sigla fepto EDITORIAL: INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION NEVE SHALOM PRESENTATION PROVISORY MINUTES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY NEW MEMBERS OF THE FEPTO COUNCIL REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEES ANNUAL MEETING PREPARATION AND CONFERENCE SUMMARY JERUSALEM VOICES/TABLE OF VALUES OSLO INVITATION PSYCHODRAMA ON THE EUROPEEAN STAGE CHILD VILLAGE PSYCHODRAMA PROJECT TRAINING IN HUMANISTIC PSYCHODRAMA NEW PSYCHODRAMA BOOKS HORA.IU NIL ALBINI AND GABRIELA MOITA INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION Our last FEPTO meeting was in the inclusive and inspiring village of Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom (Peace Oasis), Jerusalem, Israel, under the theme “Psychodrama as a Cross Cultural Practice”. In this peaceful oasis site we can read “There is no way to peace, Peace is the way”. Best place to make such a statement, under the cooperation between Jews and Palestinians, an oasis opening again a space for our community, where all ideas can meet and challenge themselves, on a stage where cooperation is no longer an oasis. A place to be a model of organization and a symbol that possibility is the limit at any time. We begin with the process of inclusion/exclusion, one of the main topics of our last meeting. Starting under the flags of Israel and Jerusalem, where the white of peace was bridging the blue and the red and the green and the black. Where the feeling of inclusion/exclusion was less present then in a country still protected by walls, were you feel welcomed by so many warm people and still live the tension and therefore understand at some moments the difficulty of day to day life; then in cities like Jerusalem, where you feel the inclusion of such melting pot of cultural diversity, of Arabs, Jews and Christians living and sharing the inclusion of centuries of history with modern life along with the exclusion - the closed city of Armenians, the barrier between the women and men wishing maybe the same thing in front of the Western Wall. And than we experienced the inclusion/exclusion in our own community: the inclusion and exclusion of new members, with sometimes a painful procedure of voting, the exclusion of old members of the Council with the inclusion of not only new members, but new committees too - the Development Committee! – the inclusion of the conference in the program and members of the conference feeling excluded by some of us, not participating but at the opening and closure. All sitting at the same table but closely looking, sometimes not. A topic for the next meeting, or one to be forgotten in the following months? The FEPTO Annual Meeting was linked to the FEPTO Conference “Psychodrama- Encounter and Dialogue”, attended by 125 participants. You have Rosa’s report in this Newsletter that will enlighten about how fruitful it was in both professional and personal roles. This year we had elections and the new elected Council want to greet each of you and thank you for the trust. We are confident that your confidence will be rewarded. As the Council’s main task we want to continue the work that has been done and to improve the Committee work taking into account the growth and the development of our Organization. By this we hope to enliven the communication between all members in order to achieve even more participation in FEPTO decisions and activities. Connected with our aim we want you to know that we made some changes in the Council organization: the previously named Annual Meeting Committee has now enlarged in aims and became FEPTO Development Committee. We thank Norbert Apter, the chair of this newborn committee, for this upgrade. The more developed an organization is the less we can live without rules and from the rules application the inclusion and exclusion is an outcome theme. Beyond the rules there is the sociometric process of choice and, as psychodramatists, we know very well that in a chosen criteria the dialectic between inclusion and exclusion is always present. Impossible to give up the liberty of choice right and from that we have the inevitable balance between inclusion and exclusion, and the dance from one side to the other, as the gestaltic process of the figure and ground. We hope that improving the communication and the active participation of members we can reduce the drama of human emotions: that dance between inclusion and exclusion. The rules can, of course, be changed when they do not make any more sense. But to change the rules has also a rule in order to include the previous decision by the GA members. We want to thank the joyful and big hearted LOC team - Rosa, Iafi, Tamara, Einya, Yehudit, Yaacov and Oded - for their commitment, their inspiration and hard work done. And share the feeling of security and peace they gave us. Next meeting is already being prepared by our colleagues from the Norwegian Institute for Expressive Arts and Communication and Norwegian Moreno Institute for 10th to 14th June 2012, in Oslo, under the title “The Creative Saving Lie – The Balance between Denial and Truth”. We thank Eduardo Verd., Melinda Meyer and Arne Husjord on behalf of all the LOC and wish joy in the work. Hope to see you all there. horatiu.albini@live.com gabriela.moita@mail.telepac.pt NEVE SHALOM PRESENTATION Doar Na Shimshon, 99761 Israel, Tel: 02 9915621, Fax: 02 9911072, info@nswas.info, http://nswas.org THE COMMUNITY Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom (WAS-NS) is a village in Israel of Jews and Palestinian Arabs of Israeli citizenship. Situated equidistant from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Jaffa, WAS-NS was founded in the early 1970s on land originally leased from the adjacent Latrun Monastery. By 2010, some 60 families had come to live in the village, with an equal number of Jews and Arabs. Eventually the village will include about 140 homes. The members of WAS-NS are demonstrating the possibility of coexistence between Jews and Palestinians by developing a community based on mutual acceptance, respect and cooperation. Democratically governed and owned by its members, the community is not affiliated with any political party or movement. WAS-NS gives practical expression to its vision through various branches: BILINGUAL, BINATIONAL SCHOOLING The idea of creating an educational framework that would express Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom’s ideals of coexistence and equality was born together with the community's first children. The idea took shape in the form of a binational nursery, quickly followed by a kindergarten and a primary school. After several years of operation, these were opened also to children from outside the village. Today the school system extends from nursery to junior high school levels and enrolls more than 250 children, 90% of which come from surrounding Arab and Jewish communities. Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom’s educational system was the first Jewish-Palestinian bilingual children’s educational program in the country. Its unique educational approach begins in the nursery and kindergarten. The Jewish and Palestinian teachers each speak exclusively in their own languages to all of the children. 