Topic: Pre-conference Day 1 (Sunday) GRAND OPENING CEREMONY (International: The Tele'Drama Team)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Members of the Internationsl Tele'Drama Team will present from the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria; together with other members, who will be in their homes and offices around the world, for a wonderful and truly hybrit experience.

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 this magical virtual experience, connecting with people from around the world, amazing virtual arts, creativity, colour, movement and music. 

Topic: Pre-conference Day 1 (Sunday) : Opening Plenary: ANOTHER STEP CLOSER TO EQUAL EXPERIENCES: MERGING VIRTUAL & PHYSICAL REALITY INTO A FUSIONAL INTER-REALITY IN PSYCHOTHERAPY & EDUCATION; Daniela Simmons, PhD, TEP and the Tele'Drama Leadership Team
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Dr. Daniela Simmons and members of the Internationsl Tele'Drama Team will present from the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria; together with other members, who will be in their homes and offices around the world, for a wonderful and truly hybrid experience.


This opening plenary session will demonstrate an innovative Tele’Drama modality for combined in-person & remote interactive and experiential learning via Zoom meetings. In-person attendees and remote attendees will connect and experience the group process in action together. Dr. Daniela Simmons and her colleagues from various countries will co-direct and moderate the Zoom meeting for the fully engaged participation of remote attendees. The Tele’Drama Team will merge the physical and the virtual space for a powerful experience of all participants.   

Topic: Pre-conference Day 1 (Sunday): Plenary: VIRTUAL HEALING CENTER PROJECT, Center for Psychological Support at University Hospital Lozenetz; Violeta Azis, PhD, CTP-3; Zdravka Anina, MS; Lubomir Draganov, MS (Bulgaria)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Leaders of the Center for Psychological Support at University Hospital Lozenetz, Dr. Violeta Azis, PhD, CTP-3 (Conference Co-chair); Zdravka Anina, MS; Lubomir Draganov, MS, will be presenting on the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria. The experience will include everyone - the group, attending in Sofia, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

“Awakening the autonomous healing center, the power to heal oneself, is how I see the value of psychodrama and all forms of therapy.” Zerka T Moreno

The genius, spontaneity and inspiration of J.L. Moreno and the systematic grounded spirituality of his collaborator and wife Zerka T. Moreno, gave this world comprehensive methods to address all dimensions of human existence. For individual development, psychodrama was created; for group development, sociodrama was created; while Sociatry addresses the underlying structure of our culture. What connects these to one another? The answer is in mystic codes they embedded into their work to addresses a core idea: There is always at least two of us at all times. If I am alone, there is me in relationship to the field around me, that Zerka called the autonomous healing center and J.L. called the godhead. This field is all around us, between us, and in us all at the same time.

Moreno also discovered that in all organizations, groups and nations, there is an underlying structure that exists that has a determining impact on all areas of social reality. This discovery along with the autonomous healing center is what we call Social Justice Mysticism.


 


 
Learning Objectives: In this Plenary presentation we will offer:
1. Deeper understanding of the Encounter Symbol as a presentation of First and
Second Universe dynamic, the psychology of Moreno.
2. Explanation of the underlying structure of society and social microscopy.
3. Review of 4 basic codes and practical implementation in awakening practice.

Topic: Pre-conference Day 2 (Monday): Parallel Workshop # 1: THE LOST SELF: TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, TRAUMA & IDENTITY; Colleen Baratka, MA, TEP (USA); Deborah Karner, LCSW, TEP (USA)
Presenter: Description: The Lost Self: Traumatic Brain Injury, Trauma, and Identity

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. 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 TBI and trauma using Moreno’s Role Theory.
 

Topic: Pre-conference Day 2: (Monday) Parallel Workshop # 2: PSYCHOSOMATICS & PSYCHODRAMA; Alexandrina Milcheva, MPsy, CTP-3; Violeta Azis, PhD, CTP-3 (Bulgaria)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Alexandrina Milcheva, MPsy, CTP-3 and Violeta Azis, PhD, CTP-3 will be presenting on the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria. The experience will include everyone - the group, attending in Sofia, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

This workshop is going to present the Psychosomatic and Health Atom, which we developed and use in our practice. These atoms give a deep understanding of the relationships that one has with their own body. When feelings and emotions are not acknowledged, the body speaks instead. Why and when do we lose ourselves in translation? We invite you to find the words and explore the road from psyche to soma.
 
Learning Objectives: 1. Learn how to use the Psychosomatic and Health Atom.
2. Demonstrate how to use the psychodramatic approach with psychosomatics

Topic: Pre-conference Day 2: Parallel Workshop # 3: FROM ANXIETY THROUGH PSYCHODRAMA TO SPONTANEITY: IS PSYCHODRAMA AN EFFECTIVE METHOD IN THE THERAPY OF PANIC DISORDER? Galabina Tarashoeva, MD, PhD (Bulgaria)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Dr. Galabina Tarashoeva, MD, PhD, will be presenting on the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria. The experience will include everyone - the group, attending in Sofia, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

Galabina Tarashoeva, MD, PhD,
Petra Marinova – Djambazova, MD, PhD
Psychodrama Center & Psychiatric Practice Orpheus
Medical University Sofia, department of Psychiatry

Sofia, Bulgaria,
orpheuspsychodrama@gmail.com
Membership: IAGP, FEPTO, BSPGT, BAP, BMU
Abstract of paper presentation

English language, number of participants – no limit, Psychodrama
Keywords: psychodrama, spontaneity, anxiety, research, test, panic disorder
The results of our rеsearch “Some aspects of effectiveness of psychodrama therapy with
patients with panic disorder” show that psychodrama is an effective method for reduction of
anxiety and increase of spontaneity; and these effects continue for 6 months after completing
the course of treatment. We found a statistically significant
negative correlation between changes in spontaneity and anxiety values for all subjects.
Increased spontaneity was also associated with an increase in mental well-being,
improvement in overall clinical outcome and function, reduction of problems / symptoms in
patients with panic disorder. Our results support Morenos thesis that spontaneity and anxiety
can exist within the same person, but not at the same time, nor within the same situation
(Moreno, 1964); and fully confirm the results of professor David Kipper, proving a positive
correlation between measured spontaneity and well-being, self-efficacy and self-esteem, and
a negative correlation between spontaneity and anxiety, stress, and obsessive-compulsive
tendencies (Christoporou & Kipper, 2006; Kipper et al. 2008; 2009).
Moreno explores spontaneity with active methods such as the Spontaneity Test
(Moreno, 1944), while professor David Kipper creates an instrument called SAI-R
(Spontaneity Assessment Inventory), a self-report, special questionnaire to measure
spontaneity (Kipper et al., 2008), validated in many languages, including Bulgarian (Testoni
et al., 2013).
The participants will learn about the story and the concept of creation of this research, the
used instruments and the results of it.

Topic: Pre-conference Day 2: Parallel Workshop # 4: UNMASKING THE SELF: EXPRESSIVE ARTS EXPLORATIONS; Jennie Kristel, MA, REAT, APTT (USA)
Presenter: 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: Pre-conference Day 2: Plenary # 1: MORENO'S SOCIAL ATOM THROUGH A HYBRID APPROACH; Tian Dayton, PhD, TEP (USA)
Presenter: Description: In this experiential, embodied workshop we’ll explore how to use the social atom using TELE’DRAMA’s hybrid approach. Dr. Dayton will present and direct from New York, a protagonist will emerge online from somewhere in the world and their social atom will be enacted using Dr. Daniela Simmons’ trained auxiliaries on stage at the in-person conference site in Bulgaria. Actualizing Moreno’s vision that technology can be used to heal, as well as his personal mission to help “all of mankind”, we will bring our creativity and spontaneity together to explore hybrid approaches to healing through psychodrama.

