Topic: TELE'DRAMA Conference Grand Opening Ceremony
Presenter: Description: The Tele'Drama Team is inviting EVERYONE to join us for the Conference Grand Opening Ceremony.
Even if you are unavailable to attend the entire conference, we would like you to be with us for an hour of magical virtual experience, connecting with people from around the world, amazing virtual arts, creativity, colour, movement and music. This event has FREE ENTRANCE,however, we need you to register
here: https://conference.teledrama.org/2211/registration OR
submit the following form: https://forms.gle/ZPHth9FK7KqK9V468  

Topic: Exploring Dreams Through Psychodrama During the Lockdown
Presenter: Magdalene Jeyarathnam, MSW, PhDC, CP (India )
Description: During the lock down in 2020, I realised that people needed a place to process their dreams. There were no avenues to meet off line, people were feeling isolated and fragmented. I began every Monday morning a 90 minute session on dreams. We had people share dreams, role reverse with aspects and elements in their dreams. This have participants a chance to share even the most wildest, weirdest dreams and find some release taking on roles and experiencing the aspects of their dreams.
Learning Objectives: 1. Recognise that dreams can be a great way of connecting to one another
2. Apply this awareness into practice on their own

Topic: Mixing Facts and Fiction - Making Science Alive Through Sociodrama
Presenter: Marjut Partanen-Hertell, MS, TEP, CTP-3 (Finland)
Description: We will examine how sociodrama and other experiential methods can be tools to deepen the understanding of the facts and models that are used to describe reality. The process has several stages: Warming up to the theme, presenting the facts and models, bringing the models up to life in a sociodrama or with other experiential methods, possible catharsis of understanding and processing the results and learning. Models that can be worked with could describe ecological change, addictions and so on.
Learning Objectives: 1. After attending this workshop participants will be able to recognise when sociodrama or other experiential methods are helpful in facilitating Deep Learning in the fields of environment, education, therapy etc.
2. After attending this workshop participants will be able to describe how scientific and applied models can be demonstrated using sociodrama and other experiential methods.

Topic: ....if this were my dream... Ullmans Dream Analysis Method and Psychodrama
Presenter: Inara Erdmanis, TEP (Latvia/Sweden)
Description: Ullman considers that dreams are a universal language. The workshop will present and demonstrate the stages in Ullmans dream analysis method and how this could lead to a psychodrama and the bridge. A process-analysis of the work will be done.
Learning Objectives: 1. Explain and demonstrate Ullmans dream method 

Topic: Age-ing and Help
Presenter: Diane Adderley, ST, APTT (United Kingdom)
Description: We will use elements of Playback Theatre and Sociodrama to explore stories of social and cultural attitudes towards the increasing need for external help which we may all experience as we progress through the years. Both the Giver and the Receiver will have thoughts and feelings about this relationship. How do our cultures and various societies enact / support (or not) both the Givers and Receivers? How do we ourselves Give or Receive? What is easy? What is difficult about the relationship, whether it is between individuals, possibly family members, or agencies, charities, governments?
Learning Objectives: 1. Recognize the complexity of the role relationship of Giver-Receiver
2. Recognise the impact of social / cultural attitudes on the internal and external responses to offering or receiving Help

Topic: The Transformative Wisdom of Dreams: Healing Worlds and Cultures Through Jungian Psychodrama
Presenter: Maurizio Gasseau, TEP (Italy)
Description: This didactic and experiential group will show the model of Jungian Psychodrama. Theory, methodology and techniques will be demonstrated and explained. Dreams convey the transformative wisdom of the unconscious, allowing emotionally charged material to become easily accessible to the consciousness, activating intrapsychic and intersubjective change. The group will take place online within a ritualistic framework, creating a safe space to advance personal and social healing. 
The conductor  will give a short theoretical introduction about 
- historical development of jungian psychodrama, 
- personal and collective unconsciousness,
- Dream work in Jungian psychodrama
- Narrative observation in jungian psychodrama. 
The course will present a warm up trough active imagination in small groups, and the Dream Incubation techniques and some dreams will come into play.
Jungian psychodrama is a theory of psychodramatic technique, articulated in a complex 

model of conduction and observation. It derives from Jung’s analytical theory on dreams, 

from his concepts of the personal and collective unconsciousness, of archetypal images 

and individuation as well as S.H. Foulkes’ concepts of the net and the personal and basic 

matrix. 

After the final sharing at the end of each session, an observation will echo the sense of the dreams which have been played, using a narrative style. The narration will enrich the plays with mythopoietic amplifications and will strive to connect individual themes to the themes of the group’s collective unconsciousness.

Topic: Embodying Our Resilience: Self-Compassion through Expressive Writing and Action Methods
Presenter: Nancy S. Scherlong, LCSW (United States)
Description: In this interactive, didactic and highly experiential workshop, participants will have an opportunity to get in touch with their inner stories of resilience and to cultivate self-compassion. Using selected quotes and literature for inspiration, we will experiment with elements of expressive writing and poetry and journal therapy that enhance our positive self-regard and serve as a protective barrier to role fatigue and burnout. No prior writing experience is needed and workshop is focused on writing process, not product.
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to demonstrate and revise one's spoken, written and enacted metaphors
2. Participants will be able to explain three different writing techniques from the journal ladder and their role in containing or expanding one's activation or resilience

Topic: Self Compassion - The Practice of Befriending Yourself
Presenter: Nancy Kirsner, PhD, TEP (United States)
Description: "If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete" (BUDDHA)

Have you ever found yourself being nicer to other people than yourself?
Are you disapproving and judging yourself and constantly putting yourself down?

Learn what self-compassion is and why its so important for you to practice daily. Know the three major elements of self-compassion and how to create them. Discover why it is so hard for us to be compassionate with ourselves. Two experiential practices to directly evoke self-compassion will be demonstrated.



 
Learning Objectives: 1. define self-compassion and describe its three elements
2. Describe the benefits of self-compassion and demonstrate one way to tsp into it

Topic: Transgenerational Memories as a Lever for Change
Presenters: Chantal Nève-Hanquet, TEP (Belgium)
Agathe Crespel, CFIP, ITI (Belgium)
Description: What resources will I draw from the history of my life and from my real and symbolic ancestors? This workshop will start from facts of life of ancestors, in a creative, experiential and psychodramatic way. The sharing phase after experience will allow participants to discover processes of inner changes linked to transgenerational work.
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to internalize creative ways of working with transgenerational field
2. Participants will be able to better understand processes leading to change

Topic: Whales Fractals and Art, Sociopsychodrama. Our Encounter with the Whales
Presenters: Monica Zuretti, MD (Argentina)
Débora de Penna, PhD (Argentina)
Fernan Cetran, PhD (Argentina)
Description: The psychodramatic work that we propose is structured in the relationship of art with fractals and with the energy of whales.
Psychodramatic matrixes can be read from fractal structures through art. We will work choosing by intuition and Tele the “Whales Cards” as warming up.
Our group work will release an spontaneous creative process, and has the purpose of resolving any conflict or blockage. In this way, the fractal pattern of origin is returned and found by the whale's memory.
Learning Objectives: 1. Recognize the fractal blockage using the Whales Cards
2. Apply the whales energy to recover the original pattern

Topic: Exploring Roles and Relations using Sociometric Cycle
Presenter: Urban Norlander, TEP, ICF (Sweden)
Description: The Sociometric cycle was constructed by Ann Hale and is a way of mapping and understanding the changes of our roles and relations.
Sociometry is one of the fundamental concepts of psychodrama. Moreno thought that people’s psychological health and wellbeing is dependent on the network of relationships in one's environment. The work in psychodrama is about restoring, repairing, and developing this network. Everything is connected. We create the roles in our life in relation to others and we don't exist as solitary individuals, we need others to develop our roles and to function in society. Since the set of roles defines the self (the self emerges from the roles), our self is constantly changing due to our relationships and experiences. The more important a role is in our life, the more painful and overwhelming the loss of it is. Since everything is connected, our relationships change when we change a role and the role changes when we lose a relationship. The saying that someone leaves a hole when they disappear is more than just a saying, it is reality.
In this seminar we will use the Sociometric cycle by Ann Hale to investigate the changes of some of our roles. We will do all in action and relate it to our everyday life.
Learning Objectives: 1. Identify the different phases in the sociometric cycle and how it can be understood when exploring a person's role development.

2. Have the basic knowledge of the use of the sociometric cycle as a tool for exploring changes in roles

Topic: Generations of Wisdom: Exploring Transgenerational Resources through ColourDrama
Presenters: Mark Wentworth (United Kingdom)
Cristina Schmidt, MS ( Austria / Romania )
Description: As much as we carry the unfinished stories and wounds of the past generations, we also carry
the gifts and resources. By untangling invisible loyalties which may currently be hindering
career growth or relationship success for example, we gain full access to the successes and
the love stories of the past generations. In so doing we bring an internal balance to our own
lives and those that come after us too. In this experiential workshop we will use the language
of colour and symbols combined with the action methods of psychodrama to uncover and
recover the hidden hopes and dreams of those who came before us.

