New Library Addition

I just received a rare copy of "Psychodrama and Sociodrama in American Education", edited by Robert Bartlett Haas, Beacon House 1949, which I bought second hand.  This book is a welcome addition to the Zerka Moreno Library and will suit educators, psychologists, counsellors and sociometrists.  It will be available for borrowing the beginning of Term 3.  Strictly two weeks borrowing period.
Sue Daniel

The Source of Tele - Lunchtime Reading Group - Friday 21 June 2013

This is the fourth Lunchtime Reading and Discussion Group for 2013.

Interpersonal Therapy and Co-Unconcious States,
A Progress Report in Psychodramatic Theory
by J. L. Moreno

This excerpt from the above article is the focus for our lunchtime discussion.  The article itself  really gets to grips with the concept of tele and looks at the unconscious as defined by Freud and the collective unconscious of Jung.  This reading group may be of interest to all doing individual therapy and especially those doing couple and family therapy and also those who work with groups of people.  For example teachers, administrators and youth workers.

  

"The 'first' encounter between two individuals who are destined to form an intimate ensemble is the starting point of co-conscious and co-unconscious states.  These states gain in significance from encounter to encounter.  They are experienced and produced jointly and can, therefore, be only jointly reproduced or re-enacted. A co-conscious or a co-unconscious state can not be the property of one individual only.  It is always a common property and can not be reproduced  but by a combined effort.  If a re-enactement of such co-conscious or co-unconscious state is desired or necessary, that re-enactment has to take place with the help of all partners involved in the event.  The logical method of such re-enactment 'a deux' or 'a plusieurs' is psychodrama.  However great the perceptive ability of one partner of the ensemble might be, he can not produce that event alone because both partners have in common their co-conscious and co-unconscious states which are the matrix from which they draw their inspiration and knowledge. Co-conscious and co-unconscious states are phenomena which they have 'co'-produced and which operate between partners who live in 'intimate' ensembles and can not be substituted by other persons; they are irreplaceable.  They are tied together through 'encounters'; it is life itself which binds them together and it is the experiences of living which develops between them an 'interpsyche', a structured stream of co-conscious and co-unconscious states.  The encounters between individuals and the co-conscious or unconscious states developed between them are the source from which tele, transference and empathy spring. Their operation within every group setting has been stated  by many observers and a consensus has been reached.  Transference dissociates; empathy perceives; tele integrates."

Discussant: Sue Daniel

RSVP Monday 17 June 2013 to Sue on 0417 586 791
Copies of the article for discussion are available from the discussant.

Date: Lunchtime, Friday 21 June 2013.  Meeting just after 12.30 for a 12.45 pm precise start.  Tea, hot chocolate and freshly brewed coffee are provided.  Bring your own lunch and $10.00, which goes toward books for the Zerka Moreno library at PIM.  The session finishes at 1.45 p.m sharp.

Theatre of Spontaneity with Helen Fryer

 

Sunday 30^th June 2013

THE PSYCHODRAMA OF ART and THE ART OF PSYCHODRAMA

WAYS OF SEEING

 

DID YOU SEE THE SKY THIS MORNING?

Painting by Tabitha

What is it in the eye of the painter that is able to see the world and transfer that way of seeing in a visual form, so others might have their way of seeing changed?

What is it on the stage of psychodrama that is able to portray a way of seeing the world and encourages our creative eyes?

How do we in our everyday life open our eyes to the extraordinary?

And how do we dare to face each new morning and place the beginning of a scribble on the page of time and wait to see what emerges?

Helen Fryer is a psychodramatist and painting wishful star, who lives and works in Hobart and knows that someday she will create more time and space to develop her artist’s eye.

Gather together for a cup of tea or coffee from 6 p.m for a 6.30 p.m sharp start at the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, 155 Langridge St, Collingwood.

$20.00 ($15.00 MPS Members) SUPPER provided!

RSVP by Friday, 28 June 2013 to Gavin O'Loughin 0403 597 685

www.psychodrama-institute-melbourne.com

Personal Development for Professionals - June/July/August

Winter has set in and with it sometimes comes a turning in, wanting to find warmth and comfort from the cold.  Sometimes we can become stagnant not realising fresh air is as important as warmth.  The following two courses are being run during the term break at PIM.  They each provide an opportunity for exploration of new pathways for healthy working and living. Daniel James' course starts on Saturday, June 15 from 1-4 p.m and Sue Daniel's course begins on Friday afternoon, June 28 from 2 - 5 p.m.  These workshops are designed for professionals from all walks of life and trainees and practitioners of psychodrama who might want to supplement their training with some concentrated personal growth.  

