Tag: Psychodrama

Nov/Dec 2019: Psychodrama Singapore Happenings

Time has flown by this year and we hope it’s been a year of discovery and enlightenment for you – but if it hasn’t, no worries!

We’ve lined up some great events for you to close off 2019 with a skip in your step!

Personal Growth Group: Rising Above II (5 Weeks)

Our Personal Growth Groups will use psychodrama which employs a combination of experiential methods – sociometry, role theory, and group dynamics – to facilitate insight, personal growth, spontaneity, self-discovery, and integration of the mind, body and emotions.

Experience the fun and spontaneity of working together in a group of individuals from all walks of life. Participants will be given the opportunity to explore their own Psychodrama in this group within the 5 sessions.

Places are limited to 8 individuals for this group with 5 consecutive weekly sessions starting 22 November 2019, every Friday from 7.00pm to 9.30pm.

Schedule*:
– 22 November 2019
– 29 November 2019
– 6 December 2019
– 13 December 2019
– 20 December 2019
*subject to change

Standard: SG $250.00

*Open Sessions are a prerequisite for first-timers intending to join Personal Growth Groups.

Register here:
https://psychodramasingapore.org/event/personal-growth-group-rising-above-ii-5-weeks/

6th Asia Pacific Behavioural and Addiction Medicine Conference (APBAM) 2019: Experiential Training with Sharmini Winslow

Curious about experiential techniques and learning to use it in group therapy, counselling, training and so on? 

In conjuction with the 6th Asia Pacific Behavioural and Addiction Medicine Conference (APBAM) 2019, join experienced psychodramatist, Sharmini Winslow, as she facilitates a workshop geared towards training those in group therapy, counselling and training roles.

This workshop will equip you to engage your group members in activities that will promote spontaneity and deeper sharing; that goes beyond talk therapy. Participants will learn how to warm their groups up and to facilitate lively role playing and group participation.

28 November 2019
8.00am – 5.00pm

More information here:
https://www.apbam.com/

We look forward to see you at these exciting events so that you can make 2019 your best year yet!

Role Reversal

This poem quoted by JL Moreno is an illustration of the concept of role reversal in Psychodrama.

When someone steps forward and says ‘yes’ to being spontaneous and thereby to being creative, they are open to the possibilities of changing perspectives.

As I’ve directed Psychodramas over the years, I have come to see the Psychodrama Stage as a laboratory where the protagonist experiments with different possibilities and outcomes. Relationships are explored and as role reversal takes place, the protagonist gets to experience the Other and the psyche of the Other that lives in them.

We all have a version of our Mother, our Father, our sibling, our enemy that lives in us. This version when brought on the stage gets concretized (or made concrete/ real) by the use of another group member who takes on the role as an Auxillary. As the protagonist reverses roles and takes on the role of the Other, he or she can then take on the posture, speech style and warm up to being that Other person. Their version emerges and the encounter with the Auxillary playing them takes place. They then reverse roles and the Auxillary (as the Other) will repeat what has been said and the protagonist experiences a dialogue with the Other. This goes on with several role reversals until the Protagonist’s purpose has been achieved with the Director.

This experiencing of a different perspective engages empathy and deepens understanding of the Other. Moreno called this the Encounter.

The poem quoted is from his seminal book “Who Shall Survive”.