 

Topic: Pre-conference Day 2: Plenary # 2: COMMUNICATION AND ENHANCING INSIGHT 3D EXPERIENTIAL TOOLS FOR TRAUMA, NEUROLOGICAL OR PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS; CARLOS A RAIMUNDO, MD AND MELANIE RAIMUNDO, PSY (Australia)
Presenter: Description: Dr. Carlos Raimundo, MD will be presenting from his home in Kingscliff, Australia; and Melanie Raimundo will be co-presenting from her home in Sydney, Australia, partnering with the Tele'Drama Team; including the participating group in Sofia; and the participants connecting individually from around the world.


A major symptom of any emotional-mental disorders and trauma is confusion.Confusion is felt as disorientation, affecting dentity, meaning, purpose, inability to make decisions, speaking in a way that is hard to understand. You’ll learn a 3d experiential tool that bypasses confusional states providing clarity and facilitating communication in a few minutes.  Useful with people with language and communication problems: refugees, trauma, neurological or psychiatric disorders. A practical tool for doctors, psychiatrists, nurses, therapists, or counsellors. www.Playoflife.com  One of the first symptoms of anxiety and any emotional-mental disorders and trauma is confusion.Confusion is felt as disorientation, memory problems, disempowering beliefs affecting identity meaning and purpose, lack of concentration, inability to make decisions, difficulty with speech, and incoherence, speaking in a way that is hard to understand or making little sense. This state of mind affects not only those affected but also those close to them and creates a great challenge for those who wish to help them, doctors, psychiatrists, nurses, therapists, or counsellors.Facilitating Clarity for those in need is critical to elicit breakthroughs in their life.The Play of Life is an experiential method that enhances and facilitates insight and provides clarity in a few minutes. The method is based on neuroscience; it bypasses cognitive biases by activating the limbic system and brainstem, brain circuits that are non-verbal. So not accessible by language.The practitioner, instead of saying, “tell me more”, says, “Show Me,” and the problem the person faces is depicted in 3D. The method is easy to learn and can be applied by any health professional. It is also an effective tool for assisting refugees, those with different types of emotional, psychiatric and communicational-language problems, neurological dysfunctions, anxiety and trauma. The method can be used in face-to-face or online sessions. It can be used by everyone as a communication tool and in therapy and supervision by professionals. Participants will be able to use the Play of Life app free for three months. See more: www.Playoflife.com  Presenters:
 Dr Carlos A. Raimundo is an Argentinian psychiatrist, psychotherapist and researcher in insight and behavioural communication. He lives in Australia. He’s an adjunct research fellow at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He is the creator of the Play of Life, for which he received the IAPP Innovator Award in 2002, and RCompass, a digital sociometry app.Melanie Raimundo is a counsellor and head trainer-supervisor of Play of Life and director of Active Learning International, the umbrella organisation of Play of Life and RCompass.

Topic: Pre-conference Day 3: Parallel Workshop # 1: WARM-UPS FOR LIVE AND VIRTUAL THERAPEUTIC AND EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS; Rhona Case, M.Ed., TEP (USA)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Rhona Case, M.Ed., TEP (USA), will be presenting on the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria. The experience will include everyone - the group, attending in Sofia, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

If you want to have fun during the learning process, come to this workshop!
Bring with you a favorite item of some sort; a stuffed animal, character, or anything that calls out to you.
Warm-up is important for most things in life. Jacob Moreno, with his Canon of Creativity, stresses the importance of warm-up as a necessity to activate our spontaneity. With spontaneity we can enter the realm of creativity. Together we will explore the warm-up of the Director, as well as group participants.
Join us and expect to have a lot of fun!
Learning Objectives: 1. Directors will experience the importance of their own warm-up
2. Participants will learn warm-ups that activate playfulness for enhanced
spontaneity.
3. Participants will explore how to identify themes and issues for
psychodramatic work.

Topic: Pre-conference Day 3: Parallel Workshop # 2: THE BIRTH OF THE MOTHER - UTILIZING PSYCHODRAMA & OTHER ACTION METHODS IN PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH; Aneta Kalcheva, MS, CTP-3 (Bulgaria)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Aneta Kalcheva, MS, CTP-3, will be presenting on the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria. The experience will include everyone - the group, attending in Sofia, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new." Osho, Indian Religious LeaderWhen and how is the role of the mother born, and how can we support this process? When and how is the role of the mother born, and how can we support this process?
Expecting parents would face themselves, their baby, their inner parents, the fantasies and fear of childbirth. The session will demonstrate the use of different action methods and psychodramatic techniques in pregnancy and childbirth. We will explore roles and experiences of the mother to investigate the changes of some of our roles and relationships.  

Topic: Pre-conference Day 3: Parallel Workshop # 3: EMBRACING THE 'ENEMY WITHIN": NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE ROOT CAUSES OF AUTOIMMUNE NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES THROUGH TELE'DRAMA; Mirjana Stankovic, MA, CTP-1 (Serbia)
Presenter: Mirjana Stankovic, Certified Teledrama Practitioner - Level 2 (Serbia)
Description: Configuration:
Mirjana Stankovic, MA, CTP-1, will be presenting on the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria. The experience will include everyone - the group, attending in Sofia, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

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: Pre-conference Day 3: Parallel Workshop # 4: LISTEN TO THE BODY: MIRRORING & DOUBLING; Angela Christoph, MA, CTP-2 (Germany)
Presenter: Description: Angela Christoph, MA, CTP-2 will be presenting from her home in Neu-Anspach/Germany, partnering with the Tele'Drama Team; including the participating group in Sofia; and the participants connecting individually from around the world.

Born in Austria, Angela was trained in the Moreno Institute Edenkoben/Überlingen, founded by Dr. Grete Leutz; and is a psychologist, psychodramatist and trainer for the Moreno Institute in Germany. She is on the Board of the German Psychodrama Association and is a Certified Tele'Drama Practitioner.

Mirroring and Doubling are important techniques available for the use of the director in psychodrama. In this workshop we will explore different forms of mirroring and doubling, experiment with them and tune in with each other.

Topic: Pre-conference Day 3: Plenary # 1: THE LISTENING HOUR: A WAY TO LESSEN STRESS AND BUILD CONNECTION; Jonathan Fox, DPhil (USA)
Presenter: Description: Jonathan Fox will be presenting from his home in New York. Partnering with the Tele'Drama Team, the presenter will create a hybrid experience, including the participating group in Sofia; and the participants connecting individually from around the world.

The pandemic has produced many innovations. Among them is the Listening Hour. It takes place in an hour among a small group under the direction of a guide. It champions tacit knowledge, the often unrecognized wisdom that comes from everyday experience, as well as dialogue that expresses itself through the stories. And the results are surprising.

Jonathan Fox is the author of Acts of Service: Spontaneity, Commitment, Tradition in the Nonscripted Theatre and Beyond Theatre: a playback theatre memoir; co-author of Personal Stories in Public Spaces: Essays in Playback Theatre by its founders; and the editor of The Essential Moreno: Writings on Spontaneity, Psychodrama and Group Method. He has degrees from Harvard University, Victoria University (NZ), and a D.Phil. h.c. from the University of Kassel (Germany). 

