Uses outside of therapy

[Connie Miller]

Crystal and others,
 I so agree with you about deepening ones spirituality. 
The question today is-How can we create more spiritually intelligent leadership? We all have the collective responsibility of continuing the works of our creator to become all that we can be and not be limited by the cultural conserves of society. How can pscyhodrama be used outside of therapy?
 In these times of crisis, more spirituality is needed as well as faith in the human element. "SQ, our spiritual intelligence quotient, underpins IQ and EQ. Spiritual intelligence is ability to access higher meanings, values, abiding purposes, and unconscious aspects of the self and to embed these meanings, values, and purposes in living a richer and more creative life.Signs of high SQ include an ability to think out of the box, humility, and an access to energies that come from something beyond the ego, beyond just me and my day-to-day concerns. SQ is the ultimate intelligence of the visionaryleader. It was the intelligence that guided men and women like Churchill, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mother Teresa. The secret of their leadership was their ability to inspire people, to give them a sense of something worth struggling for." (Zohar, 2005)
 Souldrama as an outgrowth of psychodrama is important because it helps one to deepen ones spirituality by giving psychodrama structure. It seems to be one of the first methods to give pscyhodrma structure therefore helping one to deepen ones spirituality. As John Rowan, who I have been communicating with, says , psychodrama  "touches the transpersonal but not in any structured way".
Souldrama is structured into three levels of development passing from the rational through the emotional through the spiritual level of intelligences.Each level has two stages or veils to pass through.The stages are sequential and each time a person completes all six they remain in a level of integration and transformation until they repeat the stages all over again. Psychodramatically based, it is intended to be used as multi disciplinary training system that combines the mind, body and spirit to create a therapeutic energy within a group process to foster spontaneity and creativity. Souldrama allows the soul to become a co-creator in a person's life and this is the soul's mission to co create.Psychodrama makes the expansion of reality possible by methods not used in life.Souldrama takes this one step further by providing a circular model and structure to integrate through all three intelligencesto align the ego and soul. It is a co creation with psychodrama.

It is strange that in my own community of psychodramatists, this process has been often disregarded and looked upon as "new agey" and supported so little except by a few other psychodramatsits. When I do a training in Souldrama, I invite all of you to take the opportunity to attend. If you want to hand out my flyers, I will send some to you and I will be happy to have the attendees come back from your area to you to get the training they need in psychodrama.

Recently this process has been written up in the attached flyer, New Advances in Therapy, June 2007 Published by Routledge as one of the first international efforts to combine the new advances in therapy and the Korean Journal of Group Psychotherapy June 2007 as well as the International Journal of Action methods. Winter 2000. My book Souldrama: A journey into the heart of God has been published in Brazil and America. I have just comopleted two interviews in Brazil about psychodrama and souldrama.
You may want to review any of these articles. This is a perfect time for east to meet west as I was just invited to Indonesia to present Souldrama to all the universities and all pastors in Indonesia in Aug 2009. 
Blessings, Connie Miller TEP,NCC,LPC





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