Psychodrama - Sociatry - Transformational Codes

[Edward Schreiber]

Behind the method we know as Psychodrama (and sociometry and  
sociodrama and group psychotherapy) is an esoteric/existential school,
an oral tradition, yes, this is correct and it is true.  It is passed  
on orally and my work is to transfer it, orally, and in codes as the  
systems
of our world (like the ice caps) melt down faster than we can absorb  
that speed at which this is happening.  I'm reading Andrew Harvey's new
book about Spiritual Activism and Hope, seeing in it a reflection of  
my life and and the work of so many of us.
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
>> P
>> 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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