Topic: Pre-conference Day 3: Plenary # 2: SOCIAL WORK, SOCIOMETRY, AND PSYCHODRAMA: FROM INDIVIDUAL TO SOCIETAL HEALING (USA: Scott Giacomucci
Presenter: Description: This presentation will provide an introduction to the similarities between the field of social work and the practice of psychodrama and sociometry. Parallels in history, theory, philosophy, and practice with individuals, groups, and communities will be outlined. Psychodrama and sociometry offer social workers practical tools that are action-based and can be modified for any setting – individual work, group therapy, education, community organizing, and organizational leadership. Content will include emphasis on the themes of strengths-based approach and trauma-informed philosophy.

Topic: Pre-conference Day 4: Parallel Workshop # 1: THE UNKNOWN: Playback Theatre 'Perspektives'; Conductors: Ann Duchateau, MA, CTP-1 & Andrea Wilches, BS, CTT (International: Argentina, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal and the Netherlands)
Presenter: Description: Perspektives is an international playback theater company with a heart for people and a nose for the stories that build and deepen connection. Its creator, Ann Duchateau, assembled a diverse team consisting of eight very creative and enthusiastic people from Argentina, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal and the Netherlands. That creativity, enthusiasm and diversity are at the core of their quality to do this beautiful work. Perspektives offers performances, workshops and training using playback theater. Playback theater is a form of improvisational theater that generates dialogue and connection in an engaging and interactive way. Based on stories and experiences told by the audience, performers and musician create theater on the spot. Each experience is intuitively and artisticall; played back; in such a way that both the teller and the other audience members can relate to it. Perspektives does all this with utmost care and respect, with empathy and without judgment. Playback theater makes a valuable contribution to personal and professional development. It also creates dialogue and connection and accelerates changes within organisations and society.

Topic: Pre-conference Day 4: Parallel Workshop # 2: DE-STIGMATIZING CARE: UTILIZING ACTION METHODS WITH CHILDREN IN MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS AND CLINICAL SETTINGS; Monica Munoz, PsyD, CTP-1; Jordan Miller, MPH, LSW (USA)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Monica Munoz will be presenting from her office in Dallas, TX, USA; and Jordan Miller - from her office in PA, United States.

Partnering with the Tele'Drama Team, the presenters will create a hybrid experience, including the participating group in Sofia; and the participants connecting individually from around the world.

Presenters will discuss and provide clinical applications and implications for working with children in stigmatized populations.
 

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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: Pre-conference Day 4: Parallel Workshop # 3: SPEAKING THE VOICES OF OUR ANCESTORS; Leandra Perrotta Psy.D. (Norway) & Manuela Maciel (Portugal)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Leandra Perrotta Psy.D. will be presenting from her home in Oslo, Norway; and Manuela Maciel will be co-presenting from her home in Lisbon, Portugal. Partnering with the Tele'Drama Team, the presenters will create a hybrid experience, including the participating group in Sofia; and the participants connecting individually from around the world.

What determines loyalty to an ancestor we have never met? Transgenerational Psychodrama is a powerful means of clarifying patterns of invisible loyalty, and exploring how a person´s life script may be affected by their ancestors. We will decipher the transgenerational language of our ancestors by bringing them to life and giving them a voice, to break the cycles of painful repetition, and deal with unresolved legacies. This workshop is designed to give an opportunity for personal exploration and professional development.

Topic: Pre-conference Day 4: Parallel Workshop # 4: THE TRANSFORMATIVE WISDOM OF DREAMS: HEALING WORLDS AND CULTURES THROUGH JUNGIAN PSYCHODRAMA; Maurizio Gasseau (Italy); Nilüfer Demirhan (Türkiye)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Maurizio Gasseau will be presenting from his office in Torino, Italy; and Nilüfer Demirhan will be assisting from her home in Istanbul, Türkiye.

Partnering with the Tele'Drama Team, the presenters will create a hybrid experience, including the participating group in Sofia; and the participants connecting individually from around the world.


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: Pre-conference Day 4: Plenary # 1: GROUPS AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION; Heloisa Fleury (Brazil)
Presenter: Description: Sociodrama will be presented as a resource for working with groups in many contexts and diversified populations. The presentation will approach some concepts of neuroscience, group theory, and examples of sociodramas.

Topic: Pre-conference Day 4: Plenary # 2: LIVING WITH DIGNITY: TREATMENT AND CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA / ALZHEIMER'S (USA:
Presenters: Daniela Simmons, PhD, TEP (United States )
Betty Garrison, MS, CTP-2 ( United States)
Description: Configuration:
Dr. Daniela Simmons, TEP, will present from the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria; and Betty Garrison, MS, CTP-2 will present from her office in New York, United States.The experience will include the group, attending in Sofia, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

Topic: Pre-conference Day 5: Parallel Workshop # 1: ME, MY CHILD AND THE WORLD OF EMOTIONS: THE ROLE OF PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP IN NURTURING THE EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD; Maya Maria Koleva, CTP-3; Elena Petrova, MS, CTP-2 (Bulgaria)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Maya Maria Koleva, CTP-3; Elena Petrova, MS, CTP-2, will be presenting on the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria. The experience will include everyone - the group, attending in Sofia, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

The relationship between a child and a parent has a major influence on most aspects of a child's development. What is important is to improve yourself first to become a good enough parent. Let's work with some of the leading parental emotions. A hybrid form of workshop combines face-to-face classroom activities with zoom meeting to provide a unique experiential learning. Parents from different countries, with different cultures and social situations could work safely with their emotional and parental skills and feelings. Conference participants could join us in the role of parent or in the role of a child.

Topic: Pre-conference Day 5: Parallel Workshop # 2; EMPOWERING POST-TRAUMATIC PREGNANT WOMEN AND CAREGIVERS THROUGH GROUP PROCESSES; Turabi Yerli, MD; Reyhan Çakmak, MS (Türkiye)
Presenter: Description: This study aims to teach professionals who work with pregnant women and infants to provide psychosocial support and develop new coping skills through scientifically based group support interventions against human damage caused by traumatic events. In order for caregivers to provide 'enhancing care', they must feel safe, and be able to participate in social networks and be supported. After a traumatic event, such as an earthquake, there are many negative changes that affect daily life. Therefore, support needs to be increased. The effect of the hormones of the pregnant woman exposed to the traumatic experience has a negative effect on the health of the fetus. For this reason, providing and strengthening coping skills not only for caregivers but also for pregnant women will enable them to realize its future potential at the highest level by enabling them to establish more positive bonds and interact with their unborn child.

Topic: Pre-conference Day 5: Parallel Workshop # 3: CO-CREATING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR MARGINALIZED ROMA CHILDREN; Lăcătuș-Iakab Bela-Olimpiu, MSW (Romania); Eva Fahlstrom, LPC, TEP (Sweden)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Lăcătuș-Iakab Bela-Olimpiu, MSW (Romania);  Eva Fahlstrom, LPC, TEP (Sweden), will be presenting on the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria. The experience will include everyone - the group, attending in Sofia, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.



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: Pre-conference Day 5: Parallel Workshop # 4; THE THERAPEUTIC VALUE OF THEATER TECHNIQUES IN CRISIS SITUATIONS; Ofra Faiman, MA (Israel)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Ofra Faiman, MA (Israel), will be presenting on the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria
The experience will include everyone - the group, attending in Sofia, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

In this workshop the presenter will demonstrate how theater techniques can be employed to convert a crisis situation into an artwork with positive therapeutic results. The participants will withess an extract from a film of the play “Corona Hotel” that she produced at a residence for the elderly during the first Covid lockdown. The presenter shall then direct an experiential Drama session and exercises in which the participants will suggest a crisis situation on which they will improvise possible solutions.