What will your legacy be? After all, we are all ancestors in training, right?
You and I would not be here reading this text if it weren’t for the resourcefulness and
strengths of those that have gone before us.
Somewhere back in time someone was hoping and praying for someone just like you. You
are their conscious creation; you are the answer to their prayers.
Learning Objectives: 1. Apply 2 transgenerational related psychodrama techniques in your daily therapeutic &
clinical work
2. Identify inherited transgenerational skills and use this an effective way for working
with clients, who do not typically respond to traditional approaches.

Topic: De-stigmatizing Care: Utilizing Action Methods with Marginalized Communities in Clinical Settings
Presenters: Jordan Miller, MPH, LSW (United States)
Monica Munoz, PsyD (United States)
Description: Description: 


Presenters will discuss and provide clinical applications and implications for working with stigmatized populations [children and adults].





 
Learning Objectives: -Provide a brief overview of Moreno’s work as it relates to normalizing mental health care.


-Creatively adapt action methods to meet specific community needs.

Topic: Integrating Transactional Analysis with Psychodrama for Clinical Effectiveness
Presenter: Monica Forst, MEd, CP (Canada)
Description: As a way of understanding our psychological structure, Eric Berne identified Ego States of Parent, Adult and Child. These States were defined as three whole separate systems in our psyche. By understanding this internal structure, clinicians can teach their clients how to better manage and function effectively in their lives.
Participants will learn the difference between each of the three States, and how best to intervene with psychodramatic methods to facilitate individual awareness for healthy Adult function.

Participants will have the opportunity to identify their own ego States as well as practice directing appropriate interventions for each of the three States.
These interventions are applicable to individual and group therapy settings.
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will have the opportunity to identify their own ego statesfy their own ego States as well as practice directing appropriate interventions for each of the three States. These interventions are applicable to individual and group therapy settings.
2. Participants with have the opportunity to practice directing appropriate interventions for each of the three ego states

Topic: Polishing Your Presentation Through Better Speaking Practices
Presenters: Erica Hollander, PhD (United States)
Ichiro (Okkady) Okajima, MA, CTP-2 ( Japan)
Description: Didactic and experiential learning regarding common speaking errors and how to avoid them
Learning Objectives: 1. After attending this workshop participants will be able to identify common errors in public speaking
2. After attending this workshop participations[ants will demonstrate greater proficiency in oral presentations.

Topic: The Lost Self: Traumatic Brain Injury, Trauma, and Identity
Presenters: Colleen Baratka, MA, TEP (United States)
Deborah Karner, LCSW, TEP (United States)
Description: There is a tsunami of role change after a mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI)/Trauma which often results in severe identity confusion and relational challenges in all systems: family; employment; legal; medical among them. This workshop will explore the responses of the mTBI and Traumatized brain to daily events and use Moreno’s role theory to contextualize individual and systems treatment.
 
Learning Objectives: 1. 1. Recognize from a neurological perspective a person’s changed response to daily life events after experiencing an mTBI and trauma.
2. Describe how to contextualize treatment for the challenge of role change and role loss after experiencing an mTBI and trauma using Moreno’s Role Theory.

Topic: UnMasking the Self: An Expressive Arts Exploration
Presenter: Jennie Kristel, MA, REAT (United States)
Description: We all wear masks in our lives depending on what role we are in at the moment. In the last 3 years we have used masks for protection. The drama and power of working with masks arise from the synergy between their visual/physical configuration and the physicality of those who wear them. For these reasons and others, mask making is a powerful expressive arts therapy tool that can be used in virtually any clinical setting to enhance emotional development, strengthen ego state/identity work, and explore hidden parts of the Self. When doing therapeutic work with masks, we benefit from the observations of the spectator, or witness, observing the shifts and reactions of the mask wearer during the process. In this 3-hour class, participants will have the opportunity to make their own masks and explore simple ways to expand the masks' meanings and power through dialogue and dramatic action. Participants will explore how action methods from psychodrama, and the arts can be used to heighten healing in treatment through mask work.
Learning Objectives: 1. Demonstrate mask making, for self-exploration and support identity formation, and strengthen and identify parts of Self
2. Demonstrate the use of 2 psychodramatic method, including Mirroring and the Empty Chair and clarify the role of witness observer

Topic: Process Groups
Presenters: Bojana Glusac, TEP, CTP-3 (Serbia)
Erica Hollander, PhD (United States)
Description: Conference Process groups are open sessions with a facilitator. They are an opportunity for meeting other participants that share your interests and experiences, as well as building a community of practice.  The power of process groups lies in the unique opportunity to receive multiple perspectives, support, encouragement and feedback from other individuals in a safe and confidential environment.

Early Process Groups Moderator: Bojana Glusac
Late Process Groups Moderator: Erica Hollander

Small Groups Facilitators: TBD (to be determined)

Topic: Another Step Closer to Equal Experiences: Merging Virtual and Physical Reality into a Fusional InterReality; Tele’Drama Hybrid Modality; Didactic & Experiential Learning: Daniela Simmons, PhD, TEP; Tele'Drama Team Members & Local Institutes
Presenter: Description:

Topic: Friday Early Plenary Sessions (held sequentially): Session # 1: The Heart is like a Garden: Cultivating Seeds of Self-Compassion (Catherine D. Nugent, LCPC, TEP); Session # 2: When Moreno met Freud... (and Freud did not respond!) (Nikolaos Takis, PhD)
Presenter: Description: The two plenary presentations are held sequentially, one after the other, during the 2-hour time slot.


Session # 1 (60 min):

THE HEART IS LIKE A GARDEN: CULTIVATING SEEDS OF SELF-COMPASSION
Catherine D. Nugent, LCPC, TEP

Overview: A growing body of research (Gilbert, 2013; Neff, 2013; Neff & Germer, 2018; Neff, 2020) points to the power and effectiveness of cultivating self-compassion as an antidote to difficult states such as anger, fear, grief and shame. Developing the intrapersonal connections necessary for cultivating self-compassion requires learning and practice. Join us to explore the yin and yang of self-compassion through the lens of role theory.

Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, participants should be able to:
1. Describe one research finding on the effectiveness of self-compassion in promoting beneficial client outcomes.
2. Explain the “yin” and “yang” of self-compassion.
3. Identify one experiential technique for helping clients anchor in the inner roles of self-compassion.



Session # 2 (60 min):
When Moreno met Freud... (and Freud did not respond!)
Presenter: Nikolaos Takis, PhD (Greece )

Description: In this session, we will explore the relationship between J.L. Moreno and psychoanalysis, envisioned through S. Freud and his student A. Brill. Moreno was always trying to draw Freud's attention in an unconscious attempt to master the feeling of paternal deprivation. Some other encounters between Moreno and psychoanalysts will be also discussed, like an incident with A.A. Brill, and the publication of the monograph The Psychodrama of Sigmund Freud.

Topic: Social Hour
Presenter: Description: Some of you will prefer to rest during this hour; others will choose to join for additional networking and a fun time. Everyone is welcome to attend this hour which will be full of surprises and offered each day of the conference.   Everyone will receive the link for this event.

Samuel Marcus Egber,
Host of the Social Hour
Tele’Drama International, United States / France


Friday, November 11, 2022:
Main Room: Networking and a Fun Time-
Breakout Room 1:  Emotional Support with Dragana Nikolic
- Breakout Room 2:  Playful Connections with Ann Duchateau
- Breakout Room 3: Front Desk with Tina Stanojevic
 
Saturday, November 12, 2022:
Main room: Networking and a Fun Time
- Breakout Room 1:  Emotional Support with Dragana Nikolic
- Breakout Room 2:  Self-Care with Turkish Delight with Pembegul Ilter
- Breakout Room 3: Front Desk with Tina Stanojevic

 
Sunday, November 13, 2022:
Main room: Networking and a Fun Time
- Breakout Room 1:  Emotional Support with Dragana Nikolic
- Breakout Room 2:  Self-Care with Turkish Delight with Pembegul Ilter
- Breakout Room 3:  Japanese "Matsuri" Festival, the Dance and Fireworks with Ichiro (Okkady) Okajima 
- Breakout Room 4:  Sparkling Moments, a Duo Playback Theatre Performance with Ann Duchateau, Hadass and musician Ward
- Breakout Room 5: Front Desk with Tina Stanojevic

 

Topic: Friday Late Plenary Sessions (held sequentially): Plenary # 1: Constructive Narrative Cognitive Behavioral Perspective and Psychodrama (Donald Meichenbaum, PhD); Session # 2: Kindred Spirits: Psychodrama and Drama Therapy (Mimi Savage, PhD, Tanja L. Lee,
Presenter: Description: The two plenary presentations are held sequentially, one after the other, during the 2-hour time slot.


