workshops, education & training
It’s official – Patrick Barone, co-founder of the Michigan Psychodrama Center, is now a Board-Certified Practitioner of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. Mr. Barone learned that he had successfully completed his examinations via an email dated January 15, 2018. The email bore the subject “Congratulations You Are Now Certified,” and began; Congratulations! On behalf of…
Have you ever had to face chaos? If you’ve been around more than a few years, then of course the answer is yes. No matter how orderly and predicable our lives may have become, we know, deep inside, that there is no escaping chaos. A devastating medical diagnosis, divorce, accidents, job loss, natural disaster. One…
On August 7, 2017 Barone received an email from the Psychodrama American Board of Examiners that began as follows: Congratulations! Your application has been approved for admission to the 2017 examination process. The examination process referred to here is the written comprehensive board exam that is required for certification as a practitioner of psychodrama. Once this…
Introduction: In the business world, we have work groups and work teams. A work team has members who work interdependently on a specific, common goal to produce an end result for their business. A work group is two or more individuals who are interdependent in their accomplishments and may or may not work in the…
The Michigan Psychodrama Center will be hosting a full-day “psychodrama for lawyers” workshop in Royal Oak on Saturday, October 22, 2016. This introductory workshop is perfect for lawyers who want to learn how to begin using psychodrama in their law practices. Lawyers will find that this dynamic and informative one-day workshop will help them become…
The founders of the Michigan Psychodrama Center are pleased to announce that they will be presenting a 90-minute workshop at the 75th Annual ASGPP 2017 Conference: “Navigating Waves of Change: Discovering and Celebrating Our Hidden Treasures.” The title of their 90-minute workshop is “Integrating Mind and Body with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Psychodrama.” The 2017…
Psychodrama has been around a very long time. It was originally devised and developed many decades ago by Jacob Levy Moreno (1889-1997). Born in Austria, Moreno developed his theories around the turn of the 20th century; which was the same time Freud was “inventing” psychotherapy. However, according to John Nolte, it was Gerry Spence who…
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) was created by Dr. Aaron Beck in the 1960s. Since this time it has increasingly been recognized as an extraordinarily effective psychotherapeutic intervention. Since its early development, scientists around the world have researched CBT to determine if it is effective in treating such disparate disorders as depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders,…
J.L. Moreno was a psychiatrist born in 1889 in Romania. He is credited with the development of group therapy, sociodrama and psychodrama. One of his basic contributions is sociometry. Sociometry is the measurement of social choice, meaning the decisions, both conscious and unconscious, that are made regarding inter-personal affiliation. These measurement tools can be used…
Bibliodrama is a style and form of literary interpretation which can be explained more than one way. As was previously explained, the bible can be thought of as containing two parts, the “black fire” and the “white fire.” The black fire is comprised of the immutable and transcendent words on the page whereas the white…