 
Learning Objectives: 1. Demonstrate use of theater techniques in crisis situations.
2. Conversion of a crisis into a performing-arts form.
3. Emphasis that age is not a limiting factor.
 

Topic: Pre-conference Day 5: Plenary # 1: THE HOLLANDER CURVE: HOW PSYCHODRAMA WORKS?; Erica Hollander, PhD, TEP (USA)
Presenter: Description: Carl Hollander described the Hollander Curve many years ago. The Curve is a conceptualization of how structurally a classical psychodrama proceeds, and a great tool for training psychodramatists. This session will introduce the Curve, explain it, and illustrate some of its features in action.
Erica Hollander is Carl Hollander’s widow and has herself been doing psychodrama since the early 90s.  She practiced law for 33 years, then got a PhD in Human Communication Studies; and then taught at several colleges. Now she is retired and paints and writes poetry and dotes on her husband Tom and her dog Tabitha.
 
Carl E. Hollander, Ed. D., TEP, was an American psychodramatist who trained with J.L. Moreno at Beacon and then devoted his career to psychodrama.  He wrote a number of articles on psychodrama and trained many students.  His article on the Hollander curve came to serve as a training template at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Erica Hollander holds a J.D. and a Ph.D. and is a Trainer, Educator, Practitioner in Psychodrama, Sociometry, And Group Psychotherapy and a long-time supporter of Teledrama.  Erica Hollander is Carl Hollander’s widow and has herself been doing psychodrama since the early 90s.  She practiced law for 33 years, then got a PhD in Human Communication Studies; and then taught at several colleges. Now she is retired and paints and writes poetry and dotes on her husband Tom and her dog Tabitha. She has published in psychodrama and provided workshops and training online and face to face.  She is the head of the Denver Psychodrama Collective.
 

Topic: Pre-conference Day 5: Plenary # 2: SOCIAL JUSTICE MYSTICISM IN THE MORENO TRADITION: THE AUTONOMOUS HEALING CENTER PRACTICE AND DISCOVERING THE UNDERLYING STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY; Edward Schreiber, TEP (USA); Bojana Glusac, TEP, CTT (Serbia)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Edward Schreiber, TEP, will present from his home in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA; and Bojana Glusac, TEP, CTT from Serbia, will be on the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria. The experience will include everyone - the group, attending in Sofia, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

“Awakening the autonomous healing center, the power to heal oneself, is how I see the
value of psychodrama and all forms of therapy.” Zerka T Moreno

The genius, spontaneity and inspiration of J.L. Moreno and the systematic grounded
spirituality of his collaborator and wife Zerka T. Moreno, gave this world comprehensive
methods to address all dimensions of human existence. For individual development,
psychodrama was created; for group development, sociodrama was created; while
Sociatry addresses the underlying structure of our culture. What connects these to one
another? The answer is in mystic codes they embedded into their work to addresses a
core idea: There is always at least two of us at all times. If I am alone, there is me in
relationship to the field around me, that Zerka called the autonomous healing center and
J.L. called the godhead. This field is all around us, between us, and in us all at the
same time.

Moreno also discovered that in all organizations, groups and nations, there is an
underlying structure that exists that has a determining impact on all areas of social
reality. This discovery along with the autonomous healing center is what we call Social
Justice Mysticism.

In this Plenary presentation we will offer:
1. Deeper understanding of the Encounter Symbol as a presentation of First and
Second Universe dynamic, the psychology of Moreno.
2. Explanation of the underlying structure of society and social microscopy.
3. Review of 4 basic codes and practical implementation in awakening practice.
 

Topic: Conference Day # 1: Plenary # 1: SOCIOMETRY (International: The Tele'Drama Leadership Team)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Dr. Daniela Simmons and members of the Internationsl Tele'Drama Team will present from the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria; together with other members, who will be in their homes and offices around the world, for a wonderful and truly hybrit experience.

Topic: Conference Day # 1: Plenary # 2 TELE(PSYCHO)DRAMA IN THE FUSIONAL INTERREALITY; Daniela Simmons, PhD, TEP (USA)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Dr. Daniela Simmons and members of the Internationsl Tele'Drama Team will present from the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria; together with other members, who will be in their homes and offices around the world, for a wonderful and truly hybrit experience.

Topic: Conference Day # 1: Plenary # 3: EXPRESSIVE ARTS: A POWERFUL APPROACH TO EXPLORE THE NON-VERBAL REALM IN PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA; Hande Karakılıç, MD, CTT (Türkiye)
Presenter: Description: Art-mediated therapeutic approaches – either applied in individual or group settings - can provide a ritual space, a safe chamber where traumatic material which is inaccessible verbally, can be expressed, exposed and processed. Art can thus become a vessel for a journey of healing and transformation way beyond the limitations of the spoken word. In this workshop, the rationale of these art-based approaches will be explained, accompanied by case illustrations from real-life applications. A demonstrative interactive exercise will be performed with participants.

Topic: Conference Day # 1: Plenary # 4: PROFESSIONAL CHOICE: VOCATION OR DESTINY?; Rosa Cukier (Brazil)
Presenter: Description: PROFESSIONAL CHOICE: VOCATION OR DESTINY?
Rosa Cukier, Author, Emotional Survival: Childhood Pain Relived in the Drama of Adult Life

There is an inner child behind our adult selves, as a hidden part that influences many choices in our current lives.
Depending on how the relationships of primary dependency were lived, this hidden part can light up our adult life with spontaneity and creativity, or, on the contrary, if childhood life did not go exactly well, (with the presence of various abuses, domestic violence, etc.) condition impulsive, exaggerated, or powerless adult emotional reactions.
The work with the inner child of adults is an intrapsychic work, of the adult client with the defenses of his childhood life and, in my view, it is extremely potent as a therapeutic tool.

Using the professional role, how childhood life inspires and mobilizes actions and choices in adult life, especially the main choices, such as one’s professional life?

METHODOLOGY: Experiential techniques such as: internal psychodrama, body sculpting, maximization, supplementary reality, etc.

Topic: Conference Day # 1: Plenary # 5: TOOLS FOR DECOLONIZING SCHOOLS: SOCIOMETRY THROUGH RESTORATIVE PRACTICES; Miriam Zachariah, MA, TEP (USA)
Presenter: Description: Restorative practices is a set of sociometric tools centred around using circles to develop communities in schools inclusive of students, staff, families and community members. The intention is to make space for all voices and include every one in decision making as well as manage conflict in a way that moves from punishment towards the repairing of damaged relationships and the re-building of fractured communities. In three decades as a teacher and a school leader, Miriam Zachariah applied these techniques in classrooms and schools as well as training hundreds of professionals to apply these practices in their own contexts. In this workshop, we will explore how the use of these tools can empower student voice which in turn can drive decision-making, curriculum delivery and how natural consequences can be used in conjunction with restorative processes to deal with conflict, bullying and behaviour challenges. We use sociometry to connect to our own experiences of inclusion and exclusion in school. We will delve into the stories of particular students of colour who have been ostracized and excluded and how the use of these tools brought them back into the whole school community. Circles will be offered as a tool that can both mitigate harm as well as to proactively build community. We will look at how sociometric, democratic and restorative processes can re-integrate neuro-divergent students, particularly those that are racialized, into the classroom and improve their social and academic success. Finally, we will consider how allies support and challenge us as we seek to decolonize our own practice.

