Psychodrama - Sociatry - Transformational Codes

[Edward Schreiber]

Yes, most great traditions are in/of the oral tradition.
That's been my experience here, along with Zen.
I'll come there.

Ed



On Dec 22, 2009, at 8:50 PM, Peter Howie wrote:

> 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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