57.jpg From an early age, the children begin to develop an awareness of their identity, culture and traditions. There is an atmosphere of openness and tolerance that encourages the children to understand, accept and appreciate each other. The educational system is governed by the following prin- ciples: • Equal participation by Jews and Palestinians in the administration and teaching. • Providing a natural ongoing framework that enables the day-to-day meeting between children of the two peoples. • Use of both Hebrew and Arabic in teaching all of the children. • Nurturing each child's identity by imparting knowledge of his/her culture and tradition while inculcating respectful familiarity with the culture and tradition of the other people. One of the goals of the WAS-NS educational system has been to establish this form of education as a viable model for emulation, particularly in cities or regions where there is a binational population. We believe that providing children with an educational environment which promotes understanding between the two peoples is an essential step on the road to a stable peace. In recent years we have been encouraged to see the development of further bilingual schools in Israel inspired by our early efforts. primary.school@nswas.org. http://nswas.org/school/ THE SCHOOL FOR PEACE The School for Peace (SFP) was established in 1979 for the purpose of conducting outreach educational work. The SFP assimilates the principles upon which the Community was founded by engaging in encounter work between Arabs and Jews. This work is informed by the vision of a humane, egalitarian and just society. The goal of the encounters is to develop the awareness of the participants towards the conflict and their role in it, as well as to enable them to explore and evolve their identity through interaction with the other. The School for Peace conducts the following programs: Encounter workshops on the conflict for Jewish and Palestinian youth in Israel. 1. Encounter workshops, in-service training and seminars for adult groups, including teachers, journalists, lawyers, social workers and university students. 2. Encounter work between citizens of Israel and Palestine together with Palestinian NGOs. 3. Facilitator training courses. 4. Yearly graduates' courses in cooperation with four Israeli universities. 5. Courses for empowerment of Arab and Jewish women. 6. Training courses (in its working methods) for persons from abroad. 7. Encounters for raising awareness towards intergroup conflicts within Arab and Jewish society. The above programs are directed and facilitated by a joint Jewish-Palestinian staff. The facilitators have an academic background in social and behavioral sciences and are specially trained to work with conflict groups. During many years of experience, including intensive action-research, the School has developed an educational approach that places an emphasis on elements such as power relations and the exploration of ethnic and national identities. Some 45,000 young people have attended SFP encounters. More than three hundred adults have received training in conflict management skills, many of whom are now active in other organizations for social change. The SFP has established a research center for documentation and research on work conducted by the SFP and other organizations dealing with Jewish – Arab encounter, as well as the study of Jewish-Arab relations in general. In the future the SFP plans to establish a program for graduate studies in conflict and peace studies that will be conducted on-site. The school has won local and international recognition for its achievements, including prestigious awards and prizes. Publications describing its special working methods are now available in Arabic, Hebrew and English. sfp@nswas.info. http://www.sfpeace.org. DOUMIA-SAKINAH The Pluralistic Spiritual Centre in memory of Bruno Hussar A framework for encounter activities, study and reflection, based on the values of equality, justice and reconciliation. The Centre's activities draw inspiration from the resources and spiritual traditions of the Middle East and the world at large. Programs focus on open inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue and the advancement of peace. The Pluralistic Spiritual Centre is set apart on a pleasant corner of the hilltop and comprises the House of Silence (Bet Doumia /Bet as-Sakinah), for reflection and meditation (opened in the 1980s); and the Meeting, Prayer and Study House (opened 2006). Besides conducting its own events program, the Centre invites other groups to hire its facilities for activities of a compatible nature. The Pluralistic Spiritual Centre was established at the initiative of WAS-NS founders Bruno Hussar and Anne Le Meignen. doumia-sakinah@nswas.org http://doumia-sakinah.nswas.org CELIA SCANLAN FEPTO XVII GENERAL ASSEMBLY WEDNESDAY MARCH 30th 2011, NEVE SHALOM/ISRAEL PART I 1. Opening of the General Assembly – Chair: Horatiu Nil Albini. 2. Appointment of the facilitator – Anna Chesner with Inci Doganer as helper and secretary – Celia Scanlan. 3. Appointment of 2 members to check the minutes – Melinda Myer & Susanne Kunz. 4. Establishment of the quorum – explained by Anna and confirmed by Chantal Neve-Hanquet. The quorum is 34; 7 accrediting organizations; 4 founding members; 35 training organisation; total = 46. 5. Appointment of the vote counters – Sabine Kern, Mariolina Rakstyte, and Gabriele Stiegler. 6. Approval of the Jerusalem General Assembly agenda – approved with the changes proposed by Horatiu. 7. Approval of the Kovacica General Assembly minutes – approved. 8. Committees Chairs reports. Chairs are invited to present for 2 minutes, then the membership were invited to discuss with their neighbour for 5 minutes and then the questions took 15 minutes. Since all the reports had been published, only a small flavour of the report is given to the assembly. 8.1 Training Committee – Zoran Djuric 8.2 Research Committee – Gabriela Moita 8.3 Ethics Committee – Arsaluys Kayir 8.4 European Affairs Committee – Celia Scanlan 8.5 Annual Meeting Committee – Agnes Dudler 8.6 Network Committee – Yaacov Naor 8.7 FN and Website Committee – Horatiu Nil Albini 8.8 Membership Committee – Dana Dragoteneau 9. Feedback from membership – more active programme of research, membership let us see the quality of the applications. European Journal proposal. How many members have been in the Training Committee in the last year? (only Zoran who has worked with the Council). Suggestion to go one committee at a time, when questionnaires / communications are sent out, they should have a confirmation of acceptance. Research proposal: one representative in each country. (Gabriela thanked this proposal). Ethics proposal: to collect the ethics of training organisations. Do we have guidelines for practitioner - yes. There is no way to manage complaints within FEPTO as a student. (Arsa has never had a complaint in her 5 years of chair, she would like to have a complaint to begin to work actively, Arsa said that more work is being done on codes). Network: will the doors open on the network groups (Yaacov reminded that there is a new group forming, it is maybe possible to still join. The Matrix Group has been closed, but tomorrow they will discuss this issue. Is there a budget to start planning for the next meeting? Can we always know 2 years in advance. (Agnes said that there is not currently a pot to be handed over but this might well change since the LOC’s are working much more independently than before. Membership can there be clearer guidelines for recommendation. How many are in membership and how do we check applications). Believes min training standards are not clear of both quantity and quality. Dana believes we do need to give guidelines for recommendations. FN & web – links to other institutes; Do we have a publisher for the journal; Web each trainer could have a space to write something about self and areas of expertise. (We have links which include organisational members, more can be added; no initiative beyond the idea to do this, plan is to have an e- journal. Horatiu agreed it was possible to open the space on the web however he cautioned that it is important that the web is simple to use and not so full of information that it is difficult to navigate This will be further discussed in the committee. Judith suggested that she could give information about ideas they had already started; Horatiu thanked Pierre Neve for the thousands of photographs he has made for FEPTO). Maurizio was given 3 minutes to talk about IAGP. New psychodrama discussion group details to be found on FEPTO. PART II 10. Report of the Executive Council – Jutta F.rst & Horatiu Nil Albini. 