Topic: Conference Day # 1: Plenary # 6: SHARING THE JOURNEY: ACTION SOCIOMETRY FOR JUSTICE AND MUTUALITY; Leticia Nieto, PsyD, TEP (USA) | Mireya P. Ruiz Esparza, PhD (Mexico); Daniela Simmons, PhD, TEP (USA)
Presenter: Description: Dr. Leticia Nieto will direct from her home in Washington State, USA; together with Dr. Mireya P. Ruiz Esparza, who will be in Mexico City with an informal community of practice at Centro de Etica en Espiral; and Dr. Daniela Simmons, who will be on the large stage in Sofia, Bulgaria. The experience will include everyone - the group in Sofia, the group in Mexico, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

We will work across modes and locations to witness the blueprints of mutuality and justice that appear in our sociogram of transformative encounter.

Topic: Conference Day # 1: Plenary # 7: MORENO'S LEGACY: BRIDGING PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE WITH GENERATIONS OF PSYCHODRAMATISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD; Dena Baumgartner; Miriam Zachariah; Inara Erdmanis; Eva Fahlstrom; Monica Zuretti; Grete Leutz; Anath Garber; E
Presenter: Description: MORENO'S LEGACY:
BRIDGING PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE WITH GENERATIONS OF PSYCHODRAMATISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Well-known international psychodramatists, who were trained by Dr. J.L. and Zerka Moreno, will join the stage for an hour of recreating some of the most significant events in the history of psychodrama and sociometry. Some of them will be present on the stage at Sofia, Bulgaria; and others will be joining from their homes. They will tell the stories and will move the large group to multiple spontaneous dramatizations, encouraging everyone to join, imagine and experience the stories, brought into the here and now and made alive again. Spend an hour of time travel to help design our future with past knowledge of our psychodrama roots. 

 

Topic: Conference Day # 2: Plenary # 1: MENTAL FITNESS HURACT® for PERSONAL & ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A MULTIDIMENTIONAL VIRTUAL & HYBRID APPROACH; Roberto Bonanomi, PsyD (Italy / Switzerland)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Roberto Bonanomi will be presenting on the large stage in Sofia, Bulgaria; partnering with the Tele'Drama Team, including small groups in Switzerland and Italy; the large group in Sofia; and the participants connecting individually from around the world.

The Mental Fitness HURACT® is a proprietary theoretical model developed in years of clinical, organisational and academic experience. It is based on well-established third-generation psychological science such as ACT, Positive Psychology, Cognitive-Behavioural and Action Methods approaches.

It has been utilised internationally since its foundation, in 2013, as a best practice in organisational change management and psychological safety. More recently, it has been adopted in individual and group coaching. 
 
In particular, the use of Action Methods equips the model with the practical techniques that make it suitable for group-based, in-person, online and hybrid interventions.
 
The P.L.A.N. model allows for assessing the position of an individual in a specific context (work, sports, school, etc.) concerning the degree of well-being and awareness and provides the skills and the underlying exercise to develop psychological fitness.
 
The workshop will introduce the model using action and experiential methods, allowing participants to experience it and acquire the basics to practice it with their clients in a multidimensional, hybrid space.
 
 
 

Topic: Conference Day # 2: Plenary # 2; EXPLORING ARCHETYPES FROM INDIAN MYTHOLOGY THROUGH PSYCHODRAMA; Magdalene Jeyarathnam, MSW, PhDC, CP (India) with Groups in Chennai & Mumbai
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Magdalene Jeyarathnam, MSW, PhDC, CP (India) will be presenting on the large stage in Sofia, Bulgaria; connecting with groups of trainees in Chennai & Mumbai; and including them, the large group in Sofia; and the participants connecting individually from around the world for a truly amazing hybrid experience.

We will embark on a transformative journey through psychodrama, delving into the profound archetypes of Indian mythology and exploring the symbolic significance and transformative power of the universal patterns inherent in these ancient archetypes. Through psychodramatic enactments, we will awaken personal insights, healing, and growth.

 

Topic: Conference Day # 2: Plenary # 3: ADDRESSING THE PRIMARY DYAD ON THE STAGE: AN INTEGRATION OF PSYCHODRAMA AND TRANSFERENCE-FOCUSED PSYCHOTHERAPY; Nikolaos Takis, PhD (Greece)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Dr. Nikolaos Takis will be presenting on the large stage in Sofia, Bulgaria; partnering with the Tele'Drama Team, including small groups of students at The American College of Greece; the large group in Sofia; and the participants connecting individually from around the world. (Founded in 1875, The American College of Greece is the oldest American-accredited college in Europe and the largest private college in Greece).

The goal of this presentation is to present an attempt for integration of Transference Focused Psychotherapy and Psychodrama in the treatment of personality disorders. The basic tenets of Transference Focused Psychotherapy, through the lens of group therapy will be discussed. Although TFP initially was focused on the treatment of personality disorders, it has expanded lately to include the treatment of other psychopathological conditions (TFP-Extended, Caligor, Kernberg, Clarkin, Yeomans, 2018). According to this approach, the therapist is trying to detect and work through the “re-enactments” of relationships with significant others, and the accompanying affects, in the theatre of the therapeutic relationship, the transference and the countertransference. The aim is to investigate how these connections are repeated in the patient’s lives and to replace them with more healthy patterns of relatedness. However, the exploration of the old roles, their repetition and substitution with new progressive ones is one of the main therapeutic tools in psychodrama as well. The protagonist is often invited to represent on the stage the onset of an important relation of his life, in statu et situ nascendi, as J.L. Moreno, the founder of Psychodrama, was often suggesting. Psychodrama can contribute significantly to the in depth understanding of the creation of the patterns that have dominated one’s life and relationships.

Topic: Conference Day # 2: Plenary # 4: FROM DISABILITIES TO SUPERPOWERS; Bojana Glusac, TEP, CTT (Serbia); Andrea Wilches, BS, CTT (Colombia / Argentina); Samuel Yie, BA, BP3, CTP-2 (South Korea)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Bojana Glusac, TEP, CTT (Serbia), will present from the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria; Andrea Wilches, BS, CTT (Colombia / Argentina) will present from Kentucky, United States; Samuel Yie, BA, BP3, CTP-2 will present from South Korea. The presenters will create together a truly hybrid experience, including the group, attending in Sofia, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

Hybrid work with a heterogeneous group of participants with different types of disabilities?
How to design a hybrid 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: Conference Day # 2: Plenary # 5: TELE'DRAMA STORYTELLING: A CO-CREATION BETWEEN GENERATIONS; (International): Daniela Tahirova, MS, CTT; Children; The Tele'Drama 70+ of Age Group; Graduate Students from Texas Wesleyan University, USA
Presenter: Description: Once upon a time across various spaces... During the one-hour workshop, a group of children will meet psychodramatists who are their grandparents' age. Some of the children and some of the elderly will be on the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria; others will be in their homes in various countries around the world.  Together they will share, exchange thoughts and emotions to create a process of co-creating a story. The interaction between the youngest and the oldest, where the excitement to learn of the children will meet the wisdom and the love of the elderly, will be healing and heartwarming for all.  Presented by Daniela Tahirova, Children from Various Schools & the Tele'Drama 70+ of Age Emotional Support Group; with the participation of Dr. Violeta Kadieva, Ph.D., LMFT-S, AAMFT Approved Supervisor & a class of Graduate Students from Texas Wesleyan University, USA.

