2nd International Sociodrama Conference, Stockholm-Helsinki

Wed Mar 18 07:08:42 CDT 2009

Imagine an ASGPP Conference in which Marcia or someone, Rosalie and  
Nina for example together conduct a large group experience at the end  
of each day, or a day, at the ASGPP Conference.  The entire  
conference meets an a sociodrama is conducted with the whole  
conference, and this is called Large Group Experience.  One happens  
each day.  One day sociodrama, one day psychodrama, etc. with  
different conductors.  Imagine Ann teaching sociometry for 3 days  
with the same group of 20, meeting together with her each day of the  
conference.  Imagine the same for addressing issues of trauma, a  
group of 20 meeting with Ed Hugg or someone, or a team, each day.   
This is the structure of the IAGP Academy and offfers deep deep  
training and learning.  A new design for the conference could include  
the advances made by our European colleagues.

Ed

On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:40 PM, mkarp11444 at aol.com wrote:

> -I was just at the 2nd International Sociodrama Conference entitled  
> The Shadows of Society. There were about 130 of us. It was  
> organised by Swedish Monica Westberg and Kirstein and team. They  
> did a fine job.  We took a ship from Stockholm to Helsinki,  
> Finland. There was cracked ice on the water all the way,   
> glistening in the sun or in the  moonlight,  as the archipelagos  
> sailed by.  Quite magical to see. Before the conference about 20 of  
> us went to dinner at a wonderful fish restaurant in Stockholm.   
> Peter Kellermann  was there and for a peace meeting of FEPTO. He  
> just lost his mother in Jerusalem . He was in Stockholm to see us  
> and to see his brother to settle the estate of his mother. He  
> didn't feel like a conference so didn't come on the boat with us  
> but returned Israel the next day.  He told me about a TV show he  
> did on Israeli -Tv working with three generations of Holocaust  
> survivors. It was very touching. He used psychodrama to have the  
> genrations express to each other what has been hidden for years.  
> They were all up for it. He didnt like the stress of putting it  
> together, so he says he  won't do it again for that reason. Even  
> though, it got gooe feedback
>
> IMy roomate on the ship and in Helinki hotel,  where we had two  
> more days of sociodrama with the Finns,  who joined us.
>
> My rooimate for the duration  was Monica Zuretti from Argentina.  
> The last time we roomed together was in Catollica,  Italy at a  
> conference called Psychodrama:- one Method, Many Styles.  22 years  
> before.  She couldn't dleep. Kept talking. I suggested, get o from  
> our beds,  reverse roles and she go to sleep in my role, and bed,   
> and I  in hers.  It worked. She went to sleep. But I laid up  
> hours,  worrying !the memory made us laugh. W e had seen each other  
> many times since, but  not been able to spend so much time together  
> as 5 days. It was delightful. She, like me, was trained by the  
> Morenos in Beacon and we always have a lot to catch up on and laugh  
> about.
>
> We worked together as co-directors for a workshop at the Institute  
> of Group Analysis, London with Freud's oil painting in the 80's. It  
> was with a  big group. Good memory of trust and comraderie in our    
> co-direction. Our two couintries had been at war just months before.
>
> At the sociodrama conference, it included people  from South  
> Africa, Manuela Maciel  and others from Portugal,;Jorge Burmeister  
> and Natacha Navarro from Granada,;Mauricio Gasseau and son David  
> from Italy; Judith Teszary and Eva Fahlstrom from Sweden; as were  
> many others,  Jutta Furst and Dr. Suzanne and Johannes from  
> Austria, and from all over the world.
>
>  My contribution was a workshop entitled, "Am I Nothing or Am I  
> God? Choose Universality and Responsibility -But at What Price?The  
> Therapy of Reltionships and Moreno's Moral  Philosophy including  
> time, space, reality, surplus reality, cosmos and the concept of  
> the Godhead. " We worked between sociodrama and psychodrama . From  
> one to the other. Exciting.
>
>
>  Marie Bergman, from Stockholm, a psychodramatist,  sang wonderful,  
> free and powerful songs to us and showed us physically, and  
> emotionally,  how to release our voices.
>
>  During the conference from March 6-8  We heard sociodramtic  
> statements from various people.  Statetments  like:
>
>  "If we don't live like brothers and sisters, we will die like  
> idiots. " D. Tutu
>
>  Moreno's statement, "The true subject of sociodrama is the group."
>
>  " In reconciliation work we don't ask the reason why."
>
>
>  " There has to be emotional appraisal and cognitive recognition of  
> each situation."
>
>  "Imagination is a dream-like
> statement,thinking without structure and allowing yourself to dream."
>
> " Conflict management is an outdated term. Conflict can't be  
> managed. It can be transformed,  therefore Conflict Transformation  
> is a better title for the work.."
>  " The spontaneity level is a good way to get through the  
> resistance or block."
>
>  There were workshops and plenaries including the following:
>
>  Sociatry and the Art of Reconciliation,
>
> How Do We Create Enemies?
>
> Sociopsychodrama: The Social Matrix and Role Theory;  Dynamic  
> Theater - the Drama of Life and Community;
>
> Sociodrama of the Aged and Process of Growing Older;
>
>   Cross Cultural Ewncounter : The Use of Sociodrama in Employment  
> Centers;
>
>  Restorative Dialogues and Sociodrama;
>
> Social Dreaming Marix;
>
>  The Sociodrama of Friendship;
>
> Moreno's Theories and Conflict Resolution: The Third Place and many  
> more interesting workshops.
>
>  It was a great conference. Ero, Jarmo  sand others organised the  
> Helsinki part of the conference. We had Playback Theater from the  
> Finnish Playback Group conducted  by Paiivi Ketonen. Jeanne Berger  
> was the only American participant and presented a sociodrama  
> workshop which  included the Triangle of the Victim, Perpetrator  
> and Onlooker. She then went on to Romania to do a workshop.
>
>  The next morning, after the conference, about 20 of us went to the  
> Grande Hotel in Stockholm.  On it's sunny  Veranda, we had coffee  
> and drinks.  It is an elegant, old- world environment. With  
> reverent tones by a hotel employee from Copenhagen, with only a few  
> at a time,  we were shown the suites of the Nobel Prize winners,  
> who reside at the Hotel each year when the prizes are given out at  
> the. Stokholm City Hall. They used to be given at the Grande  
> Hotel.                     Former winners'
>  photos decorate the walls and halls  of the suites.  Some winners  
> get one million dollars to continue their work in  research or   
> their special projects. The Nobel Peace Prize is given in Oslo.  
> Both are given in December each year. It was a nice way to end a  
> sociodrama experience, to honor those who have given to the  
> community and to society, in one way or another.
>
>  I wish you all could have been there.  Marcia Karp
> ------Original Message------
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> Subject: kellermann's website
>
> Howdy: I just Googled Peter Felix Kellermann's website and  
> discovered that he has some papers posted there on various topics,  
> some of them about his holocaust studies, and some on psychodrama.  
> Good free stuff for your students.!  (He has a most impressive  
> bibliography of his writings!)
>         Warmly,
> Adam Blatner, M.D.
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