10.1 Chair person’s report – Clarified the reason for the three year term and talked of the positive experience of the shared presidency. Much work has been undertaken electronically. 10.2 Treasurer’s report. The financial report is available in each delegate pack. Chantal responded to any questions. 11. Auditors report / Approval of the accountancy – was published in FN accepted by membership. 12. Discharge of the Executive Council – accepted unanimously. 13. Budget 2011 approval. Chantal explained the budget. Question: should individual groups apply to the Chair of Network or Treasurer? Chair of Network. Judith raised the question had we not agreed to contribute to pay off his debts of Moreno at Bad V.slau. Michael Wieser clarified that Moreno’s brother paid this debt. Maurizio asked for the budget to be increased to €2000 for the network. Chantal said that this is possible. It is the task of the next council but Jutta proposed to ask the membership now what they think. Show of hands in principal. 1 abstention. Budget carried. 14. By law proposal 14.1 Jorge Burmeister – brought a proposal to change the membership application requirements, moving to erase the 1st paragraph from the formal procedure of application for FEPTO membership, in order not to be compulsory to be a guest in the AM one year before the voting procedure. Following discussion. Jorge was convinced that the current system works and withdrew his proposal. 14.2 The Council proposed a change to the requirements for membership: 14.2.1 An Institute must have at least 2 permanent staff trainers responsible for the training process. Carried: 1 against, 2 abstentions 14.2.2 An Institute must have at least one ongoing group with at least 6 members. Carried: 1 against, 4 abstentions. PART III 15. Voting for new members 15.1. Helsinki Psychodrama Institute: no questions, yes 75, abstention 0, no 0; membership carried. 15.2. Ecole Fran.aise de Psychodrame: an issue was raised as to whether or not this was a new institute, it was agreed that the graduates from the old institute could count; yes 48; no 26; abstentions 2, spoiled papers 2; membership carried. 15.3. ISI – Institute for Social Interaction: no questions, yes 70, abstention 5, no 3, spoiled papers 1; membership carried. 15.4 Centro Studi Psicodrama: no questions, yes 69, no 5, abstentions 4; membership carried. 15.5 Macedonian Psychodrama Association JL Moreno: no questions, yes 69, no 4, abstentions 3; membership carried. 15.6 Amigdala: the 2 people that recommended the institute stated that their experience of the institute was that teaching was done in a very structured way which was not reflected in the presentation. Voting yes 34 no 42. The institute was invited to re-apply next year. Membership not carried. 15.7 Centro International de Formation J.L. & Z Moreno: no questions, yes 50, no 14, abstentions 2; membership carried. 15.8 Swedish Psychodrama School: no questions, yes 49, no 22, abstentions 6; membership carried. 15.9 Oxford School of Psychodrama and Integrated Psychotherapy OSPIP: question raised about ethics of an associate trainer. Representatives asked if they knew about this responded yes, but we saw no need to explore the issue. Yes 44, no 27, abstentions 4; membership carried. 16. Election of the Council. Outcome: Chantal Neve Hanquet, Horatiu Nil Albini, Gabriela Moita, Yaacov Naor, Leandra Perrotta, Hannes Krall, Agnes Dudler, Norbert Apter, Eduardo Verdu, Celia Scanlan. 17. Any other businesses – Agnes is developing the singing group. Follow up for the presenting institutes. New book “Sociodrama in a changing world”. Cross culture training days. Chantal said that the new board could make a decision to increase the budget for the network group. We leave this in the hands of the new council. Dana asked for feedback from the institute that was rejected, what could we have done better. She wanted people to come and ask her. Can the Task Force for Peace become a committee in its own right. Greetings from Zerka and Grete. Hilde said that for the first time she saw discussions were talked about openly how can we find a procedure to deal with ethical problems, Arsa has talked about the importance of working out such difficulties in the Ethics Committee. Individuals making recommendations should take real care to have thorough understanding of what they are recommending. Some of these issues need to be explored. 18. Closure. FEPTO SINGER ANNOUNCEMENT Dear Colleagues and Friends, It is a pleasure to have found a weekend in February, when Jesse is able to sing with us a choice of FEPTO songs. I am happy to invite you to this meeting to Bonn from February 10th to 12th in 2012. The suggestion is to meet on Friday afternoon, have a first session and a come together dinner, sing the whole Saturday - with breaks off course - and Sunday morning. So we can part on Sunday about 1 or 2 o'clock. Depending on how many we will be, we can sing at my house. There is also room for some of you to sleep at my house. The train station is 6 minutes walk away and the airport Cologne/Bonn reachable within 30 minutes by bus, less by car. Germanwings and Airberlin or Easy Jets are some of the cheap flyers going to this airport. Looking forward to sing together, warmly Agnes Dudler agnesdudler@szenen.de NEW MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL PRESENTATION OF THEIR COMMITTEES NORBERT APTER Accredited person-centered psychotherapist (Carl R. Rogers) and psychodramatist (J.L. Moreno), as well as certified supervisor and trainer in both methods, I have the pleasure of running a private practice (individual and group sessions) in Geneva and of being the director of the Institut ODeF, specialized in relational competencies www.odef.ch For many years now, I have been training psychotherapists in psychodrama, coaches, trainers and managers in Action Methods, and numerous of professionals from institutions, companies and international organizations in soft skills (including listening skills, handling difficult personalities, conflict resolution, crisis intervention, becoming a motivating manager etc). In all my activities, I have always highly promoted the alliance of the way of being and the way of doing in professional settings. My challenge has been and remains: to facilitate balancing structure and creativity. THE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE The Development Committee is somehow new: it replaces and encompasses the Annual Meeting Committee but has in fact now a twofold aim, being: • A resource for the local organizers of the Annual Meeting, i.e.: providing them with the necessary elements (learned from past experience) to facilitate such a creative and nonetheless structured task. You are interested in understanding how the Annual Meeting gets organized (maybe you plan on organizing one some day in your country)? You want to help the local organizers in their huge and so very important task? You have suggestions to improve the AM? Contact me and/or join our Committee. . A thinktank for FEPTO’s development, gathering observations, questions, and ideas of improvements that the Council and any of its committees could adjust, refine, and implement, or (if needed) suggest to the General Assembly. This aspect is quite a new exciting challenge. You have observations about FEPTO that you would like to share? You have ideas, proposals of improvement of FEPTO’s life and activities? You have dreams for FEPTO? Let me know and/or join us to co-build the future. Hence this committee will help FEPTO to remain a lively creative structure. For the next two years, we plan on continuing the great job that Agnes Dudler and the Annual Committee’s members were doing so far. It is with