Topic: Conference Day # 2: Plenary # 6; PLAYBACK THEATRE IN THE HYBRID WORLD (USA
Presenter: Hannah Fox, MA, APTT (United States)
Description: In this session, Hannah Fox and her team will create a spontaneous Playback Theatre exchange between audience and actors connecting the virtual and in person worlds through stories. 

Topic: Conference Day # 2: Plenary # 7: INTERNATIONAL GALA (Co-Masters of the Ceremony:
Presenters: Samuel Yie, BA, BP3, CTP-2 (South Korea)
Andrea Wilches, BS, CTT (Colombia / Argentina )
Alexandrina Milcheva, MPsy, CTP-3 ( Bulgaria)
Ivaylo Georgiev (Bulgaria)
Description: 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!

Topic: Conference Day # 3: Parallel Workshop # 1: R-COMPASS, DIGITAL SOCIOMETRY - MAKING OBJECTIVE THE SUBJECTIVE WORLD OF RELATIONSHIPS; CARLOS A RAIMUNDO, MD; MELANIE RAIMUNDO, PSY (Australia)
Presenter: Description: Dr. Carlos Raimundo, MD will be presenting from his home in Kingscliff, Australia; and Melanie Raimundo will be co-presenting from her home in Sydney, Australia, partnering with the Tele'Drama Team; including the participating group in Sofia; and the participants connecting individually from around the world.

Imagine having a clearer understanding of what’s happening in your or your client's relational world. RCompass, a digital sociometry app, maps and analyses, based on algorithms, hidden social relationships. A practical tool for individual, family, teams and corporate work. It measures the Tele (acceptance and rejections) and roles at play in a given Social Atom (a small relational unit, e.g. family)  It provides a Relationship Capital Index (RCi), a helpful tool for relational strategy and implementation. www.RCompass.Life  Moreno’s sociometry transformed the way of mapping and measuring social relationships. Relationships are the source of our greatest joys and suffering, but elusive and hard to have a grip on what’s happening in the system. This is because we relate based on our subjective perceptions of interpersonal dynamics. RCompass is a digital sociometry app to map that makes the objective the subjective world of relationships by mapping and measuring social interactions. It uses the power of algorithms that provide a Relationship Capital Index (RCi) that assists in assessing the state of a relationship, and the level of risk of the system, enabling the creation and implementation of a strategic relational plan. RCompass is an innovative app that makes evident the hidden relationship dynamics of a Social Atom, a small relational system. It clarifies Tele, the levels of acceptance or rejection between people; the roles played in each relationship and the identification of personal characteristics of each one in the system. It provides analytical data that can be saved in PDF and shared among everyone involved. A useful tool for counsellors and coaches and relationship or social research.RComass is an easy-to-apply tool for individuals, groups, families, businesses and corporate relationships. It helps to depict the social atoms of a person’s life, e.g., at birth, childhood, adolescence etc., providing relevant information on the origin of certain behaviours, role models, and why people respond in certain ways to life circumstances. And project what type of relational system I desire for the future. One technique in RCompass has the ability to be used by EMDR practitioners. Participants will be able to use the app free for three months.For more info www.RCompass.Life Presenters Dr Carlos A. Raimundo is an Argentinian psychiatrist, psychotherapist and researcher in insight and behavioural communication. He lives in Australia. He’s an adjunct research fellow at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He is the creator of the Play of Life, for which he received the IAPP Innovator Award in 2002, and RCompass, a digital sociometry app.Melanie Raimundo is a counsellor and head trainer-supervisor of Play of Life and director of Active Learning International, the umbrella organisation of Play of Life and RCompass

Topic: Conference Day # 3: Parallel Workshop # 2; THE TREASURES HYBRID MESSAGE: A JAPANESE DRAMA METHOD OF REFLECTING A STORY ABOUT ONE'S BELONGINGS; Presenter: Ichiro（Okkady Okajima, MA, CTP-2 with a group of trainees in Japan
Presenter: Description: Configuration:Ichiro（Okkady）Okajima will present from his office at Saga, Japan, where he will be joined by a group of his trainees.The experience will include everyone - the group in Sofia, the group in Japan, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

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. This time, we would like to demonstrate and maybe play the “Treasure’s Message” which reflects on our stories we have with these "treasures" and listen to the messages from them. 
This method was found in Japan and mainly applied in educational settings. The presenter would like to develop this method in a Hybrid situation and connect people in Bulgaria, Japan and joining from their homes around the world.We will discuss ideas on how to implement it in international or hybrid situations.

EquipmentIf you join online, it would be better to bring some scarves and other props.
The conference organizers will provide props at the venue.


 
Learning Objectives: After attending this workshop participants will be able to:

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

Topic: Conference Day # 3: Parallel Workshop # 3: ANALYTIC AUTOGENETIC TRAINING WITH GUIDED VISUALIZATION (A.A.T.G.V.); Domenico Agresta, Psy (Italy)
Presenter: Description: The Analytic Autogenetic Training with Guided Visualizations (A.A.T.G.V.) is a technique with an analytic and psychosomatic approach. It is inspired by Sapir Analytic Relaxation and by Schultz Autogenetic Training, but it is more directive and it is proposed in a relational way.

Method
The A.A.T.G.V consists in 5 basic exercises (weight, heat, heart, breath, warm belly) and are proposed with directive and repeated instructions. The exercises have a psychophysiological function and they are aimed at the attenuation of the symptom and the lowering of anxiety levels. Guided views deal more with the cathartic-symbolic, psychological and relational aspects. At the end, all the participants of the group can report their experience. This is very helpful especially for people afflicted by alexithymia, because they become more aware of their feelings and emotions.

Time
Exercises: 3- 4 minutes each
Guided View: 10 minutes
Report: 3 minutes for each participant

Applications
This technique is applicable both in the individual and group settings.
We already applied this technique with different group: psychosomatic clients, people afflicted by anxiety, pregnant women.
Learning Objectives:

• Promote the psychosomatic unity through a renewed contact between the real body and the thought
• processes (cognitive, relational and metacognitive);
• Allow the development of symbolism and the memory of dreams;
• Reduce Alexithymia;
• Reduce somatizations;
• Facilitate the processes of mentalization and the gradual creation of imaginary.

Topic: Conference Day # 3: Parallel Workshop # 4: APPLYING BASIC TOOLS FOR ACTION METHODS IN THE HYBRID SPACE FOR BEGINNERS (South Korea:
Presenter: Samuel Yie, BA, BP3, CTP-2 (South Korea)
Description: When we participate in hybrid conferences and workshops where fancy cameras, microphones, and technological tools are used, while we might enjoy the experience, yet we sometimes think to ourselves that we would never actually be able to apply it to our practices since we lack the skills and tools. However, using only our smartphones and laptop, we could also fully incorporate both clients in the online space and in the physical space into the hybrid space.  Through this workshop, participants would experience and explore what it feels to only use basic tools for hybrid works, and experiment which aspects each person can take with them to their own practices.  
Learning Objectives: 1. Familiarize using Zoom on our smartphones and experience what it would feel like to be a client in a hybrid space. 
2. Experience and experiment with action methods that are simplified to work for a hybrid group that includes people in the online space and physical space. 