Session # 1 (60 min): Constructive Narrative Cognitive Behavioral Perspective and Psychodrama
Donald Meichenbaum, PhD

Constructive Narrative Cognitive Behavioral Perspective and PsychodramaDESCRIPTION Research indicates that the quality of the  therapeutic alliance is the most critical factor contributing to long -lasting behavior change  in patients. Two other critical factors to keep in mind are the power of  story-telling in influencing the level of resilience that individuals, families and communities evidence and the need for any intervention to beculturally  sensitive. The relationship of these findings to the use of psychodrama will be discussed.   

After attending this workshop participants will be able to: 

1. Apply the Core tasks of psychotherapy that contribute to long lasting behavior change       in patients  to the practice of psychodrama,
(See www.melissainstitute.rg) 

2.  Explain the role of culturally-sensitive story-telling in bolstering resilience     
(See roadmaptoresilience.wordpress.com)




Session # 2 (60 min): Kindred Spirits: Psychodrama and Drama Therapy
Mimi Savage, PhD, Tanja L. Lee, PhD

Projective techniques in Drama Therapy as a means toward role play 

Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to distinguish historical influence of psychodrama on drama therapy and their differences in  approaches and philosophies  
2. Participants will be able to apply some specific online projective methods from a narrative drama therapy approach 
3. Participants will be able to identify the various teachings and methods of drama therapy and their founders  
 

Topic: Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention
Presenter: Syeda S. Jesmin, PhD (United States)
Description: This workshop will focus on data and other information to help the audience better understand and describe the problem of suicide and its context in the community. The presenters will discuss programs and practices that address the risk and protective factors of suicide.
Learning Objectives: 1. After attending this workshop participants will be able to describe risk and protective factors of suicide
2. After attending this workshop participants will be able to recognize warning signs of suicide.

Topic: On the Road to One Another
Presenters: Leticia Nieto, PsyD, TEP (United States)
Candace Tkachuck, MA, MS (United States)
Description: In this workshop we will explore inner blueprints that guide us to Morenian 'encounter'. Through psychodramatic and sociodramatic enactment, we will dive beyond interdependence to our true relational nature. We will search out signs of what is needed in our current era. Post-traumatic growth, evolutionary patterning, integral unfolding, and action methodology will offer us doorways to narratives of awakening and repair.
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to describe Wilber's four quadrant model -as it relates to crafting psychodrama and sociodrama interventions.
2. Participants will be able to recognize adaptive signals in human systems that show readiness for relational maturity.

Topic: Psychodrama Minimalist: Theory and Practice
Presenter: Irany Ferreira, MD (Brasil / Chile)
Description: The workshop will begin integrating the group, and creating an intimacy climate to work with a protagonist. After  the sharing the group will be able to understand and learn what is a psychodrama minimalist and their purpose.
Learning Objectives: 1. Apply
2. Define

Topic: Sociatry: Understanding the Underlying Structure Impacting the Global Sociometry
Presenter: Edward Schreiber, TEP (United States)
Description: Moreno writes this: “Human society has an actual, dynamic, central structure underling and determining all of its peripheral and formal groupings. It exerts a determining influence upon every sphere…”

This is Sociatry. We will take a deep examination of what this underlying structure is and how it is impacting all of humanity and the natural world and biosphere. This central structure is a global sociometric structure that is impacting all of mankind. We will look at how it impacts all of us and what our method can do to help. Moreno’s answers may surprise us!
Learning Objectives: 1. Recognize the central sociometric structure underlying society.
2. Apply sociatry to our own lives and work.

Topic: Working with the Newest Generation of Veterans and their Families
Presenters: Ryan Lloyd, MS, LMFT (United States)
Federico Mendez, LMFT (United States)
Description: This workshop discusses theoretical conceptualization of working with this niche population, updated research on the newest generation of veterans, evolving dynamics of the post modern veteran family system, impacts of post modern combat and military culture on the family system, clinical applicability, systemic intervention, and resources for veterans and their families
Learning Objectives: 1. Describe what the post modern veteran family system looks like
2. Apply the ABC-X Family Crisis model to the post modern veteran family system

Topic: Back to the Garden: Questions for Adam and Eve, with the Creators of Bibliodrama. Experiential & Didactic Workshop (English)
Presenter: Susan & Peter Pitzele, PhD (United States)
Description: This workshop will offer both a brief didactic account of Bibliodrama as it evolved from Psychodrama before launching into an action-exploration of the Garden of Eden story.
Learning Objectives: After attending this workshop participants will be able to:

1. Understand the psychodramatic aspects of Bibliodrama.

       2. Determine whether they wish to learn more about Bibliodrama

Topic: The Metaverse: Transformation, Shifting Realities
Presenters: Sheila Dallas-Katzman, MA (United States)
Uneeda Brewer, MSW, TEP (United States)
Description: This workshop explores what extent the uses of digital technologies enhance/alter interactive experiences. Is it different for the facilitator/director? For the participants? From the historical reality of the universe, to the reality of the metaverse, we make choices. We might be torn about what was considered comfortable or the cutting edge. The possibilities of expanding horizons globally has raised the question of whether we can effectively bring our feelings, our sympathy and empathy, into our work in the metaverse.
Learning Objectives: 1. Examine whether the virtual space provide experience that more effectively enhance practice and advance learning....
2. Recognize the sudden shifts to the metaverse and the impact on the body.

Topic: What to Do When I Don’t Know What to Do? For Face to Face and Online
Presenters: Carlos A Raimundo, MD (Australia)
Melanie Raimundo, Psy (Australia)
Description: We, as therapists, coaches, educators, and spiritual directors, both professionally and
personally, have experienced and will encounter situations where we feel “I don’t know
what to do!”

These situations increase anxiety, tension, misunderstandings, and conflict, ending in
undesirable outcomes.

Carlos and Melanie will facilitate a safe yet challenging space for participants to present real
professional and personal situations where novel approaches, practical tools, and skills can
be applied when “I don’t know what to do.”

The tools and theories will emerge from traditional and novel approaches of psychodrama,
sociometry, neuroscience, spirituality, systems theory, quantum physics, 3D visualisation,
the role of silence, body-somatic awareness, breathing and spirituality.

Topic: Exploring Roles and Relations using Sociometric Cycle
Presenter: Urban Norlander, TEP, ICF (Sweden)
Description: The Sociometric cycle was constructed by Ann Hale and is a way of mapping and understanding the changes of our roles and relations.
Sociometry is one of the fundamental concepts of psychodrama. Moreno thought that people’s psychological health and wellbeing is dependent on the network of relationships in one's environment. The work in psychodrama is about restoring, repairing, and developing this network. Everything is connected. We create the roles in our life in relation to others and we don't exist as solitary individuals, we need others to develop our roles and to function in society. Since the set of roles defines the self (the self emerges from the roles), our self is constantly changing due to our relationships and experiences. The more important a role is in our life, the more painful and overwhelming the loss of it is. Since everything is connected, our relationships change when we change a role and the role changes when we lose a relationship. The saying that someone leaves a hole when they disappear is more than just a saying, it is reality.
In this seminar we will use the Sociometric cycle by Ann Hale to investigate the changes of some of our roles. We will do all in action and relate it to our everyday life.
Learning Objectives: 1. Identify the different phases in the sociometric cycle and how it can be understood when exploring a person's role development.

2. Have the basic knowledge of the use of the sociometric cycle as a tool for exploring changes in roles

Topic: Process Groups
Presenters: Bojana Glusac, TEP, CTP-3 (Serbia)
Erica Hollander, PhD (United States)
Description: Conference Process groups are open sessions with a facilitator. They are an opportunity for meeting other participants that share your interests and experiences, as well as building a community of practice.  The power of process groups lies in the unique opportunity to receive multiple perspectives, support, encouragement and feedback from other individuals in a safe and confidential environment.

Early Process Groups Moderator: Bojana Glusac
Late Process Groups Moderator: Erica Hollander

Small Groups Facilitators: TBD (to be determined)

Topic: Process Groups
Presenters: Bojana Glusac, TEP, CTP-3 (Serbia)
Erica Hollander, PhD (United States)
Description: Conference Process groups are open sessions with a facilitator. They are an opportunity for meeting other participants that share your interests and experiences, as well as building a community of practice.  The power of process groups lies in the unique opportunity to receive multiple perspectives, support, encouragement and feedback from other individuals in a safe and confidential environment.

Early Process Groups Moderator: Bojana Glusac
Late Process Groups Moderator: Erica Hollander

Small Groups Facilitators: TBD (to be determined)

Topic: Beyond Languages
Presenters: Gözde Özer Danış, PhD (Türkiye)
Pınar Ulupınar Erakay, Psy (Türkiye)
İnanç Sümbüloğlu, PhDC (Türkiye)
Description: We invite you to a meeting beyond words and languages via movement. Is it possible to build our boundaries in a meeting "beyond languages" as a way to overcome our limitations in our encounters with others and ourselves? Music, rhythm and our body could be our guide. We would like to meet you in your most comfortable clothes in this translation congress that goes beyond our borders, in action and in a cross-linguistic union. 
 