pleasure that we will indeed support the local organizers in Norway to create our next Annual Meeting… for June 2012, and maybe Spain …for our 2013 AM! We also plan on checking out all the answers to our VOICES of the magnificent AM in Israel, and try to learn from there what could/should be improved… And last but not least, we are planning of asking all members of FEPTO for suggestions, ideas, proposals and implementing a thinktank to elaborate from these contributions…. So don’t be shy or hesitant in letting us know what you think… Let us all use each one’s multiple intelligence at the service of the collective intelligence in order to make FEPTO grow smoothly, creatively and efficiently! norbert.apter@odef.ch JOHANNES KRALL During my study of pedagogy and psychology at the University of Klagenfurt I got to know psychodrama in 1988-89. Psychodrama and a social psychoanalytical approach became important for my ethnographic studies on youth cultures and on political right wing movements. In 1991 I started my psychodrama training in Austria (.AGG). About half a year later in 1992 I began to work at the University of Klagenfurt in educational sciences. As a psychotherapist I worked for several years in an institute for family counselling and psychotherapy and in a child protection centre. I am also trained in organisational counselling and supervision. Since 2001 I am a trainer for psychodrama in the .AGG (Austrian Society for Grouptherapy and Groupdynamics), and since 2007 I am trainer for psychodrama at the University in Innsbruck as well. In 2007 I attended the Annual FEPTO Meeting in Ala.ati/Turkey. One year later in Glasgow I joined the Research Committee. In the following three years I have worked on projects like: – TRAIN: Towards Research Applied in International Networks of Trainees – Supervision in psychodrama training: study on outcome and helpful aspects. I am also very interested in research methodology, train the trainers and in crosscultural work (“International summer academy”) in psychodrama. Main publications Krall, Hannes: Trauma bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Szenische Arbeit in Psychotherapie und P.dagogik. Wien, M.nster: LIT Verlag 2007, 192 S. Krall, Hannes: Psihodrama in sociometrija v superviziji in coachingu in njuna povezanost s kvalitativnim raziskovanjem. In: Kobold, Alenka (Ed.): Supervizija in Koucing. Ljublana 2010, S. 293-312 Krall, Hannes: Psychodrama und Soziometrie in Supervision und Coaching – Ankn.pfungspunkte in der qualitativen Sozialforschung. In: Krall, Hannes/ Mikula, Erika/ Jansche, Wolfgang (Hrsg.): Supervision und Coaching. Verlag f.r Sozialwissenschaften: Wiesbaden 2008, S. 251-268 Krall, Hannes: Sprache und Szenische Arbeit in der Supervision. In: Supervision. Mensch, Arbeit, Organisation. Heft 2, 2009, S. 19-24 Krall, Hannes: Freud und Moreno – das Psychodrama, eine nicht-psychoanalytische Psychotherapie. In: Leitner, Anton/ Petzold, Hilarion G. (Hrsg.): Sigmund Freud heute. Der Vater der Psychoanalyse im Blick der Wissenschaft und der psychotherapeutischen Schulen. Krammer: Wien 2009, S. 341 - 354. Krall, Hannes: Lebensbew.ltigung im Alter – Psychodrama und Soziometrie mit .lteren Menschen. In: Knapp, G./ Spitzer, H. (Hrsg.): Altern, Gesellschaft und Soziale Arbeit. Mohorjeva: Celovec, Ljubljana, Dunaj 2010, S. 178 – 195. Krall, Hannes (Hrsg.): Jungen- und M.nnerarbeit. Bildung, Beratung und Begegnung auf der „Baustelle Mann”. Verlag f.r Sozialwissenschaften: Wiesbaden 2005, 252 S. Krall, Hannes: Jugend und Gewalt. Herausforderungen f.r Schule und Soziale Arbeit. Lit Verlag: M.nster 2004 (2007, 2. Auflage), 212 S. hannes.krall@aau.at RESEARCH IS A VITAL PART FOR THE FUTURE OF PSYCHODRAMA RESEARCH COMMITTEE REPORT/JULY 2011 In the past three years the Research Committee has become a creative place to develop, to support, to share and to present research initiatives in psychodrama. Gabriela Moita was the chair in this period and we all are very grateful to her for creating this research community within FEPTO. Thank you Gabriela! In the role of the new chair of the Research Committee my aim will be on keeping momentum with our ongoing research processes, getting new ideas, creating new projects, coordinating and networking… The Research Committee is an open group, which invites everybody to join who is interested in psychodrama research. We have to be aware that psychodrama – sociometry, sociodrama, group therapy etc. – is applied in many professional fields. It also offers helpful approaches to deal with development and conflict resolution in and between groups and society as a whole. Although psychodrama can refer to its long tradition and to lots of experiences all over the world, it is obvious that psychodrama needs also research as a point of reference in its practice. However, there is a need of research in many areas like psychodrama training, counselling and psychotherapy, social work, adult education supervision, organisational counselling and community education. The Research Committee wants to bridge this gap between psychodrama practice and research. Therefore the committee invites psychodramatists and researchers to create their own research projects. As a bottom up initiative so far we try to cover the following aspects of research in psychodrama: – Research concerning training in psychodrama – Research on psychodrama effectiveness – Research on psychodrama concepts, methods and instruments ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS ARE: 1. Training Evaluation - Evaluating how trainees view the training 2. Supervision Evaluation - Evaluating the supervision in the research topics defined 3. “TRAIN” - Practical research project done by our trainees 4. “Daphne” - An intervention action project that propose psychodrama as an effective method to prevent women becoming victims of violence 5. “Grundtvig” - A Research network Project that propose to use Psychodrama methods in training and evaluate the impact 6. “Anxiety” - explanatory case studies evaluating the effectiveness of Psychodrama in anxiety disorders 7. Life Long Learning Program (EU) “Ability of management women”. The efficacy of psychodrama and playback theatre in the re-qualification on women to enter the labour market again 8. Researching Psychodrama concepts: “Intersubjectivity and subjective truth”. RECENT ACTIVITIES AND NEXT STEPS OF THE RESEARCH COMMITTEE: Society for Psychotherapy Research: participating and presenting research projects at the international SPR conference in Bern (29. June – 2. July 2011) Members of the Research Committee with the President of SPR: Guillermo de la Parra. For the photo his HAT was with the Research Committee. Three research projects were presented and discussed at the SPR Conference. Psychodrama Research in the Field of Women Victims of Violence Ines Testoni, Galabina Tarashoeva, Maria Silvia Guglielmin, Gabriela Moita and Michael Wieser. More about the Research Committee visit the RC blog: http://bit.ly/o1Hn2s The aim of the project is to study if psychodrama and an integrated-ecological approach can effectively support women who are facing male violence. Questions like female subordination, (sexual) abuse, Mafia´s power are investigated. EVALUATION OF SUPERVISION IN PSYCHODRAMA TRAINING: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON OUTCOMES AND HELPFUL FACTORS Hannes Krall, Jutta F.rst Supervision of trainees is an important step in psychodrama training. In the presentation an empirical approach to evaluate learning experiences in psychodrama supervision is introduced and discussed. TRAIN -Towards Research Applied in International Networks of Trainees Jutta F.rst, Hannes Krall The goals of this international cross cultural project are to integrate research into psychodrama psychotherapy training, to stimulate international cooperation in research, to increase motivation and interest in research among trainees. Symposium on “Counselling and Psychotherapy. Research in Training and Professional Practice” (23.