Topic: Conference Day # 3: Parallel Workshop # 5: SEVEN (7) KEYS TO FACILITATE GROUP PROCESS; Chantal Nève-Hanquet, TEP & Agathe Crespel, CFIP, ITI (Belgium) & their training groups in Belgium, Switzerland and France
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Chantal Nève-Hanquet, TEP & Agathe Crespel, CFIP, ITI will direct from their training center CFIP www.cfip.be located in Brussels, Belgium, where they will gather a group of their trainees from Belgium, Switzerland and France. The experience will include everyone - the group in Sofia, the group in Belgium, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

The process as a lever for creativity, healing and coconstruction in working teams
 
This experiential workshop will invite participants to create a strong process where each one has an equal place and the group
becomes more than the addition of each participants.Key 1: How am I going to work with the Here & Now?Key 2: How can I create a safe frame and context?Key 3: How will I stimulate cohesion?Key 4: What can I do to strengthen participants' sense of personal competence?Key 5: How will I take account of what remains unspoken?Key 6: How will I enable the group to see a single situation from different angles?Key 7: How can I remain on a (re)searching path?

Topic: Conference Day # 3: Parallel Workshop # 6: PROTAGONIST-CENTERED SOCIODRAMA - AUSTRALIAN/UK MODEL; Diane Adderley, ST, APTT (United Kingdom)
Presenter: Description: In this model of protagonist-centred sociodrama, which may particularly be useful in organisational settings, we are interested in how the individual story is embedded in the systems that surround it. We will start from an individual issue, preferably work-based, then widen it out to ownership by the group through setting out the system(s) it emanates from, to gain clarity and insight through exploring the surrounding organisational, educational, political or community circumstances which surround and may uphold the specific situation. This will be an experiential workshop.
 
Learning Objectives: 1. Identify how this model may differ from both psychosociodrama and sociopsychodrama as practised widely in Europe and South America;
2. Learn how an individual story can be explored from a contextual and systemic perspective, without necessarily having to delve deeply into the individual's psyche.

Topic: Conference Day # 3: Parallel Workshop # 7: COUPLES PARTS PARTY: VIRGINIA SATIR'S INTERGENERATIONAL MODEL OF FAMILY THERAPY; Inara Erdmanis, TEP (Latvia / Sweden)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Inara Erdmanis, TEP (Latvia / Sweden), will be presenting on the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria
The experience will include everyone - the group, attending in Sofia, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

Family therapist Virginia Satir (1916-1988) is considered a founder and leading catalyst in the evolution of experiential family therapies. Satir’s method revolved around two core elements—family life chronology, in which she sought to understand the developmental patterns of relationships in the family as a basis for change; and family reconstruction, in which she attempted to guide families through a process of engaging positive change using experiential interventions from guided fantasy, guided contemplation, hypnosis, psychodrama, family sculpting, parts parties, and role playing (Gross, 1994; Satir, 1988; Winter and Parker, 1991). One of Satir’s chief concerns was communication within families. Satir utilized experiential techniques that allowed families to explore, acknowledge, and modify their own communication patterns in-session. Satir viewed poor communication as a perpetuator of unhealthy relationships, and she championed more open and congruent communication between and within individuals as a key to increasing awareness, compassion, and connection in families and society (Satir, 1983). Seeking to enhance an individual's autonomy and self-worth, as well as enriching the marital relationship, Satir designed the Couples Parts Party. By attempting to surface the valued, alienated, extruded and unknown aspects of each partner, and assisting them in reclaiming and utilizing their diverse parts, this therapeutic intervention provides a potent catalyst for change. The Parts Parly offers practitioners a diversified approach for enhancing the marital relationship. We tend to think in one piece and that restricts us. There is a side we try to hide or are ashamed of. Most of us don’t want to show that we also might be mean, greedy, childish, judgmental.... But we have many sides even if we try to suppress some parts. We have numerous parts (roles) , some active, some passive, some not yet known to us. This workshop will focus on the process to identify, transform, and integrate inner resources according to Virginia Satir’s method.

Topic: Conference Day # 3: Parallel Workshop # 8; THE “MAGIC SHOP” TECHNIQUE FOR PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION, Eva Fahlstrom, LPC, TEP (Sweden)
Presenter: Description: Configuration:
Eva Fahlstrom, LPC, TEP, will be presenting on the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria
The experience will include everyone - the group, attending in Sofia, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

The Magic Shop is not like any other shop you have ever visited! It is a vibrant shop where the customers can come and buy a quality they need in order to tranform old patterns and get a better life.

The Magic Shop gives you a humerous experience and opportunity to reflect upon your lifepatterns and the roles you have taken on or have been assigned and to give you a new chance for a personal transformation and the opportunity to add on new qualities and to give up nonfunctional ones (or to limit them).

OPENING THE SHOP: The shopowner presents the shop and how it differs from other shops. Here we sell invisible but very important gods.

DEFINING WHAT THE CUSTOMER WANTS TO BUY: Someone might need to buy ”courage” Shopowner asks: “What kind of courage do you need?” Displays some of the different courages that are for sale that day in the shop.”For what do you need the courage?”

Question: Is what the customer wants to buy the same as what the customer needs? The Shopowner will guide the customer.

DEFINING THE AMOUNT WANTED: “How much courage do you need?” the shopowner might ask. ”One kilo!” – ”Oh, are you sure you really need a whole kilo?” – The shopowner will describe the consequences of having too much courage – it might become very dangerous! The negotiating will go back and forth until the costumer is satisfied.

AGREEMENT OF PURCHASE: Repeating exactly what quality and amount of that quality the customer is demanding to buy.

PAYMENT: The Magic Shop does not deal with money! It is a shop for buying and selling qualities. What quality is the buyer willing (or reluctantly willing) to pay with? “Pride?” “Shame?” The shopowner will try to help the customer to find a quality whch might bup till now, have blocked the benefits of the quality they want to buy. (The group can help). Perhaps the costumer will want to pay with ”shame” – but how much shame. – What will happen if you have sold out all the shame you have?

SHARING: the group shares their own feelings and reflections.
 
Keywords: Magic Shop,character traits, roles, negotiations, inner and outer lifetransformations

Eva Fahlström Borg
Swedish senior consultant, licenced psychotherapist, university qualified supervisor and teacher of psychotherapy, systemic therapy and Lacanian psychodynamic therapy. Works internationally as a teacher, trainer and supervisor of Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, Sociodrama, Group processes, Restorative Practicies and Restorative Justice. Teaches Conflict Transformations.
Email address: eva.fahlstrom.borg@gmail.com

Topic: Conference Day # 3: Parallel Workshop # 9: HYBRID EXPERIENCES OF PSYCHODRAMA & SOCIODRAMA IN EDUCATION; Tanja L. Lee, PhD, CTP-2 (USA); Margarida Belchior, PhD, CTP-2 (Portugal), Irina Vandova, MS, CTP-1 (Bulgaria)
Presenter: Description:

Topic: Conference Day # 3: Parallel Workshop # 10: CREATING CONSCIOUSLY CONNECTED COUPLES IN THE VIRTUAL SPACE; Pamela Goffman, LCSW, TEP (USA)
Presenter: Description: How do you manage high energy conflict online? Experiential tools from Psychodrama, Art Therapy, and Imago Dialogue will be taught to help clinicians stay focused on deepening each partner’s awareness of what they consciously and unconsciously bring to the relationship dynamic. Sustaining relational change can only occur when both partners are able to own their wounded beliefs from childhood. Moreno reminds us that the Self is defined by the Roles. Healing happens when couples learn to recognize their own and their partner’s wounded beliefs.

