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Here's a video from Bergen County, N.J., that spotlights the teen acting group Reflections, directed by my friend, colleague and licensed clinical social worker Staci Block. Staci is a regular at our national psychodrama conference, scheduled for next year in April.
The group reflections focuses on topics of interest to teens in an interactive and engaging way; among the topics are bullying. Staci says:
"I hope that the audience members can get some ideas about what is happening in their lives."
Just two more weeks before the U.S. Constellations conference in San Francisco on Oct. 28-30. I am told that the big picture looks fantastic, and I am pleased to hear that as an advocate of the constellation approach and as a presenter.
If you have not visited the conference web site lately, go to USConstellations.com and breathe in all in. It’s really happening and it’s going to be great on so many levels -- there are many masters in the constellation field who will be presenting including Hunter Beaumont, Francesca Mason Boring, Heinz Stark, Dan Booth Cohen and Jane Peterson as well as others that value and teach about our connection to the ancestors like Malidoma Some and other pioneers like Gorden Wheeler, president of Esalen.
There is still time to register for the conference here.
This one runs about 17 minutes with interviews and scenes from Ursula Hauser's video of the group of psychodramatists in training with the School of Psychodrama Without Borders who just graduated from her program in Gaza, Palestine. It's in English with Spanish subtitles. Dr. Hauser, who is from Switzerland, also trains psychodramatists in Cuba and Costa Rica.
She writes more about the use of psychodrama to address war, occupation and and the post-war experience in Palestine with her article From Violence To Hope.
My friend and colleague Daniel Wiener demonstrates how to energize and enhance your couples work by incorporating specialized drama therapy and psychodramatic techniques that he has devised called Rehearsals for Growth™.
During the course of three sessions based on an actual case with a married couple, Dan demonstrates a series of safe, original and effective exercises which are interspersed with observations of the couple’s dynamics and rationale for his therapeutic choices.
This video offered by Psychotherapy.net is a rare opportunity to be a “fly on the wall” during multiple sessions with the same couple, enabling you to see how, over time, these potent improvisational techniques can help people move through significant conflicts into a renewed loving and playful connection.
Dan is a popular presenter at the annual psychodrama conference sponsored by the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. His informative video gives great ideas to shift shift clients out of their stuck places and facilitate new possibilities for relating.