Topic: Cultural-historical sociodrama: coping with traumatic events of the past
Presenters: Natalia Toumashkova, TEP (Russia)
Victor Semenov, PhD (Russia)
Viktor Zaretskiy, PhD (Russia)
Description: Self-esteem …
... apart from this
, humanity has not come up with anything to save its own.
Bulat Okudzhava


The master class is held in the form of a socio-psychodrama, during which accommodation and reflection of cultural and historical events are organized. We want to offer participants a joint search for resources to free themselves from mental stereotypes and cope with traumatic events of the past. The movement along this path is the reconstruction of one's individual family history and the search in it not only for "negative" messages, but also for resource messages. After all, if we live now, it means that our ancestors found their ways of survival and procreation. Maybe this movement will allow the participants of the process to discover in themselves the resource of the subject of the historical process, to gain a sense of self-worth and responsibility for the trajectory of their own movement in cultural and historical time…

Topic: From Disabilities to Superpowers (Online Approach)
Presenters: Bojana Glusac, TEP, CTP-3 (Serbia)
Andrea Wilches, BS, CTT (Colombia / Argentina )
Description: Online work with a heterogeneous group of participants with different types of disabilities? How to design an online session to engage everybody when some participants have difficulties in hearing, others in seeing, while some of them are having limited body mobility? The answer is simple: focus on their abilities and talents. In this workshop we will think not only about methodology, but also countertransference of therapist, prejudices and disability as a social category. “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” — Helen Keller
Learning Objectives: 1. After attending this workshop participants will be able to facilitate inclusive workshops, awareness activities, and stigma reduction at the individual and community level
2. After attending this workshop participants will be able to apply different online techniques and approaches when working with group of people with different disabilities

Topic: Introduction of a 4-sessions Module for Working Online with Families with Fairy Tales, Familiar Myths and Memories
Presenter: Wilma Scategni, MD (Italy)
Description: Short explanation of the 4 Sessions

• I: Image, fanthasies and fairy tales regarding my family in the first childwood / Creation of a First Poster
• II :The story of our family connecting with familiar myths, in 5 chapter / personal Posters
• III- IV: (Double Session) :The Myths of our family - sharing my personal poster and creation of a new one all toghether with the help of the terapist

Learning Objectives: 1. Explain one synthetic method for working with familiar or educational groups for managing children and adolescents problems
2. Identify the best possibilities for them to use expressive tools and in what situation they can use them in their profesional practice online.

Topic: Let’s Build a “Magic Moment” Together
Presenter: Margarida Belchior, PhD, CTP-2 (Portugal)
Description: We started to use ZOOM for online sociodrama sessions during the pandemic confinement to keep in touch with people, to break isolation and to continue building togetherness. We were skeptical, but we had no choice. We discovered that there were lots of potentialities to be discovered and explored. This workshop is an invitation for building spontaneity and creativity, a “Magic Moment” together in a ZOOM room. Bring your own props near you: scarfs, hats, masks, … 
Learning Objectives: 1. Identify their inner strengths to deal with difficult situations.
2. Recognize how to transform a ZOOM room in a funny and safe environment.

Topic: Psychodrama with Neurodivergent Clients: Effectiveness and Adaptation
Presenter: Alona Seidel, MA, LPC, CP (Israel)
Description: Neurodiversity is a relatively new approach to defining various neurological and behavioral differences observed in humans. Traditionally, they are some pull of neurodevelopmental diagnoses such as ASD, ADHD, DMDD, ODD, etc. This workshop is a result of five years of psychodrama work with neurodivergent adults and explores the effectiveness and possibilities of adaptation of different psychodrama technics for a variety of neurodivergent diagnoses. Also, there is an approach to the broad socio-cultural model of interaction between neurotypical and neurodivergent communities.
Learning Objectives: 1. Recognize the typical behavioral pattern of neurodivergent participants in the group therapy
2. Apply adapted psychodrama techniques to the group therapy with neurodivergent participants

Topic: Psychosomatics and Psychodrama
Presenters: Violeta Azis, PhD, CTP-3 (Bulgaria)
Alexandrina Milcheva, MPsy, CTP-3 ( Bulgaria)
Description: What is the body trying to tell us? Why do we get lost in the translation?
Sometimes our body speaks for us when we don’t. Sometimes we can feel a lot of physical pain when we are deaf for our emotions and feelings. We invite you to find the words and explore the road from psyche to soma.
Learning Objectives: 1. Demonstrate how to use the psychodramatic approach with psychosomatics
2. Identify and differentiate personal feelings and feelings of others

Topic: The Body Experience in Online Group-Analytic Therapy: A Dream Study
Presenter: Domenico Agresta, Psy (Italy)
Description: During the lockdown the experience of the body has changed: the body as a metaphor; the real body; body in dreams; in society, in families. This research started from clinical settings in collaboration with colleagues who applied the same modality to study dreams (anthropopoiesis of dreams) by focusing on somatic icons. The aim was to identify a series of icons capable of representing a significant sample also the phantasmatic experience of the body in the pandemic through the imagery.
Learning Objectives: 1. Identify somatic dreams icons
2. Define the concept of anthropoposieis in group therapy.
 

Topic: The Therapeutic Value of Theater Techniques in Crisis Situations
Presenter: Ofra Faiman, MA (Israel )
Description: I will demonstrate the use of theater techniques to set a crisis situation into a performing-arts framework, with positive therapeutic results. I will recall 3 examples from my own experience: A young child; a group of professional actors; and a group of elderly people. This will be followed by an improvisation session in which pairs of participants will recall a crisis situation and convert it into a theatrical scene. The workshop will end with a sharing/discussion session.
Learning Objectives: 1. Demonstrate use of theater techniques in crisis situations.
2. Apply these techniques in their group work.

Topic: The Use of Action Methods for Leadership Development
Presenter: Nathalie Soussan, MA, MBA (Israel)
Description: No matter the size and purpose of your organization or community, leadership is about understanding and motivating others to achieve great results. By enabling dramatization of situations and activation of the leaders’ right brain, Action methods offer a unique way for leaders to see the world from a different perspective, better understand and communicate with others and uncover creative solutions to their problems. In this workshop we will experience how specific action methods techniques can be applied to support leadership development in an online environment.
Learning Objectives: 1. Recognize the role action methods can play for leadership development and identify the specificities of the organizational context
2. Apply specific action methods in your work with leaders and their teams

Topic: Using Props and Stage in Live Stream during Virtual Meetings
Presenter: Samuel Yie, BA, CTP-2 (South Korea)
Description: While technology allowed us to use virtual platforms such as Zoom and Gather Town to make online psychotherapy possible, when clients aren't familiar with the technology, it could be hard to make requests, even simple ones like using white boards or changing names. Using a second camera for clients to see and interact with can be a simple approach without delays on asking for updating software or installing apps. We will explore and demonstrate utilizing a second camera to have props such as puppets and stones to even just paper on setting a stage and interacting with clients online. We will explore how zoom sessions be more interactive for warm-up, sociometry, psychodrama vignette, Bibliodrama, or even one-on-one psychotherapy/counseling sessions with clients.
Learning Objectives: 1. Explore the use of secondary cameras for stage and action methods
2. Experience using various props and tools to interact with clients on online sessions

Topic: Finding Your True Voice - For Artists and Everyone. Didactic and Experiential Workshop (English)
Presenter: Filipe De Moura, BA, CTT (Portugal)
Description: The voice is the first expression that all human beings have when they are born. It’s a call for life. A statement “I’m here”. Through life, the “voice” also represents the right to exist, the right to express, to choose, to have an opinion or to have freedom. This workshop will go beyond the vocal technique to the depth of the origin of the individual voice, whether you are an artist (singer/actor) or anyone who uses their voice in life.
Learning Objectives: After attending this workshop participants will be able to:

1. Explore how to connect with their inner voice.
2. Describe aspects of vocal technique.

Topic: The Miracle of a Genuine Encounter. Didactic and Experiential Workshop (English)
Presenter: Kate Bradshaw Tauvon, TEP (Sweden)
Description: Realizing my truest self through a genuine encounter with you! “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?” Thoreau
Encounter is the real basis of the psychotherapeutic process:  And when I am near, I will look at you with your eyes and you will look at me with mine. Here-and-now, just heartening us! So paraphrasing Thoreau, we’ll go confidently in the direction of our dreams! Living the life we’ve imagined.
Learning Objectives: After attending this workshop participants will be able to:

