workshops, education & training
Many of the challenges around the holidays involve family dynamics and unfinished childhood business. Interactions with parents and siblings can stir up long-buried feelings we thought we put behind us. One wrong word said can feel like we have taken a step back in time to when we were five years old. With that in…
This simple question lends itself to a rather more complicated answer, which begins with a bit of history about Jacob L. Moreno, M.D., the founder of Psychodrama. Both of Moreno’s parents were Sephardi Jews, but by all accounts Moreno was not particularly religious. He was however deeply spiritual. Moreno believed that we are all connected…
In J.L. Moreno’s psychodrama, role reversal is a crucial technique used to promote empathy and understanding within the therapeutic process. It involves participants in a psychodrama session switching roles with each other, allowing them to experience the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of the other person involved in a particular psychodrama scene. Role reversal serves several…
Bibliodrama is a form of story exploration/interpretation that loosely uses the tools, methods, and techniques (often called “interventions) of psychodrama. These methods are applied to the exploration of literature and Biblical stories in small groups of participants. When used to examine the Bible, Bibliodrama is non-fundamentalist and does not seek as its aim to proselytize or preach…
“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.” – Gautama Buddha Criminal defense lawyers sometimes represent society’s outcasts. By accusation our clients are said to have broken society’s laws;…