term of training for 2010. New learning, new perspectives and thoughts, a deepening of experience in a safe place with like minded friends, connection with self and others. Congratulations to the Level 3 Group for their work as a team at Windana, in St Kilda. In another month they will have been conducting groups in pairs, on a fortnightly basis at Windana for one year. These are things to celebrate. We hope you will enjoy the break from the formal ongoing training. There are many things to do in our community during the break, below are some of the events going on. Come and meet other trainees, practitioners, trainers and members of our Society.

The Theatre of Spontaneity The Moreno Psychodrama Society and PIM are hosting the second Theatre of Spontaneity at 155 Langridge Street tomorrow night, Sunday 28th of March from 6.30 - 8.30 p.m. Nikki Alderman is the Director. She invites you to bring musical instruments, (we have some if you don't and you don't need any experience - humans are naturally noise making), or bring yours or others poetry to share.
The Theatre has a break in April, and then recommences with Sue Daniel as Director on Sunday 30th of May. The fee is $20.00 and $15.00 for Members of MPS.

Elective Workshops
Lethe Gaskin is conducting the first elective for PIM on two Friday afternoons, 30 April and 7 May with her sister, Katrina. Whilst one can be attended we think you'll have a very rich experience over two sessions. Come and enrich your experience of the Cultural Atom and I am sure you will find out why Moreno valued this concept so highly. Our second elective is Nikki Alderman's weekend June 26 & 27. Marie Watt is now doing a weekend workshop for our third elective on September 4 & 5, in place of the advertised four Monday nights. Jil Toovey is conducting the third elective on Friday afternoons, 24 September and 1 October, while Sue Daniel is the Director of our fourth elective workshop, a training weekend on October 2 & 3.

Ongoing Groups
The Practitioner's Group meets the last Friday of every month. Being with like minded colleagues and friends strengthens us and assists in our role development and practice as practitioners of the psychodrama method.
Yesterday we fare-welled Kath Kelly on another journey, this time up north, with Jo. Dora Oliver has some new work complimenting her private practice, working at Relationships Australia for two days per week.

Sue Daniel runs an ongoing group for parents and carers of Adolescents. This group is open. While starting in February, the members decided to make it an open group for other parents to join throughout the year so if you know of anyone who needs a group this is it. Bringing up children is challenging, a supportive community and new viewpoints can assist parents to develop greater confidence and new roles. Our next meeting is Friday 14 May from 9.30 a.m to 12.30 p.m.

Other Events
The Comedy Festival is on from 24 March - 18 April. Dimitri Pronin, first year trainee at PIM is a guest star in Profane Prima Donnas' D I Y Divas, at Czech House, 497 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne Wednesday Friday and Saturday, 24, 26, 27 & 31 March, 2-3, 7, 9-10, 16-7 April. Dimitri, is the founder and leader of the Melbourne Chekov Drama Studio and he has a wonderful voice. If you like opera and comedy this event is for you. I loved it.

Trainer's Group
Trainers are meeting for a training weekend on 8 & 9 May. This group is now full.

Board Meeting
The Psychodrama Board meets for the first meeting of the year on Monday 3 May.

Training at PIM - Term 2
The training groups recommence for Term 2 in the week beginning 10 May.

Happy Easter, Happy Pesach!

The First PIM Elective Workshop for 2010 - Sociometry and Culture

Applications for the two-part cross cultural training series "Putting Out the Pepeha" are now invited for trainees in all levels in PIM and practitioners. The workshop will also suit anyone interested in sociometry and culture, or who is working in cross cultural fields or family therapy.

The dates are Fridays, 30 April and 7 May from 1 - 4 p.m. Fee: $140.00

Lethe Gaskin and her sister Katrina Gaskin are coming from New Zealand to run this event. They are the leaders of PIA, the Psychodrama Institute of Aotearoa (New Zealand), a sister Institute to PIM.

All enquiries to pim@netspace.net.au

Radio Interviews on Psychodrama

Today, Wednesday 17 March 2010, Yaacov Naor was interviewed by Richard Aedy on Life Matters, on Radio National. Yaacov was a guest at the PIM Opening Session in February. He is working using psychodrama with children of the Holocaust and children of Nazis, on the West Bank with Palestinians and Israelis and he has also worked with Israeli and Palestinian psychodrama training groups.
We have in the library, a copy of this interview and also the previous interview of Jon Rappaport with Zerka Moreno.

Keran Howe Honoured

The PIM Library

There are three new papers in the library, the creation of three advanced trainees:

John De Bono, Exploring Shadow in the Disability Field Through Psychodramatic Perspectives.
Kate Cordukes, Through a Window, a story and personal reflection on mothering.
Gavin O'Loughlin, A Celebration of My Engagement with Animals.

All papers, books and theses are available for borrowing for two weeks.

An Interview with Zerka Moreno

Zerka Moreno will be interviewed live at 7 PM EST (New York time) this Wednesday on Progressive Radio, by Jon Rappaport. In Melbourne, the interview can be heard live at 11 a.m Thursday morning. The interview is available throughout the US and world wide.


THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25th, 11am (Melbourne, Australia)
Go to:
www.ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com and click on the listen button.

"Henry's Eating Junk Food Again": Living Through Adolescence with Sue Daniel

Theatre of Spontaneity - 2010

OCTOBER - Psychodrama Training Workshop

Trainer: Sue Daniel

Saturday & Sunday, 10 & 11 October from 10 a.m - 5.30 p.m both days

This two-day intensive seminar demonstrates a method that enables and promotes vibrant leadership, mutual relationships and encounters of substance. The focus is on deepening and widening our ability to direct and be auxiliaries to one another in this process. The workshop is for trainees, trainers, group leaders and practitioners who are interested in furthering their knowledge and experience of psychodrama and sociometry.

Fee: $320.00 (Deposit $50.00 due by Friday, 26 September)

Email: pim@netspace.net.au