2nd INTERNATIONAL TELE'DRAMA CONFERENCE

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Daniela Simmons, PhD, TEP Creator of Tele’Drama Founder and CEO of the International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI). Daniela Simmons, PhD, TEP, is international trainer & supervisor, the creator of the Tele'Drama method and the founder and director of the International Tele'Drama Institute (ITI) which has already welcomed thousands of people, from 71 countries. She is the current President of the American Society in Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP). Daniela Simmons', professional experience, both in Europe and the US, is in educational, research, and consultancy work in the social sciences and mental health. She received training on the psychoanalysis of group relations in organizations at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, headquartered in London. She has been utilizing action methods sessions since 1995 in Europe and since 2005 in the US.

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 Filipe De Moura Dynamic Theatre World Association International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Board of Directors & Faculty. Filipe De Moura is a musician and artist who believes art is one of the best ways to positively transform humanity and the world. He, along with Mark Wentworth, created Dynamic Theatre (Incognito Auxiliary) and has been working with expressive arts for more than 15 years. Part of which also includes working with Colour Psycodynamics as well developing his own approach to music therapy. He studied Classical Singing at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. On stage, he premiered the world renowned musical “The Phantom of the Opera” in Portugal, in the role of Raoul, in 2019.

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Andrea Wilches International Tele'Drama Institute (ITI) Board of Directors & Faculty Psicodrama Grupal Pavlovsky institute. Identidad Recovery Center. Andrea Wilches, born in Colombia, currently living in Argentina, is psychologist, psychotherapist, psychodramatist, actor, psychodrama trainer, International Tele'Drama Institute (ITI) member of the Board of Directors & Faculty. Trainer at Psicodrama Grupal Pavlovsky Institute; Identidad Recovery Center. Trained as a psychodramatist, by Dr. Mónica Zuretti, and by Dr. Eduardo "tato" Pavlovsky and Maria Carolina Pavlovsky in Dramatic Multiplications psychodrama. Andrea she has a certification in mindfulness by the University Favaloro in Argentina; a certification in disability as a social and political category by the University of Buenos Aires; and is also a Kabbalah student. Currently she works with psychodrama groups in the treatment and recovery of addiction and as an one on one therapist.
 

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Tanja L. Lee, PhD, International Tele’Drama Institute Team Member & Faculty So Cal Drama Therapy Institute, APA, IAGP, Listening Hour (LH) Community, & SAG-AFTRA/EQUITY. Tanja L. Lee, Ph.D. is an online drama therapy facilitator, MS in Educational Leadership adjunct professor, Listening Hour Guide, SAG-AFTRA/EQUITY performer, and credentialed multiple subject educator. She has over 15-years of experience utilizing her knowledge of the arts, psychology, and education as a means for providing individual and community engagement, personal and social development, and mental health wellness. She has worked with children, teens, and adults from diverse cultural, linguistic, socioeconomic, and ethnic populations.

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Hande Karakılıç Üçer, MD Dr. Abdülkadir Özbek Psychodrama Institute International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Board of Directors & Faculty FEPTO, IAGP, ASGPP. Dr. Hande Karakılıç Üçer, is a Psychiatrist in clinical private practice, providing medical treatment and psychotherapy in Turkish, English and French. Ass. Psychodrama Trainer at Dr. Abdülkadir Özbek Psychodrama Institute in Ankara, Turkey; also Expressive Arts Therapist. Presently trainer at TELE’DRAMA. She worked with refugees with IOM, UNHCR; coordinated various disaster psycho-social interventions. Worked for the Turkish Security Forces. Is doing organizational work for Embassies, EU Delegation etc. in Ankara, Turkey. Ex-Secretary General (2017-2020) of the International Society for Health and Human Rights (ISHHR); member of International Association of Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP) and its Trauma Task Force; member of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP) and its Trauma Task Force; member of the Federation of Psychodrama Training Organizations (FEPTO) Peace Building and Conflict Transformation Task Force.

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Phil Armour LPC Master's Marriage & Family Therapy International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Team Member & Faculty. Phil Armour, M.MFT, LPC & LMFT, has forged a private practice counseling office in Longview, Texas for over 22 years. He has attended numerous workshops on creativity in therapy, art therapy, drama therapy, psychotherapy and Bibliodrama. In 2013, he attended an intensive 4-day training on Applied Theatre and Spiritual Formation at Fuller Theological Seminary. Since November 2019, he has presented multiple workshops on Bibliodrama and Family Therapy.