-25. September 2011) at the University or Innsbruck This symposium is organized in cooperation between our Research Committee and the University of Innsbruck. During this symposium first of all we will have time to listen and to discuss projects of our Research Committee and to get to know research projects at the University of Innsbruck as well. Secondly we will have time to develop our projects further by reflecting and getting some new input. And thirdly, we will have the opportunity to think about how we will go on as a Research Committee. If you want to come to this symposium, you can register: ulg-psychodrama@uibk.ac.at Research Committee in Sofia/ Bulgaria from 24-26 of February 2012: preparing our next meeting for new and ongoing research projects in our committee This meeting will give us time and space to work on our research projects. Everybody who is interested to join us, to participate in an ongoing project or to propose a new project or just to contribute by being a “critical friend” is very welcome. The programme will be developed according to the needs of the participants in the Research Committee. If you want to join and/ or to get more information contact Hannes.Krall@aau.at. See you soon! As a Research Committee of FEPTO we are aiming at integrating research in our psychodrama training and practice. Research in psychodrama is a vital part for the future of psychodrama in our professional roles and in society as well. Therefore it is our goal that every psychodrama institute should be represented in our psychodrama research community. With the experience, the knowledge and skills from all of us we will be able to learn from each other and to move forward and to become creative and spontaneous in our research community. Looking forward to welcome you, Hannes Krall Chair of the Research Committee hannes.krall@aau.at LEANDRA PERROTTA Leandra Perrotta was born in Australia in 1965 and grew up in Australia and Singapore. She now lives and works in Torino, Italy. She is a clinical psychologist, psychodrama trainer and dance therapist. She is Contract Professor at the Faculty of Psychology at the Universit. della Valle D'Aosta and teaches Psychogenealogy at the International Academy of Psychogenealogy in Bologna, Italy. Leandra is Co-Coordinator of the FEPTO Task Force for Peace and Conflict Resolution. She is Board member of the Associazione Mediterranea di Psicodramma and leads two psychodrama therapy groups a week and a psychodrama training group in Torino. She is also a member of the IAGP – International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes. Leandra has a private practice with individual patients and has developed an integrative model of Jungian psychodrama and dancetherapy where movement charged by active imagination becomes a means of symbolic expression which is then played upon the stage. She has lead Psychodrama groups in Argentina, Brazil, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Croatia, Switzerland, Scotland, Turkey, Serbia and Israel. Leandra’s main research interests are transgenerational issues, women’s studies and dreams and before becoming a clinical psychologist, she also obtained a degree in English and French literature. Her main publications are: • “Backstage theatre, Theatre laboratory and Role-Playing: New tools in investigating the patient-physician relationship”, in Transplantation Proceedings. 2005 Jun; 37 (5), p.2007-8. • “Alchimia di Sogni e Rappresentazioni: L’Osservazione nello Psicodramma Junghiano” (“Alchemy of dreams and representations”) in Il Sogno. Dalla Psicologia Analitica allo Psicodramma Junghiano (Dreams. From Analytical Psychology to Jungian Psychodrama), Franco Angeli, 2009. • Preface to Le Plaisir de Vivre, Anne Ancelin Sch.tzenberger, Di Renzo Editore, 2010. • Introduction to Psychog.n.alogie, Anne Ancelin Sch.tzenberger, Di Renzo Editore, 2011. REPORT OF THE ETHICS COMMITTEE It is with great pleasure that I take on the role as new Chair of the Ethics Committee. I wish to thank Arsaluys Kayir for her excellent work as the previous Chair and I will do my best to carry on what she has developed so far. Arsa has assured me that she will continue to support the Ethics Committee and indeed, I have already been able to avail myself of her very precious experience. A meeting of the Ethics Committee was held during the Annual Meeting in Neve Shalom, Israel, on the 31st March 2010. The members who renewed their commitment to the Ethics Committee and who were present at the meeting were Stefan Flegelskamp, Manuela Maciel, Arsaluys Kayir, Kostas Letsios, Maurizio Gasseau and Kerstin Jurdell. The discussion was very fruitful and touched upon the following topics: 1. The Ethics Committee feels there is an urgent need for: a. A complaints procedure. 2. The Ethics Committee feels there is also a need for: a. Norms regulating the internet, research, publishing and video taking; b. A definition of what is ethics; c. Ethical regulation for Institutes: relation- ship with colleagues and the development of standards for mediation among Institutes; d. Codes for education. 3. The EAP has inquired about the complaints procedure of FEPTO. 4. The Committee suggests: a. To update the Code of Ethics; b. To update and approve the brief ethical guidelines prepared by the previous Chair, Arsaluys Kayir, from the codes of FEPTO, EAP, and IAGP. c. To dramatize fictional ethical cases at the meeting; d. A closer collaboration with the Membership Committee concerning the presentation and voting procedure of new institutes; e. A closer collaboration with the Task Force for Peace and Conflict Resolution. One of the current priorities and goals of the Committee regards the definition of a procedure for ethical complaints. After the Annual Meeting in Neve Shalom this year, an ethical complaint made against the trainer of an association was brought to the attention of the FEPTO Ethics Committee. An enquiry has been opened by the respective associations involved and is still ongoing. The FEPTO executive of the Council and the Chair of the Ethics Committee are following the matter very closely and are awaiting the results of the enquiries. In her last report, Arsaluys Kayir proposed we temporarily refer to the complaints procedure from the Ethical Code of the Romanian association “J.L. Moreno” Psychodrama Society (SPJLM) since it was approved in 2007 - 2 years after the approval of the FEPTO Code of Ethics and Practice for Psychodramatists, laid out by Maurizio Gasseau, Gordon Langley and Judith Tesz.ry. I have been researching existing procedures in other countries and I wish to thank Anna Chesner, Galabina Tarashoeva, Pablo Poblaci.n, Elisa Lopez, Horatiu Albini, Norbert Apter, Gabriela Moita, Celia Scanlan, Wilma Scategni and Marco Greco who answered my mails to offer their support. The current members of the Ethics Committee are: Stefan Flegelskamp, Maurizio Gasseau, Bahar G.kler, Kerstin Jurdell, Nese Karabekir Ezgin, Marcia Karp, Arsaluys Kayir, Jan Lap, Konstantinos Letsios, Manuela Maciel, Ildik. M.vers, Henna Merikivi, Ren.e Oudijk. The Ethics Committee also avails itself of the wisdom of the Advisory Board of Ethics, whose members – Giovanni Boria, Pierre Fontaine, Maurizio Gasseau, Gordon Langley and Grete Leutz – have all chosen to renew their commitment to the Advisory Board and their support to the Ethics Committee. The next meeting of the Committee will be held at the Annual Meeting in Norway in June 2012. psicodramma@gmail.com EDUARDO VERD. Eduardo Verd. is a director of psychodrama, T.E.P. by the Nordic and Baltic Board of Examiners, and a family therapist. Before his psychodramatic education started he was a trained actor from Copenhagen and Los Angeles. Today he is the director of studies at the Moreno Institute