The Therapist's Hunger to Act with the Client and the Role of Reactive Fear - A

Psychodrama in 4 Parts:  Saturdays: 15 & 29 June and 13 & 27 July from 1 – 4 p.m.

Leader: Daniel James

What stops us, as therapists, from truly being 'with' our clients? What within us is triggered which bites down on our spontaneity, eroding our confidence whilst dulling our ability to move with our creativity? How does this impact on the work we do? This series of workshops is for therapists wishing to explore and expand their therapist roles in the fine tradition of the Ancient Greek dictum to, "know thyself". Workshop Numbers: 8 to 10 participants in a closed group format.  Please contact Daniel directly for an interview at isingularity@bigpond.com or on 0427 174 008. 

Fee: $200.00 ($50.00 deposit due by 30 May 2013 or by special arrangement).

About the Leader: Daniel has worked in a forensic environment for 7 years and also works in private practice in Shepparton. He is an accredited Psychodrama-Assistant.

Friday Afternoons with Sue Daniel  - Personal Development for Professionals

 

Life provides many positive challenges and possibilities, which are ours if we have the courage to take them. The aim of personal development is to live life creatively, spontaneously and with vision. These weekly psychodrama workshops are for those who want to explore and enter into the deeper aspects of self with the aim of developing greater strength, vitality and more effective relationships with self and others. There are opportunities to develop new roles and perspectives, acknowledge, celebrate and value old roles and to resolve minor conflicts of living in your personal or professional life. Maximum number in group: 8 

About the Leader: Sue has worked in private practice since 1986, loves yoga and Melbourne skies. She is a trainer, educator and practitioner of psychodrama and individual and group psychotherapist.

Dates: 28 June & 5 July and 26 July & 2 August from 2 – 5 p.m.    
Fee: $250.00 (Trainees and Practitioners and members of MPS $200.00) Deposit $50.00 due by 21 June 2013.

Enquiries to Sue on: 9416 3779 or 0417 586 791

Phil Smalley recognised for Volunteer work

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Lunchtime Reading Group - Friday 24 May 2013

This is the third Lunchtime Reading and Discussion Group for 2013. 

We will be looking at Anne Schutzenberger's article, "Transgenerational analysis and psychodrama: Applying and extending Moreno's concepts of the co-unconscious and the social atom to transgenerational links",  which is chapter 11 in the book "Psychodrama: Advances in Theory and Practice."

Discussant: Gavin O'Loughlin

RSVP and for copies of the chapter: 0403 597 685

Date: Lunchtime, Friday 24 May 2013.  Meeting just after 12.30 for a 12.45 pm start.  Tea and freshly brewed coffee is provided.  Bring your own lunch and $10.00, which goes toward books for the Zerka Moreno library at PIM.  The session finishes at 1.45 p.m sharp.

Address: 155 Langridge Street, Collingwood.

 

The Friday lunchtime reading and discussion group happens from 12.45 to 1.45 p.m sharp in the small group room at PIM.

This group is designed to suit those with an hour to spare at lunchtime.  Budding writers, trainees and Practitioners are welcome! We will discuss psychodrama works; DVD’s and literature and other related material.  A moderator who will send the material, or give it out at the previous meeting for reading or viewing, will lead the discussion.  

Dates for 2013: 22 Mar, 19 Apr, 24 May, 21 Jun, 19 Jul, 23 Aug, 20 Sep, 18 Oct.

Fee: $10.00 per session includes freshly brewed coffee and selection of teas. BYO lunch.

Enquiries to PIM: 0410 536 791.

Sunday May 26, Theatre of Spontaneity - Being Spontaneous in Today's World with Neil Hucker

 

How to be spontaneous.

Every morning we wake up to a new day. What will happen, what will the day bring? What surprises wait in store for us? What will the weather be, particularly in Melbourne.

Will today go according to our plans?

And then, we step out into the day.

The “Theatre of Spontaneity”, gives us a place to experience the various ways we step into the immediate moment and encounter the known and the unknown.

In this evening of the, Theatre of  Spontaneity I will share with you an enjoyable cook’s tour of the many ways Moreno viewed spontaneity and how these perspectives can enhance our warm up to being spontaneous. How to respond adequately to the challenge of fully experiencing life.

I expect this to be relevant wherever you are involved in personal and interpersonal development. 

Neil Hucker works as a Consultant psychiatrist and is a Psychodramatist. He has used the psychodrama method in his practice for many years but he is of the view that the underlying principals of spontaneity and creativity highlighted by Moreno need to be promoted in everyday life. 

Details for this event:

Gather together for a cup of tea or coffee from 6 p.m for a 6.30 p.m sharp start at the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, 155 Langridge St, Collingwood.

