history psychodrama

[Adam Blatner]

Oh, yeah, Linda. Your anecdote hinted at your having your students actually get into role, 
imagine what it was like for the different people involved, for Moreno, for one of the 
refugees, etc. -- 
        Might you consider writing up this story in greater detail? It might make a nice 
anecdote for the journal when it gets re-constituted.

      It mixes two issues: Dramatizing a historical event so that the emotions and 
perspectives of those involved, the predicaments and cultural milieu, all could be made 
more vivid in the minds of the students; (i'd like to see history in general taught this 
way in the schools.) Teaching the history of psychodrama this way. Adding a few 
sociodramatic elements (doubling, role shifts, etc.) to further deepen the learning.

Warmly, Adam


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Ciotola" <vegmom at closecall.com>
To: <list at grouptalkweb.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 10:28 AM
Subject: RE: List Digest, Vol 22, Issue 15 honoring the elders


> Hello : I was at the conference and the lunch meeting in which the topic of
> honoring the elders arose. I shared that I had just done a lesson on History
> in the training  group which I co-lead with Cathy Nugent and Joe Kenna  -
> and that the participants at first groaned about the topic. After the
> experiential learning and a sociodrama based on Mittendorf, the participants
> were in their words, "blown away" .I mentioned at the lunch meeting  that
> Cathy and I plan to put in a proposal for the 2009 conference to hold a full
> day pre-conference to share this . I hope it will add to the ways in which
> we are honoring the elders and also moving our work onward and outward.
> Thanks to all of you who are contributing to the process. Linda Ciotola