Norway (Former Norsk Psykodrama Institute) and works full time with psychodrama with individuals, couples and groups and in organisations all over Norway. He also conducts workshops in many European countries, teaches psychodrama and supervises on all levels. He started his psychodrama education in 1992 and was mainly trained by Eva R.ine and Marc Treadwell. Eduardo joined FEPTO for the first time in Seville in 1998. He is also a board member of Nordic and Baltic Board, PIfE and the Norwegian Moreno Institute Eduardo was born in Spain in 1968 by a Norwegian mother and Spanish father. He moved to Norway in 1974. everdu@online.no NEW CHAIR OF THE MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE As the new chair of membership, I thank Dana Dragoteanu for handling over a well prepared and organised chair. It is a great pleasure to take over this chair and I know I will benefit a lot from what this committee has accomplished throughout the years. This committee looks totally different from when I first entered it for short period, many years ago. During the last few years the amount of membership applications has increased heavily and the amount of work has of course grown steadily with the numbers of applications. The demand for more structure, guidelines and clarity in the process of becoming a member is a result of our organisation growing quite fast. The increased numbers of membership applications have also been very visible in the General Assembly, where every year more and more time is designated to new applicants and voting. From the member’s feedback from Neve Shalom this year, I want this Chair to focus on some topics and tasks in the 2-year period, until next election: • To collect ideas from the members and listen to their experiences in applying membership. • To go through the criteria for becoming a member of FEPTO and see if they need to be changed or adjusted to our growing organisation in modern times. • To create more specific guidelines for handling applications. • To create easy information channel between the Chair and FEPTO members in order to prepare the members well in advance before a General Assembly by passing on information to them about new applicants. • To look through the voting procedure at the General Assembly and see how this can be done smoother. • To have a look at dormant memberships. At our last meeting in Neve Shalom, I spoke with many participants at the General Assembly who had ideas and thoughts for the voting procedures. Now is the time to speak out and I would highly appreciate it if you who have some ideas and thoughts can send them to me before October 31st. I will go trough them and bring them to the Council meeting in November and hopefully we can have some results for you at our next meeting in Oslo in June 2012. I hope to create a dynamic committee that some of you will be involved in during the year, and hope that I will be able to assist new applicants in their application procedure as a good ambassador for FEPTO eduardo@psykodrama.no AGNES DUDLER NEW CHAIR OF THE TRAINING COMMITTEE With being elected to the Council at Neve Shalom I will follow Zoran Djuric as chair of the Training Committee for the next two years. I am happy that Zoran will stay in the committee and I intend to work closely together with him. We have been working together very well in the Council for the last three years, when I was chair of the Annual Meeting Committee. Therefore I am quite confident, that we can cooperate with benefit. As I will not be able to come to the next council meeting in Oslo in 2012, Zoran will take my place and can thus continue his work in the Council too. Together with the other very engaged members of the Training Committee I intend to go on with the topics and projects already started. To intensify our work, two subgroups of the committee will meet this year, and in spring 2012 we are going to meet for a weekend at my home in Bonn, which is easy to reach by train and by plain. Being myself a trainer for almost 30 years I participated many years in developing standards, curricula and qualities in Germany as member of the Training Committee of the DFP (Deutscher Fachverband f.r Psychodrama, in English: German Professional Organisation for Psychodrama, accrediting organisation for training institutes in Germany). During my time in the Council of the DFP I also participated in a governmental committee and a national professional organisation of different psychotherapeutic schools to prepare the law for psychotherapy in Germany, which we have since 1999. I also bring the experience of 20 years as founder and director of the institute SZENEN, where we always put a high emphasis on training new psychodramatists in the most qualified way possible and had a lot of discussions about it among many different trainer colleagues. To do this kind of work now on the European level of FEPTO with so many different ways of training and creative solutions is a challenge I appreciate to meet. The questions the committee is working on are about realisation and improvement of a comparable quality of the psychodrama training in Europe. At the moment we have great differences in the amount of hours and the way, training groups are organized. Zoran has started to evaluate, what it takes to become a trainer in our member institutes. It was already Pierre Fontaine's concern to realize a training for trainers, which is being favoured by more and more members, while some do not think it necessary. In Gent the colleagues of the LOC started to find qualities needed in a good training, to compare not only numbers of hours, a difficult but very interesting task, which I would love to go on with. Last but not least I am organizing another training, which surely be very joyful: We will have a training weekend for FEPTO singers from February 10th to 12th 2012 in Bonn, where Jesse Webb, a trained singing teacher, will help us to learn some of the songs, I could already collect for a FEPTO songbook. Everybody who wants to participate is welcome. It will be fine, if we have different singing voices to be able to sing some songs in several voices. agnesdudler@szenen.de EVA FAHLSTR.M BORG LEANDRA PERROTTA REPORT OF THE FEPTO TASK FORCE FOR PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION In accordance to the tradition of meeting twice a year, the FEPTO Task Force for Peace and Conflict Resolution convened on the 27th March 2011, before the annual meeting, in Neve Shalom, Israel. The coordinators of the Task Force were Eva Fahlstr.m and Maurizio Gasseau and the members present at the meeting were: Galabina Tarashoeva, Jorge Burmeister, Judith Tesz.ry, Kostas Letsios, Leandra Perrotta, Manuela Maciel, Marcia Karp, Monica Westberg, Monica Zuretti, Natacha Navarro, Norbert Apter and Rosa Shemesh. One of the aims of this meeting was to create a more formal structure of the FTF (FEPTO Task Force for Peace and Conflict Resolution) and to clarify the mandates. There was much reflection on the identity and the goals of FTF: was it a think tank or a task force? In the meeting at Ghent, it had been decided that the tasks of the FTF were to train the Trainers, help the Helpers, implement research and teaching and carry on with supervision and intervision on peace work and conflict transformation. Other objectives were considered: 1. Implementation of peace work and conflict resolution with protocols within training institutes. 2. Help intervention between institutes with mediation. 3. Cooperation with the Ethical Committee. 4. FTF as a support and intervision group on conflict resolution. 