1. Determine how to increase self-acceptance, increase authenticity, and increase openness to others.

       2. Describe how to enhance spontaneity; and how to realize innate creativity.

Topic: FaberMeter: New Way of Using Morenian Sociograms with an Online Platform. Experiential & Didactic Workshop (Italian / English)
Presenters: Marco Greco, Psy (Italy)
Paolo Mecacci, MS (Italy)
Francesco Binetti, MS (Italy)
Alessandro Greco, Psy (Italy)
Description: The workshop aims is to present, in an experiential way, a new graphical sociometry tool (Morenian Sociogram) called FaberMeter ™. The experiential workshop will start with a warming up to foster the relationship of the participants amongst each other. After that we will experiment the new online sociometric tool: FaberMeter ™. Additionally, the results of the test will be returned to the group, with space for any questions and to think together about many uses of the Morenian Sociogram in groups.
Learning Objectives: After attending this workshop participants will be able to:

1. Demonstrate Morenian Sociogram through an online platform, FaberMeter ™.

       2. Describe how to articulate a Sociogram tool with a group experience. 

Topic: The Importance of Emotional Intelligence and its Manifestation in a Virtual Environment
Presenters: Vladimir Knežević, MS, CTP-1 (Serbia)
Tatjana Prokic, MS, CTP-1 (Serbia)
Vladana Ninic, MS, CTP-1 (Serbia)
Description: Emotional intelligence (EI) has received increasing attention in recent years as a driver of participants effectiveness. How much emotional intelligence is important in virtual environment, what is the ways of its expressions, how to recognise and explore, self-awareness, self control, self motivation, empathy and social skills and how important is to implement emotional intelligence skills in virtual environment will be the main topic of the presentation.
How to feel the feeling? The importance of being authentic will be emphasized during the workshops with a lot of "pros & cons" regarding warm ups and leading the workshops on this subject.
Learning Objectives: 1. How to increase emotional response within participants
2. How to implement emotional intelligence factors during the online workshop

Topic: Using Attachment Theory to Inform Psychodrama
Presenter: Clark Baim, PhD (United Kingdom)
Description: In this presentation, I will focus on contemporary attachment theory, most specifically Dr Patricia Crittenden's Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM) of Attachment and Adaptation, and the ways in which attachment theory can be integrated with psychodrama in order to enhance the clinical effectiveness of the method and the purposeful adaptation of techniques. I will draw from my chapter 'Integrating Psychodrama with Attachment Theory' in Empowering Therapeutic Practice,' edited by Holmes, Farrall and Kirk (2014).
Learning Objectives: 1. Describe how attachment theory can support the clinical thinking underpinning psychodrama direction.
2. Apply the ideas in the presentation in their choice and implementation of psychodrama techniques.

Topic: International Panel: Psychodrama Treasury: Stories of the Wise
Presenters: Dena Baumgartner, PhD ( United States)
Eva Fahlstrom, LPC, TEP (Sweden)
Inara Erdmanis, TEP (Latvia/Sweden)
Kate Bradshaw Tauvon, TEP (Sweden)
Monica Zuretti, MD (Argentina)
Rosa Cukier, TEP (Brazil)
Anath Garber, TEP (United States)
Chantal Nève-Hanquet, TEP (Belgium)
Diane Adderley, ST, APTT (United Kingdom)
Elaine Sachnoff, PhD (United States)
Judith Teszary (Sweden)
Márcia Karp, TEP (United Kingdom)
Description:

Topic: Social Hour
Presenter: Description: Some of you will prefer to rest during this hour; others will choose to join for additional networking and a fun time. Everyone is welcome to attend this hour which will be full of surprises and offered each day of the conference.   Everyone will receive the link for this event.

Samuel Marcus Egber,
Host of the Social Hour
Tele’Drama International, United States / France


Friday, November 11, 2022:
Main Room: Networking and a Fun Time-
Breakout Room 1:  Emotional Support with Dragana Nikolic
- Breakout Room 2:  Playful Connections with Ann Duchateau
- Breakout Room 3: Front Desk with Tina Stanojevic
 
Saturday, November 12, 2022:
Main room: Networking and a Fun Time
- Breakout Room 1:  Emotional Support with Dragana Nikolic
- Breakout Room 2:  Self-Care with Turkish Delight with Pembegul Ilter
- Breakout Room 3: Front Desk with Tina Stanojevic

 
Sunday, November 13, 2022:
Main room: Networking and a Fun Time
- Breakout Room 1:  Emotional Support with Dragana Nikolic
- Breakout Room 2:  Self-Care with Turkish Delight with Pembegul Ilter
- Breakout Room 3:  Japanese "Matsuri" Festival, the Dance and Fireworks with Ichiro (Okkady) Okajima 
- Breakout Room 4:  Sparkling Moments, a Duo Playback Theatre Performance with Ann Duchateau, Hadass and musician Ward
- Breakout Room 5: Front Desk with Tina Stanojevic

 

Topic: Saturday Late Plenary Sessions (held sequentially): Session # 1: Brazilian Psychodrama: Legacy and the Collective Construction of the Future (Heloisa Fleury, MA); Session # 2: Access to Liberated Presence: Being Of Earth and not On Earth (Leticia Nieto, P
Presenter: Description: The two plenary presentations are held sequentially, one after the other, during the 2-hour time slot.

Brazilian Psychodrama: legacy and the collective construction of the future
Heloisa Fleury, MA

This presentation begins with highlights of the birth of psychodrama in Brazil to contextualize the multiple sociocultural and theoretical influences that contributed to the construction of different trends of contemporary psychodrama. We will present the socio-educational psychodrama/sociodrama applied in some events with important resonances in Brazilian society and on the health and educational fields that contributed to the strengthening of the approach in the country. We will end with some current challenges and reflections on the future of psychodrama.

1. Identify the main features of the Brazilian psychodrama
2. Apply some tools presented on the Brazilian socioeducational psychodrama



Access to Liberated Presence: Being Of Earth and not On Earth
Leticia Nieto, PsyD, TEP

Apocalyptic and doomsday narratives can only go so far to point us in a direction of collective liberation and thrival. What do our personal and collective dreams and stories say about the path from conditioned separation to liberated communion? What might propel us through difference into accountable relatedness? What can we create through ritual that calls in all of us to give the gift of our presence?

Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to recognize prophetic imagination in personal and collective story.
2. Participants will be able to describe the conditions for invitational, transformative presence.

Topic: Colourdrama - Let colour do the talking
Presenter: Mark Wentworth (United Kingdom)
Description: Red, Orange and Violet all meet at the local coffee shop, Red says..., Orange looks aghast and Violet shakes it head in disbelief.
Sometimes there are no words, there is however always colour. Through the dramatic techniques of psychodrama, we have the opportunity to give colour an action, a voice and a movement, and in so doing we have the chance to enter into and see the clients’ worldview through the Soul language of colour.
Learning Objectives: 1. Recognise the symbolic language of colour
2. Apply colour techniques to their daily practice

Topic: Embodying the Inner World in Playback Theatre (Spanish / English)
Presenter: Mireya Esparza, PhD (Mexico)
Description: Playback Theatre practitioners lend their bodies to resonate with stories from tellers on the stage. There are many paths for lending attention to resonance. One of those ways is to know ourselves deeply, to recognize who we are, recognize our shadows and our light – and to connect with the emotions that arise when we encounter ourselves. In this workshop we will exercise, through the body, this recognition and thereby become available to resonate with the stories of others.
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able identify their embodied inner world (shadows and light), as well as, the emotions that accompany embodied experience.
2. Participants will be able to recognize that inner self-knowing is a way to resonate with stories in Playback Theatre.

Topic: Mapping Relationships for Sustainable Recovery, Life Changes & More
Presenters: Jennifer R. Salimbene, TEP (United States)
Regina Sewell, PhD (United States)
Description: The Recovery Atom provides a map of a client’s relationship world to help clients uncover and/or discover who is supportive of their recovery and who are negative influences and identify which relationships to hold on to, which might need changing and which ones to let go of in order to achieve sustainable recovery. While this workshop is focused on addiction, the recovery atom can be helpful for clients striving to make any sort of change.
Learning Objectives: 1. Describe how to create a Recovery Atom.
2. Describe at least two Psychodramatic techniques

Topic: Rising Resilience Through Action and Writing: Ukrainian Therapists' Support Group
Presenters: Alexandr Usov, LMSW (Moldova / United States)
Nancy S. Scherlong, LCSW (United States)
Description: In this collaborative, didactic and experiential workshop, participants will have an opportunity to get in touch with their inner stories of resilience and to cultivate self-compassion through action and writing techniques. Though this session is based on the details of a specific support group offered to Ukrainian therapists, we will explore through a trauma-informed lens, the wider application of these strategies and how to use the sociometric exploration and dramatic play in awaking our Autonomous Healing Centers.
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to identify factors of resilience and how to demonstrate them in action and in writing using structures like self-presentation, metaphor and role reversal and empty chair techniques.
2. Using trauma informed theories, participants will be able to differentiate when to use action or writing methods that focus on the here and now versus exploring one's past or surplus reality.