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Mark Wentworth (United Kingdom) Global Colour Ambassador Colour for Life; ASGPP Executive Council; Chair of the ASGPP International Committee International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Board of Directors & Faculty. Mark has been studying and working with colour for more than 30 years. He is the creator of the Colour PsychoDynamics® method, integrating colour therapy with the archetypal worlds of Carl Jung and the psychodramatic worlds of Jacob Moreno. Mark is the author of Add a Little Colour to Your Life, which is available in 7 languages. He teaches internationally as well as being a guest on many radio and tv shows around the world.

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Bojana Glusac Draslar, Psychotherapist, Trainer, Supervisor, Educator International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Psychodrama Institute Belgrade European Association for Psychotherapy. Bojana graduated in Special Education and Rehabilitation at Belgrade University. Upon fulfillment of required conditions in qualifications, experience and expertise, she received the ECP (European Certificate for Psychotherapy), and the title of educator in psychotherapy and supervisor. Her work is focused on Individual and group psychotherapy clients within a private clinic that she founded 1999., developing a new psychotherapeutic approach TP (Transpersonal Psychodrama), wellbeing programs, stress management and self-care, international leadership assessment, executive coaching, leadership development and teambuilding. She has written 3 books on Mindfulness and Wellbeing, as well as articles on psychotherapy and other people's development approaches. 

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Daniela Tahirova, MEd, MPsy Therapeutic Center "Vitae" International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Representative Certified Tele’Drama Practitioner. Daniela Tahirova has a master's degree in pedagogy, speech therapy and psychology. Psychodrama Therapist, Director of Psychodrama with Children, Family Therapist. She is conducting therapy groups for children - according to the method of A.Aachinger and W.Hall and for adults under the supervision of Dr. Daniela Simmons. Daniela Tahirova is the director of the "Psychodrama and Action Methods in Education" program, which is certified by the Ministry of Education and Science at the Adler Institute-Bulgaria. Founder and part of the board of the Balkan Association of Psychodrama, Sociodrama and Active Methods. She trains, practices and teaches Teledrama in Bulgaria. Co-leader in the Bulgarian groups of Dr. Daniela Simmons.

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Tihomira Stanojevic, University of Novi Sad faculty of philosophy, department psychology, MA degree. Certifies Tele'Drama Practitioner, Level 1. Formal & non/formal dedicated researcher & listener in the field of human souls and bodies, all our circles and spirals. Introdused to psychodrama in 2009 and since then in love with it. Female warrior and healer, observer and facilitator.

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Leticia Nieto, PsyD, LMFT, TEP Author, Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone International Tele'Drama Institute (ITI) Faculty. Leticia Nieto is a psychotherapist and educator specializing in cross-cultural communication, motivation and creativity. Her 2010 book, Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone, is an accessible analysis of the dynamics of oppression and supremacy that offers readers ways to develop skills to promote social justice. Leticia brings an innovative approach to her training and facilitation, drawing on expressive techniques to involve participants deeply and create opportunities for insight and change. Since 1980 she has successfully brought her skills to higher education and other learning communities, to service providers in helping agencies, to workplace teams, and to many community groups. In addition to her degrees in clinical psychology and human development, she is skilled in Action Methods, including Playback Theater and Theater of the Oppressed.

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David Moran, CADC, LCSW, TEP Owner, “I Like Me Now”, therapeutic practice and social work license supervisor. David Moran CADC, LCSW, TEP: Sr Admin Director of Crozer Health D&A Recovery Programs, with 25 years in Behavioral Health. Proprietor of “I like Me Now” private practice Media PA Past President ASGPP. Dave has been an innovator and leader in Addiction Recovery integrating Co-occurring disorders perspective in behavioral health settings. He has been a member of the Crisis Integration Treatment (CIT) training officers in Behavioral health protocols and resources for 12 years. An ASGPP member. An EMDR practitioner and trauma specialist. Dave has supervised clinicians towards CADC, LCSW and LPC license as well as PAT and TEP process.

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Samuel Marcus Egber, Certified Tele'Drama Practitioner (CTP Level 1) International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI). Samuel Marcus Egber, aka Sammy within the Tele'Drama community, is a Level 1 Certified Practitioner of Tele'Drama. His professional career started at the age of 15 as an actor in the entertainment industry. With a life-long interest in utilizing the performing arts, especially the application of improvisation, to inspire self and universal awareness and healing, during the COVID-19 pandemic he began his training process in Drama Therapy and Psychodrama. His passion is blending his love for performing, philosophy, film, and a desire to help repair and improve the world make for unique Tele'Drama workshop experiences.