5. Development of projects. It had been decided at the FTF meeting in Torino in 2009 to limit the number to 20 people and to close the group for 2 years. Thus Iafi Shpirer was accepted as a new member in Neve Shalom and the FTF renewed the decision to keep limit the group to 20 members which means that the group would be closed for another 2 years unless someone leaves the group. It was also decided that if members were non- active for 3 times in a row, the FTF would ask them if they wished to continue in their participation to the group. At present, the 20 current members of the FTF are: Agnes Dudler, Arne Husjord, Eva Fahlstr.m, Gabriella Nicotra, Galabina Tarashoeva, Iafi Shpirer, Jorge Burmeister, Judith Tesz.ry, Kostas Letsios, Leandra Perrotta, Manuela Maciel, Marcia Karp, Maurizio Gasseau, Melinda Meyer, Monica Westberg, Monica Zuretti, Natacha Navarro, Nevzat Uctum Muhtar, Norbert Apter, Rosa Shemesh. Galabina Tarashoeva has been collecting the experiences and skills of the FTF members and is building a structured computerized pool of competencies: What we can do? With whom? In which language? Treatment or Training? What models? What Target groups? Galabina Tarashoeva accepted to organize the next FEPTO Task Force meeting in Bulgaria on 15th/16th October 2011. Nevzat Uctum Muhtar put up a Yahoo group for discussion which is only open to Members of FEPTO Task Force. At the meeting, a short space of time was reserved to the guests Ursula Hauser and Maya Hess who presented their work at the Association of Psychodrama without Borders in Gaza. The FTF decided it could not give training in Gaza as representative of FEPTO but individual members offered their support to train the trainers on a personal basis. Eva Fahlstr.m and Leandra Perrotta were elected as new co-coordinators of the FTF for the next 2 years. The meeting was adjourned to 15th/16th October 2011 in Sofia, in Bulgaria. fahlstrom_uppsala@yahoo.com psicodramma@gmail.com ROSA SHEMESH THE 6th FEPTO CONFERENCE: PSYCHODRAMA - ENCOUNTER AND DIALOGUE NEVE SHALOM - JERUSALEM, APRIL 2011 The Israeli Organization of Psychodrama conducted the sixth FEPTO conference in collaboration with the Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organisations. Holding the meeting and the conference offered Israel an opportunity to thank FEPTO for the wonderful contribution to psychodrama in Europe and the Mediterranean region. It also allowed Israeli psychodramatists to meet and work with senior psychodramatists from Europe, and provided a stage for Israeli facilitators to work with a diverse group of Israelis and guests from abroad. Experienced psychodramatists and also graduates and students arrived in the conference along with group facilitators who came to the meeting and stayed for the conference. We chose the title of the conference Psychodrama and Encounter which is one of Moreno’s central ideas. It encompasses the infinite possibilities of dialogue that we hold with parts of ourselves and with our environment both close and far away. It is wonderful to discover the wide world to which we become exposed while holding a dialogue with all that the universe contains as a human experience. The option to put an empty chair and to talk with an inanimate object, or a living subject or someone who is not with us at the moment, or with persons whom we wish to get closer to, or with those towards whom we feel anger. Or others who perceive us as an immutable enemy where it seems that never, not even on the psychodrama stage, will we be able to meet them, with feelings and roles Rosa Shemesh that we carry within, with our bodies; those we can touch us and others who exist in our imagination. In the psychodramatic encounter, when the dialogue is both honest and brave, a meeting occurs that leads to a new creation. And for all of us, such creation can lead to a new perspective of the type of our affiliations, to expand the range of our social and familial connections. Most importantly: to widen our role repertoire, which means to enrich our selves from within. That is the way that may bestow a feeling of satisfaction, joy and improvement of the quality of life from the perspective of mental health, physical, social and spiritual well-being. We attempted to offer diverse activities, highlighting a wide range or workshops where group leaders tackled the subject in their own ways utilizing their own techniques and creativity. This expansive range enriched the possibilities for participants to meet as many facilitators as possible and to bolster their professional skills, while being engaged experientially. The program included 23 workshops (two had been cancelled at the last minute). We can see how the variety of topics that we are involved with, both personally and professionally, could be brought to a fuller expression, experience and learning by means of the dialogue and the encounter that psychodrama makes possible. We also set aside time for social events, like the Shabbat Dinner and an evening to dance and party. These activities were very exciting, stirring feelings of closeness and joy. The Friday night ceremony was a sort of experience of personal dialogue which was also social and cosmic at the same time. Participants were invited to connect to other with glowing bracelets that together created a large and bright chain. Every person who approached another and connected his/her bracelet to another’s offered a blessing, expressed a wish or a prayer. Together this formed a chain that contained all the words that gave voice to the wishes of this wonderful gathering of people of so many countries. The dance, too, created a great opportunity for an encounter of fun and spontaneity. It was exciting to see scores of people dancing with a feeling of enjoyment and physical freedom on the dance floor. The location of the conference, in Neve Shalom, a place with wide open fields with a breathtaking scenery allowed attendees to sit freely in the gardens, on benches in various areas and also to socialize in the lounge in the evenings. It is important to note that the meals at Neve Shalom were varied, rich, served nicely and were delicious. Similarly, the refreshments in the workshop room-cakes, fruit and drinks were tasty and bestowed a welcoming feeling of generosity. This was an opportunity to encounter the Arab and Israeli kitchens together. Participants in the conferences included Israelis, members of FEPTO who came to the meeting and stayed for the conference, and guests who arrived for the conference itself. Altogether there were 125 members present. A thought for future years: During the conference there were meetings of members of the “network” of some of the members of FEPTO. These members took part in the social events of the conference, but met in separate rooms in different times outside the workshops. These separate meetings which occur concurrently during the conference raise questions among the “network” members and the conference participants. It’s a good idea that the Executive Council of FEPTO thinks and considers this. We would like to share with you that when the conference ended we received many emails from the Israelis and the guests, in which they expressed their excitement and happiness with the rich and enlightening experience and for the opportunity to meet new facilitators and directors and meet friends from other countries. This was a memorable opportunity that allowed for enrichment of their personal and professional development. We would like to thank the FEPTO chairs: Jutta F.rst and Hora.iu Nil Albini, the conference chair Iafi Shpirer, and everyone who helped in making it happen, and all the facilitators and directors who accepted our invitation and agreed to come and share their knowledge and experience and to all the attendees from Israel and abroad. Translation: Jacob Gershoni, LCSW, TEP rosashemesh@gmail.com RUTI SHEMESH A SUMMARY BY A PARTICIPANT From my own personal perspective as a participant in the conference, I found it to be a “stage” for encounter and dialogue. The possibility of meeting peers from different countries and cultures, to share information to gain exposure to various ways of working with