Topic: What if a Miracle Happened Overnight and Solved all of your Problems? Utilizing Solution-Focused Brief Family Therapy Techniques and Interventions; Violeta D. Kadieva, PhD, LMFT-S and AAMFT Approved Supervisor
Presenter: Artaya Brown, MS, LMFT (United States)
Description: In this presentation we will draw the attention of participants to their forgotten capabilities and help them release themselves from preoccupation with their failures. We will help them restore themselves to their more capable selves by practicing the miracle question, visualizing their miracle, and utilizing some other solution-focused interventions such as exception and scaling questions. The art of solution-focused therapy is in helping people see that their problems have exception-times when the problem wasn’t present and that these exceptions are the solutions that are still available to them.
Learning Objectives: 1. Apply the solution-focused miracle question
2. Define the solution-focused exception question

Topic: Talking and Listening about Messages from the Treasures of Daily Life. Experiential Workshop (Japanese / English)
Presenter: Ichiro (Okkady) Okajima, MA, CTP-2 ( Japan)
Description: We are surrounded by a lot of things in our daily lives. Some of them are important to us, and some we have used for a long time. Our relationship with these items is based on our encounters with them, which may have been given by others or found by chance at a store, as well as how we use or store them. This time, we would like to reflect on the stories we have with these "treasures" and listen to the messages from them. This method is based on what my colleagues and I experienced at a Playback Theater workshop in Japan, and we have applied it to care worker training and junior high school education in Japan, under the name of "Tresure's Message". This time, we are going to try Tresure's Message from the warm-up at TELE'DRAMA, and we would like to discuss ideas on how to implement it as TELE'DRAMA.
Learning Objectives: After attending this workshop participants will be able to:

1. Recognize relationship between the object and myself.
2. Recognize the beauty of listening and expressing one’s best for others.

Topic: Compassionate State of My Mind: Psychodrama and Role Theory
Presenter: Ozge Kantas, PhD, PAT (United States)
Description: Self-compassion is an alternative coping mechanism and skill that goes beyond the potentially dark ego-involvements of self-esteem. Though research says it is healthier to have compassion towards one's own flaws and life's setbacks, it is easier said than done.  As Zerka Moreno said, psychodrama is the "The Theatre of Mercy" where love and acceptance are found with an experience of common humanity. Therefore, self-compassion is a valuable skill that can be developed via psychodrama effectively. Participants will be able to exercise six dimensions of self-compassion based on role theory to explore spontaneously and creatively based on their own needs and strenghts. 
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to define what self-compassion is and differentiate its dimensions for higher wellbeing
2. Participants will be able to recognize how role theory can set the ground for us to be compassionate and demonstrate flexibility based on their own needs and strengths.

Topic: Using Improv to Improve Warm-up in Virtual & Live Spaces
Presenter: Rhona Case, M.Ed., TEP (United States)
Description: Improv is a fun way to warm up a group and get to know each other. It is a playful and gentle way for issues to emerge.
Moreno informs us that our warm-up increases spontaneity and spontaneity increases creativity.
We, as directors, need to be warmed up to be our most creative selves.
Our clients need to be warmed up in order to be open and ready to work.
Join me as we experience several improv activities and learn how to identify issues for future work!
 
Learning Objectives: 1. Apply improv activities as warm-ups.
2. Learn how to Identify issues that emerge from improv activities.

Topic: Working with Immigrant Families
Presenters: Candice Jones Ronemus, LPC Associate (United States)
Joanne Franks, LPC (United States)
Description: A look into the growing number of immigrant families in counseling.
Learning Objectives: 1. After attending this workshop participants will be able to recognize the unique challenges immigrants face when moving to a new country.
2. After attending this workshop participants will be able to identify immigrants growing impact on counseling.

Topic: Process Groups
Presenters: Bojana Glusac, TEP, CTP-3 (Serbia)
Erica Hollander, PhD (United States)
Description: Conference Process groups are open sessions with a facilitator. They are an opportunity for meeting other participants that share your interests and experiences, as well as building a community of practice.  The power of process groups lies in the unique opportunity to receive multiple perspectives, support, encouragement and feedback from other individuals in a safe and confidential environment.

Early Process Groups Moderator: Bojana Glusac
Late Process Groups Moderator: Erica Hollander

Small Groups Facilitators: TBD (to be determined)

Topic: Process Groups
Presenters: Bojana Glusac, TEP, CTP-3 (Serbia)
Erica Hollander, PhD (United States)
Description: Conference Process groups are open sessions with a facilitator. They are an opportunity for meeting other participants that share your interests and experiences, as well as building a community of practice.  The power of process groups lies in the unique opportunity to receive multiple perspectives, support, encouragement and feedback from other individuals in a safe and confidential environment.

Early Process Groups Moderator: Bojana Glusac
Late Process Groups Moderator: Erica Hollander

Small Groups Facilitators: TBD (to be determined)

Topic: Applying Role Theory of Moreno in Play Therapy with Children ( Bulgarian / English)
Presenter: Daniela Tahirova, MPsy, CTT (Bulgaria)
Description: Change beyond borders of theories
As I am a certified psychodrama therapist on one hand, and on the other hand I am director of psychodrama with children – play therapy according to the method of Aachinger and Hall, I would like to bring to your attention my way of combining and using both of these approaches at the same time.
Which crossings of theories is useful and which boundaries should not be crossed

We will explore deeper role play - the role of the child, the role of the therapist, how we use the roles of other children.
Learning Objectives: 1. After attending this workshop participants will get an idea of ​​the application of Moreno's role theory in my therapeutic practice with children
2. After attending this workshop participants will begin to understand the similarities and differences between psychodrama and play therapy

Topic: Bibliodrama Exploration of The Cross
Presenter: Antonio Aras, MC, CTP-1 (Serbia)
Description: The cross is a cosmic symbol, a point of communication between heaven and earth. Symbolic of the archetypal man/woman capable of infinite and harmonious expansion on both the horizontal and vertical planes, the vertical line is celestial, spiritual, intellectual, positive, active, masculine; the horizontal line is earthly, rational, intuitive, negative, passive, feminine. During the workshop, there is a strong presence of the Superego, that is, conscience and morality. Group participants review what they were given at birth, what they have experienced throughout their lives, as well as what potentially lies ahead. Through contact with archetypes, they are driven to individuation. Jung believed that "the main symbolic figures of any religion always express a certain moral and intellectual attitude." The cross, according to Jung, embodies the idea of dispensation. From the perspective of the Transactional Analysis theory, through the application of psychodrama techniques in this workshop, the awakening and strengthening of the Free Child (creativity, liberation...) is sufficiently achieved. Previously, the contents of Criticizing Parents will be contained and confronted by the leader/therapist, as well as other group members.

Topic: Bringing the Outdoors In
Presenter: Kirsty Weedon, Psy (United Kingdom)
Description: As therapists, working inside and online, how do we attend to nature in our practice?
In this creative and experiential workshop, Kirsty will invite you to notice your relationship with nature and consider how we can integrate nature in our practice. 
 

Topic: Collective Dream Work in Virtual Spaces
Presenters: Reyhan Çakmak, MS (Türkiye)
Turabi Yerli, MD (Türkiye)
Description: The aim of this study is to realize by experience how effective the collective processes are as well as the individual backgrounds of dreams. After the dreams/experiences they shared, the participants will express the figures/characters that they are most affected by these shares. The figures/characters who receive the most selection by the group will be experienced by taking roles and interact with others. This process can be repeated multiple times. Finally, there will be sharing and the participants will discover the ties related to their own lives.
Learning Objectives: 1. Examine their dreams in an analytical way
2. Apply collective dream work in their group process

Topic: Facilitating Collective Intelligence : Action Methods Beyond Borders of Therapeutic Field
Presenters: Chantal Nève-Hanquet, TEP (Belgium)
Agathe Crespel, CFIP, ITI (Belgium)
Description: The workshop will focus on different ways to innovate, coconstruct and and support change with Action Methods, as creative ways for broadening the field of possibilities in working teams, organizations, groups and communities, through supervision, training, coaching and leadership. This experiential workshop will be articulate to our book : "Facilitating Collective Intelligence : a handbook for Trainers, Coaches, Consultants and Leaders" (Routledge 2020)- Foreword by Daniela Simmons and endorsement by Adam Blatner.
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to use a least one of our technique in a non therapeutical field
2. Participants will recognize inner attitudes to facilitate communication and change in a group

Topic: From Chair to Throne!
Presenter: Abrar Qari, MD (Saudi Arabia)
Description: As we know, every single behaviour in our lives is born from a belief and the belief is a collection of ideas and every idea associated with a specific feeling. It is deep and inspiring to trace our behaviours by using the power of transforming chairs to upgrade our mindset.This workshop has the magical power to transform your simple chair to a throne!
Learning Objectives: 1. Identify the type of chairs in our daily life and the power of choice
2. Apply the chairs method in their daily life situation and observe the transformation that might occur when using different chair style

Topic: Playback Theatre as a Method in Coaching, Counselling and Therapy
Presenter: Ann Duchateau (Belgium)
Description: Playback Theatre converts personal stories into improvised theatre pieces. When participants in a group play back to each other, they practice their empathic (listening) ability. Playing back increases also their creativity, spontaneity, authenticity, the trust in their intuition and in the wisdom of their own bodies. You will experience how a few simple forms can be used to work with your participants and clients. Expand your creative practice and experience how Playback Theatre contributes to personal growth and fun!
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to identify how Playback Theatre can help groups and individuals socially, emotionally and cognitively.
2. Participants will be able to apply at least one Playback Theatre form.
 