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Pam Dudley, MSW, LCSW-S, LCSW-C, CBT Fellow and Diplomat of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy; ASGPP; Songwriters Association of Washington, Lyndon Grove Play Development Collective Tele'Drama Practitioner Training International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI). Pam Dudley, MSW, LCSW-S, LCSW-C, is a Diplomat of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and the owner of My Write Mind, PLLC where she conducts virtual psychotherapy sessions, corporate diversity trainings, and healing circles. At the age of six, she directed her first drama with her father offering a standing ovation from the kitchen window. Her stage play, "Breakfast," about school integration in rural Texas, was a semifinalist in the 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She hopes to debut her Christmas Musical this year. Pam is currently a student of Tele'Drama and Psychodrama with Dr. Daniela Simmons.

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Alexandrina Milcheva is a clinical psychologist and a psychodrama therapist. She works therapeutically with children, adolescents and adults. Alexandrina also consults parents and has experience as a school psychologist and children with special needs. In her practice she works a lot with problems connected to anxiety, panic attacks, difficult attachment, etc. Alexandrina works individually or in groups using all kinds of tools through psychodrama, visualizations and psychodynamic approach. 
 

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Ichiro (Okkady) Okajima, M.A., Nishikyushu University Certified Tele’Drama Practitioner (CTP – Level 1). Ichiro Okajima, known by most as Okkady, is a professor of psychology for Nishikyushu University, Saga prefecture, Japan. He first met psychodrama when he was a freshman of Chiba university, and was attracted by the mental enrichment and camaraderie that psychodrama brings. As a result, he researched warm-ups of psychodrama at Kyushu University's graduate school and earned a master's degree in educational psychology. Last year, Okkady joined the TELE'DRAMA team in search of a new method of psychodrama in response to COVID-19. The 14-hour time difference and foreign language are challenges for him, but he is once again experiencing the warmth of people and personal growth. Last year, he moved to a new house next to the park, and now enjoys views of the park while having meals with his wife or watching NFL games on TV.

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Monica Munoz, PsyD, LP, LSSP, NCSP, HSP CCTS-I.Dr. Monica Munoz is a Licensed Psychologist and Licensed Specialist in School Psychology. She has been studying Psychodrama for 3 years and is passionate about utilizing experiential methods to bring healing to the populations she works with. Monica works with children and families in Dallas Independent School District as well as runs a private practice, where she works with ethnically diverse populations with high levels of trauma and poverty. 

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Betty G Garrison, MA, MS, CMHC ASGPP, NADTA, APA, APT Certified Tele’Drama Practitioner (CTP, Level 1) International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI). Betty G Garrison is a psychotherapist who has been studying and practicing Psychodrama for over 10 years. Though not native to technology, Betty has become involved in Tele’Drama during the pandemic and is enjoying her first year of training in this unique modality that can be shared internationally; she is excited about the endless possibilities, of which Moreno foretold. Betty has earned three Master’s Degrees: Theatre Ed/Drama Therapy, Film/Social Reform, and Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She has over 30 years of experience using theatre arts and film to engage, inspire, educate, and heal children, adolescents, and adults.

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Cristina Schmidt, Transgenerational Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, Sociodramatist Associate Professor, Bucharest University International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) ASGPP, IAGP, ARPSIC. Associate Professor in Bucharest University, Founder Member of International Center for Psychogenealogy. He focuses his activity on transgenerational topics. He has delivered many workshops internationally: Asia, Europe and North Africa.

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Gudrun Koch is organisational psychologist and works as Management Trainer in the area of leadership, communication, conflict solving and team development for customers in various industries (automotive, pharma, power supply). She lives in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and woks as Coach for School Professionals for the Hessian Ministry of Culture. She is psychodramatist and on the board of the German Psychodrama Association. She initiated the DFP ZoomLAB´s for the German psychodrama community in Mars 2020 with Claudia Bracht, Susanne Alpers and encouraged the community to enter the World of Zoom for psychodrama together with co-creativity, curiosity and reflection. In autumn she graduates Tele´Drama CP Level 1.
 

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John Edmonson, MS, LPC-S CEO, Life Works Foundation Director of Wellness at Healing Springs Ranch Addiction Treatment Center. John’s passion is to find the cross intersection between science, the arts, and mental health to help all people recover and reach their potential. John lives this passion as the Director of Wellness at Healing Springs Ranch, an internationally recognized treatment center, by implementing evidence-based practices, such as Mindfulness, and experiential therapy. John continues his work as CEO of Life Works Foundation educating communities and business, and as a guest expert on national radio and TV. He presents for first responders, school districts, on Tactical Mindfulness, resiliency, and stress reduction. He’s also a Reiki Master, Yoga, Tai Chi-Chi Gong, Instructor.