$20.00 ($15.00 MPS Members) SUPPER provided! 

RSVP by Friday, 24 May 2013 to Gavin O'Loughin 0403 597 685

www.psychodrama-institute-melbourne.com

Personal Development for Professionals with Sue Daniel

 LIVING IN THE MOMENT

Life provides many positive challenges and possibilities, which are ours if we have the courage to take them. The aim of self- development is to live life creatively, spontaneously and with vision. These weekly psychodrama workshops are for those who want to explore and enter into the deeper aspects of self with the aim of developing greater strength, vitality and more effective relationships with self and others. There are opportunities to develop new roles and perspectives, acknowledge, celebrate and value old roles and to resolve minor conflicts of living in your personal or professional life. Maximum number in group: 8

THE LEADER:

Sue is a trainer, educator and practitioner of psychodrama, a psychologist, psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. Sue conducts workshops and training seminars worldwide. She is the director of the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, Chairperson of the Australian and Aotearoa Board of Psychodrama and a member of the Board of Directors of the IAGP.

DATES: 4 Friday Afternoons, 2 – 5 pm
28 June & 5 July and 26 July and 2 August
FEE: $250.00 (Dep.$50.00) Applications due by Monday, 3 June 2013.

VENUE:
Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne 155 Langridge St, Collingwood 

Medicare rebates may apply. 
Concessions for trainees and MPS members.
All enquiries: (03) 9416 3779

The Theatre of Spontaneity - Sunday 28 April 2013 with Di Kearney

 Salutations Psychodrama Friends!

The Theatre of Spontaneity is Coming Around Again

Cherry season is over, and it was a bumper season, the peaches and apricots are harder to find, and we’ve planted our leeks and kale. Freesias and daffodils left in last year are poking their little green fingers up. They’re a reminder that Spring will follow Winter. But not yet! Winter’s a-coming ……

Come along to the Theatre of Spontaneity and feed your soul, paying tribute where it’s due, join in a community gathering, as since ancient times. Feel free to bring “a little something”, found object, poem, whatever, that connects you with yourself and or expresses something for you, and which you feel ok to share in our Theatre.

Here we are in the first month of Autumn, and approaching the end of April. It’s a time when the sun moves lower across our skies, the evening comes down earlier and rapidly with a poignancy that can pierce the heart, and even the crickets who have been so persistent are subdued.

We live our lives in the perpetual cycle of growth and contraction, Death and Rebirth, tied to the movement of our Earth and its Sun.  The Celts held a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year, when cattle were brought back down from the summer pastures and when livestock were slaughtered for the winter.

In our country below the equator, by 30 April–1 May we will be half way between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice.  It can be a time when old losses rise to consciousness, a sort of “balancing of the books” before the inevitable hibernation which will follow: an in-between-not-altogether-comfortable sort of time.  Perhaps it’s because we ourselves are made of the dust of the cosmos and unto that dust we will return, we can feel at this time very mortal and close to our departed loved ones. We have an opportunity to remember those who have gone before us, to pay respects to our ancestors, family members, elders, friends, (including “pets”), who have passed on.

It can also be a time for “bedding down” as farmers prepare the land to lie fallow before the seeding of Spring, when the world will awaken and spawn new life. But that’s another story ……..


Di Kearney is a Psychodramatist and Social Worker who works with children and adolescents.

Details for this event:

Gather together for a cup of tea or coffee from 6 p.m for a 6.30 p.m sharp start at the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, 155 Langridge St, Collingwood.

$20.00 ($15.00 MPS Members) SUPPER provided! 

RSVP by Friday, 15 February 2013 to Gavin O'Loughin 0403 597 685

www.psychodrama-institute-melbourne.com

A Special Evening with Jonathan Moreno, Friday 5 April 2013

The God Player

We are delighted to announce that Jonathan Moreno is in Melbourne and looking forward to meeting us at PIM this coming Friday.  He is giving a talk entitled, "The God Player", which is taken from a chapter in his new biography of J. L. Moreno concentrating on JL's early years.  J. L. Moreno is the creator of psychodrama, group psychotherapy and role playing.  He is the founder of the psychodrama method.  

Jonathan is a David and Lyn Silfen University Professor, Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and of History and Sociology of Science and a Professor of Philosophy (by courtesy) at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.  He is also the son of JL Moreno and Zerka T. Moreno.   

Fee: $20.00 ($15.0 for MPS members and PIM trainees)

Date: Friday, 5 April 2013

Time: Gather at 7 p.m for commencement at 7.30 p.m sharp.

Supper will be served.

RSVP

PIM office: 9416 3779 or the Administrator: 0410 536 791