[IAGP:PSYCHODRAMA] Open sessions
thana ag
anathga at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 2 21:29:52 CDT 2008
Open sessions were offered at Moreno Institute in NYC,on Park Avenue and later at 78th street /Broadway,currently a Comedy Club, and every Rri evening at the Moreno iNstitute in Beacon,NY..
These sessions were open to anyone for a very low fee,with different directors on different nights. With time some had a following, "regulars". But mostly people from the street, or groups of students from colleges,These had to be organized into a group.
Moreno himself ran some of these open sessions. He had a small consultation room there too.
The Moreno Institute in Beacon. offered open session every Friday night. It gave students in training an opportunity experience. PD with total strangers,and the The audience had a pick of trained auxiliaries. During my training most of these were directed by Zerka.
It is wonderful that the stage that was moved from Beacon continues this tradition.
I was directing these open sessions in NYC for almost years . As a very young person it was an incredible opportunity
to hone my directorial skill,as well as come and enjoy other Directors"
work,It became a home away from home for us.
I especially fondly remember Hanna Weiner's thursday sessions that were very popular: her dog Chadwick was a very important auxiliary.
He was the father of my dog ,Piki, a gift from Hannah, who continued in that tradition.
anath garber
From: hvpi at hvc.rr.com
To: adam at blatner.com; wbaile at mdanderson.org
Subject: Re: [IAGP:PSYCHODRAMA] Open sessions
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:40:05 -0400
CC: list at grouptalkweb.org; iagp-psychodrama at yahoogroups.com; manuelamaciel at sapo.pt
Open sessions mean that it is not a closed
group, such as an ongoing therapy group or a training group. It is OPEN to
anyone. The Hudson Valley Chapter of the ASGPP has been offering monthly open
sessions as a way of introducing the method to many people. It is widely
advertised. Community members, graduate students, undergrads, local therapists
and psychodrama students all attend. I understand that Moreno himself used to
offer weekly open sessions in NYC and in Beacon. Open to
all....
Rebecca Walters
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Subject: Re: [IAGP:PSYCHODRAMA] Open
sessions
Some of us do not know what 'open sessions' entail..could someone
enlighten?
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[IAGP:PSYCHODRAMA]
Open sessions
Re: Sociodrama open evenings?Hello, all. The question of
open psychodrama
is interesting, as there have been some people who have
expressed some
wariness about the wisdom or ethics involved. Do people
attending know
what they're getting into? What are the cautions that
directors should
know about or be expected to maintain. What is properly
not the
responsibility of the director?
In the olden days of the 1940s
through the 1970s, people were viewed as
somewhat more rational and
capable of making their own boundaries. This is
ironic, because during
that era, in medical circles, they were also
patronized---not given
full information if it was thought they "couldn't
handle it"---such as
being told they had a likely fatal illness. After the
1970s things
changed. The feminist movement brought forward themes that
others had
noted---the power of authority to subtly silence protest being
one that is
most relevant. It's as if the bar shifted upward. Medical
research found
that people who gave technically informed consent were
found not to have
really understood the paper they were signing. People
who were being
explained things often nodded and said they understood but
if tested later
only absorbed a fraction of what a patient physician may
have said, and
not infrequently got things backward. So when is informed
consent "really"
informed?
The encounter groups of the 1970s were often irresponsibly
conducted, with
a baseline expectation that folks were responsible for
their own needs and
mental health. Within this setting, leaders allowed
for confrontations and
scapegoating that led to psychological casualties.
Even in ordinary yoga and fitness classes, people are led to do what
the
leader instructs, even though it may stress out certain tendons or
joints
and lead to physical problems. Learning how to "listen to your
body" and
resist the instructions that may work for others takes a bit of
practice.
Nevertheless, a variety of centers have operated open
sessions, from
Moreno's work in the 1940s through the 1970s (continued by
many of the
leading training directors and Zerka during Moreno's decline
and after his
passing); and at other institutes. Let's get more feedback
about who
conducts such sessions.
Did anyone do this for a while
but then stop and if so, why?
I have past correspondence about this, as
it's been addressed on and off
for many years. I think Jacob Gershoni was
going to write up his
experiences, but he seems to have gotten busy. I'm
not personally
experienced enough in leading such events that I'd be
willing to be a
first author, but I may help a little in sharing what I've
heard and my
thoughts. It would make a good symposium but mainly it does
need to be
integrated and eventually written about!
The theme of
psychodrama versus sociodrama open sessions adds another
dimension to it,
for as sociodrama the contract shifts a bit to the less
personal-- there's
less of an implied contract that's therapy-like--- (not
that such a
contract ever actually existed, but there are nuances in
phenomena).
here it shades into Boal's work and similar efforts like Theatre of the
Oppressed and Rainbow of Desire.
Let's see if this probe hits
anyone who wants to pick it up and run with
it. Warmly, Adam
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Original Message -----
From: Peter Parkinson
To: Peter Howie ; Group
Talk
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: Sociodrama open
evenings?
Hi Peter
History wise, starting 1980 there was a regular
one in Thames New Zealand,
a small rural community (8000 people) an hour
from Auckland. It was a
weekly occasion, government funded that I ran
together with Sally Christie
for 13 years, and it was continues by John
Barton (now in Melbourne) and
Noel Borst for a further few years after I
left the area. Chris Mourant
and I (and later Cushla Clark who took my
place, ran a Monday evening
group for several years in Auckland also on a
weekly basis. What open
psychodrama will be happening in Auckland from now
on is currently being
discussed.
As you know, Peter, I am keen to
see open psychodrama be available in each
and every centre in the world,
and perhaps on the same day of each week or
month, so that, when
traveling, we can meet one another through the open
psychodrama session
and have the method available as we travel.
Cheers
Peter
Parkinson
Aoteoroa New Zealand
On 20/06/08 6:31 PM, "Peter Howie"
<peterhowie at macquariehouse.com.au>
wrote:
HI fellows,
A quick question - I know many places run
regular psychodrama open
evenings - does any one run regular sociodrama
open evenings?
We ran our first the other night and had a great
response.
Cheers for now
Peter
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