Topic: Radical Love Revolution - Self/Collective Care in Social Justice Movements
Presenter: Sandra Ljubinkovic, CTP-1 (Serbia/Netherlands)
Description: "Love is profoundly political. Our deepest revolution will come when we understand this truth... The transformative power of love is the foundation of all meaningful social change …
When all else has fallen away, love sustains". ~ bell hooks
Radical Love Revolution ( “radical” simply means grasping things at the root on a foundational and fundamental level), will create space for deeper understanding of politics of care in social justice movements and why the radical love revolution is a way to sustain our movements, communities and planet
Learning Objectives: 1. The session will explore ways of radical love in our lives
2. The session will explain that personal is political

Topic: Sharing Experience of a Horizontal Project Together with the Roma Communites, Living on the Garbage Dump
Presenters: Eva Fahlstrom, LPC, TEP (Sweden)
Lăcătuș-Iakab Bela-Olimpiu, MSW (Romania)
Description: Around 300 Roma families live in extreme poverty, excluded by society, in a toxic area near the garbage dump outside the beautiful medieval university town Cluj Napoca, Transylvania, Romania. 
Olimpiu and Eva have been working on a horizontal project together with the Roma communities aiming at social justice, housing, employment, culture and above all – quality schools for the children.“Solving someone else's problem is theft” said J.L. Moreno. Working side by side with the Roma community has been a challenge – trying to overcome centuries of mutual distrust. To overcome the distrust we have used the methodology of Restorative Practices.

Topic: The Brain Asks Three Questions. How to Listen and Answer with Empathy?
Presenter: Nikola Dimov, MC, CTP-1 (Bulgaria)
Description: You are invited to hear more deeply the messages our brain sends us under stressful circumstances. We will connect the group experience with the brain structures that seek safety, acceptance, connection and learning. Mastering this, we can grow in our ability to be more trauma-sensitive and therefore create a more safe environment where connection and development blossoms. Nonviolent communication techniques of empathic listening will be demonstrated and applied on the stage, exploring effects and strategies working with children, adolescents, adults or ourselves.
Learning Objectives: 1. Recognize the basic stress responses and brain structures and the “messages” they send when a need is not being met.
2. Apply techniques from nonviolent communication (NVC) via action methods in order to translate emphatically any message and behavior to the language of universal human needs.
 

Topic: The Magic Shop: A Playful Approach to Creative Change - The One We Want or The One We Suffer
Presenter: Marie-Louise Pierson, Psy (France)
Description: Among the brilliant inventions of Jacob Lévy Moreno, from the marvelous Empty Chair, to the Change of Role, there is a dramatic game which is often used as a warm up, but is also a formidable tool for self reflection and creative openness to change, and other unknown possibilities. This is the famous Magic Shop (La Boutique Magique).

We will follow the steps as JL Moreno taught us on the stage of the Beacon theater.
Here they are:

1- Setting up of the Magic Shop by the Psychodrama Director (the owner) and silent reflection by the participants about what they want to buy.
2- Description of the Magic Shop in the space by the participants.
3- Entry into the shop by the participants who will be asked what “quality” they wish to acquire.
4- Dialogue with the owner of the shop and intervention (“for” or “against”) of the participants.
5- Sharing. We usually laugh a lot and often in this dramatic game which all kinds of public ( children, adults, seniors, ) love to attend.
 
Learning Objectives: Learning Objectives:
1. Increase the creative abilities to change of the participants. - identify the "nocebo effect" (Pygmalion effect).
2. Become aware of self defeating or self fulfillment prophecies.

Topic: “As if in the Same Room": Utilizing Spectrogram in the Zoom Room
Presenter: Pembegül İlter, MA, CTP-2 (Türkiye)
Description: This workshop presents online experiential group tools useful in any group setting, including clinical work, teaching, supervision, and community work.
Participants will have the opportunity to experience and practice the spectrogram, which is an action-based self-assessment tool, in a more lively, creative, entertaining, playful way and "as if in the same room" on the zoom platform. They will also learn how to use the immersive view on the Zoom platform to implement spectrograms.
Didactic and experiential — open to all levels.
Learning Objectives: 1. Apply one or more sociometry techniques on the zoom platform to gather information about participants in an online group setting;
2. Explain how you would integrate spectrograms into your online work to create connection and harmony among families, couples, and groups.

Topic: How Families and Couples of Iraq Acquire Solution for Healing their Trauma; Finding Hope and Life Fulfilment; Stories of Success and Challenges (English)
Presenter: Shyaw Nawroly & Ahmed Khalidi, Family Therapists (Iraq)
Description: In this workshop, entrepreneurs, family therapists and spouses, Shyaw and Ahmed, are telling their success story regarding their work with families.
People of Iraq have encountered so many traumatic moments that affected them on many levels. At first it made people get stuck in their unprocessed emotions. This led them to take the role of the victim in all life aspects, especially family, as a helpless authoritarian or permissive parent in relationship with a passive aggressive spouse, or in life as a victim while choosing powerlessness as a way to deal with all the political, social injustice. This collective pain remained and got bigger with no processing.
Since psycho-education is lacking in the area, the presenters will talk about their work that introduces parents to a leadership mindset in their relationship with their children; empowers spouses to hear their inner voice; giving them tools how to deal with the resistance for change; and gives them perspective on how to find balance between individualism and relationship. They empower women to be brave and have high level of self-esteem. They encourage men to express their emotions and help unmarried single individuals to deal with their unresolved trauma. In this workshop, they talk about the secrets of their success in transforming the lives of thousands of families, spouses and individuals and how their work helped them find hope, joy and fulfilment.
Learning Objectives: After attending this workshop participants will be able to:

1. Recognize the specifics of the relations within Kurdish Families .

       2. Recognize how a humanistic approach can help Kurdish families find hope and healing in their life. 

Topic: Feet in Slippers and Head is Online
Presenters: Alexandra Doljenko, Psy (Russia)
Zaure Tulebaeva, MS (Kazakhstan)
Description: In this workshop, we propose to explore the unusual combination of homely, cozy, and professionally neutral roles, and their mutual influence.
How do "slippers" affect the image of the therapist, his sense of self, the process of therapy and the client's perception? We invite you to see what impression your online image makes on people on the other side of the screen, to check how much what you broadcast matches with how it is perceived.

Topic: Embracing the "Enemy within“: New Insights into the Root Causes of Autoimmune Neurodegenerative Diseases through Tele’Drama
Presenter: Mirjana Stankovic, MA, CTP-1 (Serbia)
Description: A demonstrative Tele’Drama session includes an interesting sociometric exercise and relies on effective psychodramatic techniques and available Zoom features (but neutral to the participants, such as empty chair and doubling), to explore a possible correlation of the incidence of an autoimmune neurodegenerative disease with a number of potential underlying factors, such as genetic predisposition, character and personality traits, adopted patterns, attachment theories, programs and introjects, childhood trauma. It will also be explored how the „chronic condition“ is embedded in the here and now, through expressed personal values, attitudes and behavioural aspects and how it could project itself into the future.

Topic: Transgenerational Jungian Psychodrama
Presenter: Maurizio Gasseau, TEP (Italy)
Description: The objective of Transgenerational Psychodrama is to loosen the bonds of loyalty and invisible scripts inherited from previous generations, making them explicit and releasing the psychic energy they encysted. Transgenerational Psychodrama is based on the concept of co - unconscious to understand the invisible bonds of loyalty, tasks unfinished, trauma and wounds of love that is passed down through the generations. The awareness of a strong family constellation, free the individual from the unconscious compulsive repetition of relational models and opens up the possibility of an authentic life. Participants will be accompanied on the streets of the Ancestors in a frame with warming up on transgenerational and exploration of dreams and active imagination in the encounter with Ancestors, through the Jungian psychodrama. It derives from Jung’s analytical theory on dreams, from his concepts of the personal and collective unconsciousness, of archetypal images and individuation. After the final sharing, there will be a narrative observation that will communicate the sense of representations, and the dreams which have been played. It will enrich the plays with mythopoeic amplifications and will try to connect individual themes to the group’s collective unconsciousness as well as to the transcultural themes.