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Magdalene Jeyarathnam, MSW, PhDC, CP, Psychodrama Trainer Board member IAGP, member ASGPP, Co-founder, Expressive arts therapy association of India, founding member Indian academy of professional supervisors. Magdalene Jeyarathnam is an expressive arts therapist and a board certified Psychodramatist working with individuals, couples and groups including family groups in India. Magdalene has more than 25 years of experience in working with addiction, HIV/AIDS and mental health issues, she has worked with several state and central government agencies in India, She has also worked with UNICEF and WHO as consultant on projects. She is the founder of East West Center for Counselling which is an Expressive arts therapy center providing therapy services to schools, universities and organisations; She also founded the Indian Institute of psychodrama which is the first psychodrama training institute in India. She is the Co- Chair for the Health and well-being vertical for Indian Women’s Network (IWN) – Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Tamil Nadu chapter for 2020 – 2021. She is currently pursuing her doctoral study.

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Angela Christoph, M.A. German Psychodrama Association International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI). Angela Christoph, MA, was born in Vienna/Austria und currently lives in Germany. She was trained in the Moreno Institute Edenkoben/Überlingen which was founded by Dr. Grete Leutz in 1975. Angela is a psychologist, psychodramatist and trainer for the Moreno Institute in Germany. She is on the board of the German Psychodrama Association and works as Supervisor/Coach and trainer. Her special interests are exploring strategies for coping with stress, resilience and resources using psychodramatic methods.

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Pembegül İlter, Psychologist, Assistant Psychodramatist International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Certified Tele’Drama Practitioner Level One. Pembegül İlter, psychologist and psychodrama co-therapist, has been helping families, children and individuals of all ages overcome relational, behavioral and emotional conflicts since 2008. She is working with parents, children, adolescents and adults conducted individual sessions and supportive group work focused on social skills, self-expression, attention development, creativity and art work. Specializing in family and relationship conflicts counseling, child and adolescent behavior, learning disorders, ADHD. During the pandemic period, she continues her individual sessions with adults, group work on psychological flexibility and resilience, workshops and psycho-educational seminars online. She continues her training as a Certified Tele’Drama Practitioner.

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Margarida Belchior, PhD, Researcher, Sociodramatist Lusófona University - Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Education and Development.

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Ekaterina Tyurina, Psychotherapist, Psychiatrist. Ekaterina earned her medical degree in Samara, Russia in 2005 and worked there as a psychiatrist and clinical pharmacologist. In 2009, she was offered the opportunity to work within an private addiction clinic in Belgrade, Serbia. She has learned the language, became part of the community and became certified psychodrama psychotherapist at Institute for Psychodrama, Belgrade. Now she has moved to Canada for post-graduate studies. She is working in private practice, providing psychotherapy in English, Serbian and Russian.
Ekaterina Tyurina, Psychotherapist, Psychiatrist. Ekaterina earned her medical degree in Samara, Russia in 2005 and worked there as a psychiatrist and clinical pharmacologist. In 2009, she was offered the opportunity to work within an private addiction clinic in Belgrade, Serbia. She has learned the language, became part of the community and became certified psychodrama psychotherapist at Institute for Psychodrama, Belgrade. Now she has moved to Canada for post-graduate studies. She is working in private practice, providing psychotherapy in English, Serbian and Russian.

 

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Violeta Azis, Clinical psychologist, Psychotherapist Certified Tele’Drama Practitioner (Level 1). Violeta is a clinical psychologist and psychodrama therapist, currently working in Lozenets hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria and in private practice. She has more than ten years of experience in working with patients with chronic and acute somatic illness, transplantations and cardiovascular surgeries. Violeta has worked with psychodrama groups for five years and conducts individual consulting and psychotherapy of adolescents and adults.

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Osta Iwobi, M. Arch. International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Training. Osta Iwobi, M. Arch. was born in Nigeria and both lived and studied in various European countries where he graduated as an architect. He then studied at the Colorado Technical University, where he graduated with a Computer Science and Engineering degree. Osta speaks multiple languages. He lives in Dallas, TX, United States, where he works as an architect. Osta has always been interested in psychology and five years ago he started training at the Expressive Therapies Training Institute (ETTi) with director Daniela Simmons, PhD, TEP. Osta has been actively participating in the local psychodrama community and co-presenting at regional psychodrama communities.

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Ann Duchateau, M.A. in Anthropology Certified Psychodramatist International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Team Members & Faculty Certified Tele’Drama Practitioner (CTP Level 1) (Belgium) has been utilizing action methods and applied theatre since 2006 as important tools to help people and groups discover, share and use their wisdom. She's convinced playfulness is the best way to help people navigate through life with agility on the way to happiness and freedom. That is why she’s now also training professionals in applied theatre and action methods. She is skilled in Action Methods, including Psychodrama, Playback Theatre and Theatre of the Oppressed. She uses these three techniques in groups for personal growth as well as in individual therapy. https://lifeonstage.org and https://perspektives.eu