Psychodrama - Sociatry - Transformational Codes

[Peter Howie]

Dear Ed,

This is the best write up I have read on what you are doing.  
Well......are you going to come over here or must I travel over there?  
I have been srtuct recently by just how much of our methods and  
practices are actually in the oral tradition. I remember Jonothan Fox  
looking at playback as oral tradition and I think we are also. Only  
the barest bones get captured by the writing. And much of the writing  
leaves out the oral parts and goes for the academic parts. Anyway,  
there is still time to add to the body of writing.

Your writing also strikes me as you trying to find meaningful and  
different ways to express what it is you are doing. And I think you  
have captured it more effectively each time you do it. I am trying in  
a different way to write about what I do and you may be interested to  
have a peek at www.moreno.com.au and see if you notice the similar  
attempt to capture aspects of the Morenos' work with words that make  
sesne to others.

Cheers for now

Peter



Peter Howie B.Sc, TEP
Managing Director
The Moreno Collegium for Human Centred Learning, Research and  
Development
0411 873 851
www.moreno.com.au




On 23/12/2009, at 10:57 AM, Edward Schreiber wrote:

> Rowe Conference Center, Rowe, Massachusetts
>
> Psychodrama for Transformation:
> Realizing Our True Nature
>
> Ed Schreiber
> Jan 22-24, 2010
> Register Online
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> sychodrama is the evolutionary personal, group, organizational, and  
> societal healing method created by Dr. J. L. Moreno, a psychiatrist  
> and contemporary of Freud, Jung, and Adler, and his wife and  
> collaborator, Zerka Toeman Moreno. Zerka is now 91 and continues to  
> teach and train students from around the world 34 years after J.L.’s  
> death. Ed is her former student and now her collaborator and friend.
>
> Psychodrama helps people discover and strengthen a state of mind- 
> body-spirit called “spontaneity-creativity,” which is transformative  
> and healing for both individuals and groups. An aspect of Ed’s work  
> is to translate the psychodramatic method into practices and  
> formulas and to extend these as tools for what J. L. Moreno called  
> “sociatry,” the healing of society.
> Psychodrama taps into the creative vitality, that vastness of life  
> within us and within groups. Psychodrama for Transformation is a way  
> to access this healing source, to experience the very heart and  
> essence of this extraordinary method. We awaken the autonomous  
> healing center within us, and that same power emerges within groups.
>
> Psychodrama for Transformation offers tools to enable us to live  
> life more fully, offering a way to see and to be with greater  
> clarity, authenticity, and presence. We are living in a world  
> calling us to respond to the tremendous changes around and within  
> us. Individuals are like cells and groups are like organs within the  
> body of humanity. We are part of an ecological system; understanding  
> the nature of this system is the beginning of changing it.
>
> Psychodrama and its parts – sociodrama, sociometry, and sociatry –  
> are tools to understand, experience, and integrate this creative  
> force manifesting within us, in groups, and in our world. We can  
> heal the past, address the present, and prepare for the future. This  
> workshop is appropriate for both personal growth and professional  
> development. CEUs are offered.
>
> “Ed is particularly gifted in the method that my husband J.L. Moreno  
> and I developed.”
> — Zerka Moreno
>
>
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>
> Ed Schreiber is co-editor of The Quintessential Zerka, a collection  
> of Zerka Moreno’s writings, and editor of To Dream Again: Zerka  
> Moreno Memoirs. He is the director of the Zerka T. Moreno Foundation  
> for Training, Research, and Education, a non-profit foundation in  
> Western Massachusetts. Ed is an adjunct faculty member at Lesley  
> University, an activist, and a master addiction counselor who holds  
> a certificate in the treatment of trauma. He has spent many years  
> working to help people expand and live more fully, even in the face  
> of cancer, HIV, and other challenges facing humanity.
>
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