 
Learning Objectives: 1. Differentiate Jungian Psychodrama from classic psychodrama,
2. Describe how to play dreams

Topic: Sunday Early Plenary Sessions (held sequentially): Plenary # 1: 2-Director Online Psychodrama in Korea (Sung Hee Cho, PhD; Soon Sob Lee, TEP; and Kyung Ae Shin PhD); Plenary # 2: Sociometrics: Experiential Therapy Made Manageable (Tian Dayton, PhD)
Presenter: Description: The two plenary presentations are held sequentially, one after the other, during the 2-hour time slot.

Session # 1 (60 min): "2-Director Online Psychodrama in Korea"
Sung Hee Cho, PhD; Soon Sob Lee, TEP; and Kyung Ae Shin PhD

During the COVID-19 pandemic, online psychodrama has been widely experimented in Korea. Starting a year ago, we experimented with 2-director online psychodrama with colleague psychodramatists, and found that it was very well accepted. Since then, my colleague and I enjoy doing 2-director online psychodrama. At our presentation, the benefits of 2 director online psychodrama will be presented, and some tips will be discussed.

Learning Objectives:
1. Explain what to know and how to do 2-director online psychodrama
2. Recognize how 2-director psychodrama benefits the group and the supervision of new directors



Session # 2 (60 min): Sociometrics: Experiential Therapy Made Manageable
Tian Dayton, PhD

Sociometrics are embodied, research based experiential processes that are psycho-educational and help clients to move organically from states of dysregulation to co-regulation. They feel welcoming and safe, clients are out of their seats, on their feel, grounded in the room and engaging with eachother .
Created by Dr. Dayton to fit easily into treatment, out-patient programs, clinics and one to one settings, sociometrics help to take the guess work out of incorporating psychodrama and sociometry into treatment. In this experiential workshop we’ll use lecture and film clips to demonstrate embodied process of both role play and group processes that engage and bond participants. We’ll see how Floor Checks incorporate research-based education that literally pulls dry lecture material off of chalkboards and turns it into spontaneous and alive case studies that both teach and heal. And we’ll learn how to use The Trauma Timeline to trace and work with developmental trauma.
 
Goals:
·      To learn how to use Floor Checks to engage, bond and educate groups.
·      To learn how to use The Trauma Timeline to trace developmental trauma to points throughout the life cycle.
·      To see how to incorporate simple, focused role plays into sociometric processes.
·      To learn how to use The Trauma Timeline as a paper and pencil process for group or one-to-one.
·      To explore how to use embodied, experiential processes in a safe and contained way.
 

Topic: Social Hour
Presenter: Description: Some of you will prefer to rest during this hour; others will choose to join for additional networking and a fun time. Everyone is welcome to attend this hour which will be full of surprises and offered each day of the conference.   Everyone will receive the link for this event.

Samuel Marcus Egber,
Host of the Social Hour
Tele’Drama International, United States / France


Friday, November 11, 2022:
Main Room: Networking and a Fun Time-
Breakout Room 1:  Emotional Support with Dragana Nikolic
- Breakout Room 2:  Playful Connections with Ann Duchateau
- Breakout Room 3: Front Desk with Tina Stanojevic
 
Saturday, November 12, 2022:
Main room: Networking and a Fun Time
- Breakout Room 1:  Emotional Support with Dragana Nikolic
- Breakout Room 2:  Self-Care with Turkish Delight with Pembegul Ilter
- Breakout Room 3: Front Desk with Tina Stanojevic

 
Sunday, November 13, 2022:
Main room: Networking and a Fun Time
- Breakout Room 1:  Emotional Support with Dragana Nikolic
- Breakout Room 2:  Self-Care with Turkish Delight with Pembegul Ilter
- Breakout Room 3:  Japanese "Matsuri" Festival, the Dance and Fireworks with Ichiro (Okkady) Okajima 
- Breakout Room 4:  Sparkling Moments, a Duo Playback Theatre Performance with Ann Duchateau, Hadass and musician Ward
- Breakout Room 5: Front Desk with Tina Stanojevic

 

Topic: INTERNATIONAL TELE'DRAMA GALA
Presenter: Description: INTERNATIONAL TELE'DRAMA GALA: An entertaining live musical and dance program with professional performers from various countries and genres. The International Tele'Drama Gala is our signature event and it is highly enjoyable for those who attend. Relax and enjoy; or sing along and dance together with entertainers from around the world. Expect amazing surprises!CO-MASTERS OF THE CEREMONY: Samuel Yie (South Korea); Tatjana Prokić (Serbia); Filipe De Moura (Portugal)


PERFORMERS
Gary Freeman (USA); Cheila Raposo (Portugal); Kelsey Mira (USA); Amalia Baraona
Bossa Nova Trio (Serbia/Portugal); Filipe De Moura (Portugal); Tanja Lee (USA); Lili Mireva (Bulgaria)  

 

Topic: Exploring Modern Myth with Action Methods
Presenters: Angela Christoph, MA, CTP-2 ( Austria / Germany)
Louisa Foster, PsyD, CTP-2 (United States)
Description: Using contemporary myth, this workshop explores the relevance of archetypal motifs in understanding modern day challenges. What do collective stories teach us about navigating the chaos of current times? Using psychodramatic techniques, we will deconstruct a modern myth in order to enrich our view of ourselves and our world.
Learning Objectives: 1. Identifying archetypal motives to help us better understand our own lives.
2. Recognize different feminist perspectives.

Topic: It's Not the Substance it's the System
Presenters: Catherine Swiatocha, MS (United States)
Emilia Rodriguez MMFT, LMFT-Associate (United States)
Benjamin Eule, MS, LMFT-Associate (United States)
Description: This presentation will focus on how the rise in substance addiction impacts families and societies at large. It will examine historical roots, epigenetic factors and how systemic interactional patterns within families have contributed to this rising epidemic. Interventions and treatment models will be reviewed.
 
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to understand alcohol and substance use/abuse/dependence affects family relationships.
2. Participants will be able to assess, intervene, and treat the family experiencing problems related to substance use disorders using Family Systems and Family Crisis Models of Therapy.

Topic: Psychodrama for Psychedelic Integration: Tapping Surplus Reality
Presenter: Carola Marashi, M.A. (United States)
Description: Psychedelic therapy is spreading like mushrooms around the globe.
Psychedelic is a state of mind. In this state there is no problem to solve, nothing broken to fix and nothing needs to go away. Psychodrama mirrors Psychedelics by facing, engaging and participating. We go outside the box and out on a limb. Through enchantment, we conjure creativity and spontaneity. Once we surrender the belief that we're all alone surplus reality is within reach. The protagonist steps onto the stage and the group is gifted. Each drama serves human evolution.
Learning Objectives: 1. After attending this workshop participants will be able to recognize how Psychodrama mirrors Psychedelic State of Mind. Through enchantment, we will conjure surplus reality.
2. After attending this workshop participants will be able to apply psychodrama for Psychedelic Integration Therapy.

Topic: Tele'Drama's Sobriety Shop: Where Enchanting Transformations Await you...
Presenters: Betty Garrison, MS, CTP-2 ( United States)
Tina Stanojevic, BS, CTP-2 (Serbia)
Description:
Learning Objectives: 1. Demonstrate Sobriety Shop in their own ways.
2. Apply Sobriety Shop to their groups.

Topic: Trajectories: Images of Self and the Roads Taken
Presenter: Claudia Ledesma, PhDC (Mexico)
Description: Participants will need to bring 10 photographs from their family album, those most valued. We will also use paper and coloring pencils or pens. The work in this workshop will develop over three moments: “the now” where you find yourself, physical and emotional imagery, and “again in the now” – where we will bring family treasure and journeys taken and will share one in the group.
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to recognize familiar images to construct personal and familial geo-emotive routes.
2. Participants will be able to identify the causes of family and personal trajectories, along with associated emotions, in order to name purpose for the participant in finding themself in the present.

Topic: Working with Food Atoms
Presenter: Colleen Baratka, MA, TEP (United States)
Description: Desserts spells stressed backwards, because sometimes cake is more than the last course. The food atom is a sociogram exploring an individual’s emotional relationship to food. Developed to help in the treatment of eating disorders, this atom can be tailored to help deal with other food related issues or as a group warm-up. During this group, participants will practice creating Food Atoms on paper and in action.
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will construct a Food Atom and analyze its contents.
2. Participants will differentiate between eating disorders and emotional eating.

Topic: Process Groups
Presenters: Bojana Glusac, TEP, CTP-3 (Serbia)
Erica Hollander, PhD (United States)
Description: Conference Process groups are open sessions with a facilitator. They are an opportunity for meeting other participants that share your interests and experiences, as well as building a community of practice.  The power of process groups lies in the unique opportunity to receive multiple perspectives, support, encouragement and feedback from other individuals in a safe and confidential environment.

Early Process Groups Moderator: Bojana Glusac
Late Process Groups Moderator: Erica Hollander

Small Groups Facilitators: TBD (to be determined)