Topic: Conference Day # 3: Parallel Workshop # 11: PSYCHODRAMA AND THE JUSTICE SYSTEM; David Moran, LCSW, TEP (USA)
Presenter: Description: This training will introduce the use of psychodrama in 3 aspects of The American justice system
Healing Criminal Justice, A Journey to Restore Community in Our Courts. “Problem Solving
Courts” mental health, family disputes as well as Drug Court was devised to return justice to the
community in that the empathy for defender and victim is served through the process.
With Psychodrama participants may act out real-life scenarios related to their drug use, such as
a conflict with a family member or a relapse trigger. Through these role-playing exercises,
participants can gain insight into their behavior and learn new ways to manage their emotions
and cravings.

Overall, the use of psychodrama in drug court can help participants gain a deeper
understanding of their addiction, develop new coping skills, and ultimately increase their
chances of successful recovery.

Psychodrama Trail Lawyers College
Gerry Spence Method Offering Personal Psychodrama for each of the Lawyer students then
utilizing tools to review defendants case vs prosecutor/ plaintiff. Established after Gerry Spence
did a personal Psychodrama, he built a dormitory on his ranch to house 60 plus lawyer students
and 20 plus instructors with 3 or 4 psychodramatist offering personal psychodrama’s for each
of the students

Crisis Intervention Training
Established through St Elizabeth’s Psychodrama staff, a grant through the National Institute of
Mental Health with Police in 1989 to help with officer injury and murder due to domestic
violence. Role Play and Sociodrama is used to train police in mental health and drug and alcohol
treatment protocols and crisis intervention procedure.
After a brief didactic a psychodrama, sociodrama or vignettes will be used to demonstrate
psychodramas use in Justice.

Topic: Conference Day # 3: Parallel Workshop # 12: A SYSTEMIC EXPLORATION OF THE SUPERVISOR / SUPERVISEE RELATIONSHIP; Ron Wiener, PhD (United Kingdom)
Presenter: Description: How come this supervisor and supervisee ended up in this working relationship?

In this sociodrama session we will explore the background to the key protagonists and then see the other social roles that are influencing the story. The idea of the workshop is to raise awareness of all the external factors that come into play during a supervision or mentoring session.

Topic: Conference Day # 3: Parallel Workshop # 13: DIRECTING CLASSICAL PSYCHODRAMA ON DREAMWORK AS A HYBRID EXPERIENCE; Daniela Simmons, PhD, TEP (USA)
Presenter: Description: Description: Configuration:
Dr. Daniela Simmons, PhD, TEP, will be presenting on the stage in Sofia, Bulgaria
The experience will include everyone - the group, attending in Sofia, and all of the participants, joining individually from various locations around the world.

The workshop will demonstrate a classical framework based on J.L.Moreno’s research and publications and action explorations of the modality. In psychodrama, the action account is offered as an alternative to the verbal account; the action techniques enable the clients to understand their dreams by themselves, instead of being analyzed and interpreted by the therapist. The director will demonstrate a Tele'Drama hybrid configuration and a methodology for including everyone who is attending - those at the conference center, and those connecting from their homes around the world, for an equally powerful experience. 

J.L.Moreno. (1951). Fragments from the Psychodrama of a dream". Group Psychotherapy. 3:344-365
J.L.Moreno. (1964a). New Moreno Legends. Group Psychotherapy, 17, p.12
J.L.Moreno, (1965). Therapeutic vehicles and the concept of surplus reality. Group Psychotherapy, p. 212-213 
Zerka T. Moreno, Leif Dag Blomkvist, Thomas Rutzel, (2014). Psychodrama, Surplus Reality and the Art of Healing 

Topic: Conference Day # 3: Parallel Workshop # 14: ALL PARTS ARE WELCOME! INTEGRATING PSYCHODRAMA AND INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS THERAPY; Adena Bank Lees, LCSW, CP (USA)
Presenter: Description: According to Dr. Richard Schwartz, developer of the Internal Family Systems Therapy Model, we all have parts of ourselves and a “Self” with a capital S. These all function as a system. He purports that Self energy is innate and the field in which the healing of wounded parts occur. It is made up of 8 positive qualities that start with the letter C.( 8 C’s of Self Leadership) Reigniting spontaneity naturally follows, opening the realm of possibilities for healthier coping strategies.
Psychodrama brings the Self, parts, and system to life through techniques like concretization and role reversal, thereby sparking spontaneity and creativity, which are the fundamental elements of healing, health, and change.
Clients often report fighting with, and/or attempting to “get rid of” the parts of themselves that cause pain and negative consequences. Acting out in addictive behaviors, other forms of self harm, flooding of feelings and memories, are examples of such. Fostering a relationship with these parts is an essential element in healing and recovery.


Topic: Conference Day # 3: Parallel Workshop # 15: THE PLACE OF HEALING WITH THE CREATORS OF THE BIBLIODRAMA METHOD: Presenters: Susan & Peter Pitzele, PhD (USA)
Presenter: Description:

Topic: Conference Day # 3: Parallel Workshop # 16: USE OF THE PSYCHODRAMA SCENARIO MODEL, "Theater ohne Zuschauer", AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR ONLINE SOCIO-PSYCHODRAMATIC WORK (Argentina / Mexico:
Presenters: Monica Zuretti, MD (Argentina)
Débora de Penna, PhD (Argentina)
Fernan Cetran, PhD (Argentina)
Lucía Aranda Kilian, MS, PhDc (Mexico )
Description: Theater ohne Zuschauer (theatre without an audience, later called open stage)
 
Title: Use of the psychodrama scenario model, Theater ohne Zuschauer, as an instrument for online sociopsychodramatic work. 
 
Facilitators: PhD. Monica Zuretti, PhD. Debora Moghilevsky Penna, M.A. Lucía Aranda Kilian, & B.A. Fernán Rodríguez Cetrán. 
As an already great innovator, in 1923 Jacob L. Moreno proposed several theaters, the best known being the one in Beacon, New York and some he did not get to build or work on. 
He created a novel theater for its time, Theater ohne Zuschauer, where the scenes of a protagonist or a group can be displayed in different spaces, to be able to access the content of each one in a spatial/temporal way. A space of different matrices. One hundred years later the creation of this design that Moreno could not build at the time, turns out to be a model that can be incorporated into the virtual space to intervene creatively in the Psychological Space * using the Psychodramatic Method.
 
Objective: The aim of this workshop is to show participants how to use the psychodrama stage, Theater ohne Zuschauer, the first instrument of psychodrama (Moreno, 1972), in the virtual space.  Also, to enter the scenes brought from the memory of the protagonist, where it will be possible to intervene socio-psychodramatically and generate a change.
 
Description of Psychodramatic Scenario:
- It is the physical and/or virtual space where the psychodramatic action takes place. 
- The psychodramatic action is the extended reality – supplementary (surplus reality) of the protagonist. In Psychodrama, a scene is the psychodramatic action and occurs in a space determined by consensus: The Psychodramatic stage.  This space is where the protagonist will develop their scene and their story, the alternative reality, the augmented reality.The protagonist reconstructs scenes that they have stored in their memory, the psychodramatic action with its expanded reality allows the protagonist to modify this memory, rescue forgotten moments and introduce new healing elements to their memory. 
 
Bibliographic reference: Debora Moghilevsky Debora – Thesis: “Use of space in the psychodrama scenario in Argentina”. Theater ohne Zuschauer: in German, original by Moreno. Theater without Spectators.