a wide range of populations was compelling, enriching and was an inspiring and challenging warm-up. Indeed, in workshops that I participated there was a palpable “act hunger” that Moreno spoke about. Thus, the conference was a gathering for work and provided many opportunities for psychodramatic action that was rich and meaningful on multiple levels. The workshop of Maurizio Gasseau allowed for encounter and dialogue among group members on the level of the group unconscious, and in a parallel way as an internal and personal encounter of everyone in the group on a deeper level of his/her own soul-the collective co-unconscious. The workshop of Judith Tesz.ry facilitated a dialogue between the body (and its aches) and the pre-verbal level with the spirit and the ability to talk and act. This encounter made the creation of a “bridge” between them possible. The workshop of Inci Do.aner created a “surplus reality” for an encounter and dialogue with the grief resulting from loss in all its layers: that which is connected to loss of persons meaningful in our lives, and also that which arises from the gap between the world as it is and the world as it “should be.” The encounter and dialogue among the group members in the areas that are hurting and “bleeding” facilitated strong support. Thus, during the conference there were enchanting moments of encounter and dialogue, both on the inter-personal level: in workshops, intermissions and large group meetings, and in the internal level: with the images inside each one of us. Translation: Jacob Gershoni, LCSW, TEP shemeshi@orange.net.il PAUL GERHARD GRAPENTIN A NEVE SHALOM EXPERIENCE There are some encounters which begin with fireworks and then quickly fade away. The experiences from my first FEPTO Annual-Meeting have quite a different feeling. Alone the atmosphere of Neve Shalom created a special combination: marvelous blooming nature, modest accommodation. Holding the conference in a tent, turned out to be much more professional than it appeared to be at first glance. And, of course, there was the LOC, which accompanied all participants with an untiring patience and friendliness as they went about realizing the many individual wishes. I believe holding this conference in a tent has a symbolic significance to the movement which is associated with Psychodrama. It is a noble task to bring participants from 26 countries together into a country which is in heavy conflict and at the same time searching for identity and peace. A country which is quite young and still very old. A country which itself is composed of people from many different countries. And, then, to have the willingness and daring to create something new. I am very impressed by the many colleagues who are busy with Psychodrama training in other European countries. I feel sometimes, here in Germany, as though I’m in a third-world country, when I hear about the developments and advances in other countries. But it is still an encouragement to use this situation as a challenge and opportunity to clearly see one's own position and perhaps thereby even establish new positions. What impressed me was how the moods constantly changed. Alongside the highlights were also low points of conflict, which were dealt with, gotten over and assimilated. This process is what I found most impressive. In this way, progress remained a solid aspect. The courage to share with one another without letting the barriers of language hold us back from having friendly contact, as well as, to inspire and support one another, is something that I wish we could have more of. The afterglow of the light, the blossoms, the encounters and psychodramatic work continues to live on inside of me. I am very happy to be part of this association, and I’m looking forward to the next meeting in 2012 in Oslo. grapentin@isi-hamburg.org AGNES DUDLER EXTRACT FROM THE NEVE SHALOM VOICES 63 colleagues did give us their opinion about our Annual Meeting in Neve Shalom in 2011 by filling out the evaluation sheets called “Voices”. There was a great appreciation of the Annual Meeting in general, and a great dissatisfaction about the procedure of voting new members during the General Assembly. This procedure surely has to be changed. While 81 % of the answers signed “more than satisfied” with the Annual Meeting as such, 58% have been very unsatisfied with the voting. 46% appreciated the GA very much (without the voting part) especially Anna Chesner's facilitation. (see table page 29). Following you find an extract of the verbal answers and comments. A larger version is to be found on the homepage at http://bit.ly/rrBEMY Did the AM meet your expectations? + To a great extent and much more. A very good experience!!! 6 Annual meetings get better each time. An extremely complex process and structure. Meeting was dynamic and opened a number of questions to be answered in future. Great networking and connecting. Very good structured; good place, good food, nice guiding in Jerusalem. Contentment with the program? What was useful? + The most useful was the work in small groups, 5 sessions! 17. Very good lecture by Gabriella about research! 6. Cross cultural practice. So many professionals at one place, 3. The mixture of “business”& PD-exchange, continuation and new topics. - Large group reflection could have been more to the point. We need more time together to share in plenary and less small groups, 2. Contentment with the information before and during the meeting? + It was enough and on time. Excellent. Well selected. Good program book! 16. - It was difficult sometimes to get answers to our questions. Not very well, 8. Were you satisfied with the General Assembly? + Yes. Till lunch time excellent. It is getting more structured. It was a difficult GA. Good facilitation! Well, it is always a turbulent time, but it’s getting better and better, 10. - For me it was confusing and ambivalent. Too long procedure voting new institutes! Voting for new institutes was catastrophic! 5. Too little structured. Too much, 12. WHAT SHOULD BE DIFFERENT The voting for membership. Avoid embarrassment. Clearer processes of how training organisations are chosen and questioned. Presentation and voting process of new members Answers range from “Catastrophy” via “change necessary” and “We must improve” to “very good”. But the majority experienced the procedure as shocking and unfortunate. Examples of answers: Very bad, should be totally different, we did not know enough to really decide. An unnecessary painful process. The voting process was quite dramatic; there were some very useful comments after the voting. OK. Suggestions to change the process were made a lot, which will be evaluated by the Membership Committee and the whole Council. WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE DIFFERENTLY? Structure: More space (2 hours) for committee work, 10. Small groups: More time for the presentation, more guidance for starting. More sessions for small groups. and: less sessions for small groups, 6. More free time please, 3. Clearer structure & keeping to your (own) rules, 2. Work also on communication, help people to speak up and to shut there mouths. Warm up: Was very fine, 9. More warm up and more warm up on real expectations of participants. Warm up to the topic, 2. More sociometry in the big group to encounter each other, 5. Creative actions were missing. There were warm ups? 3. I missed welcome for first comers, more time for warming up for new comers, 2. Contents: More professional topics (like Gabriela’s lecture). More practice demonstration and intervision. More structure and preparation around topics. Give the small groups enough time to share their experiences. New experience? No .. Others: Guests should be presented in the GA. Large group reflection should be directed by someone capable of working with large groups. Space for open discussion – reflective group in each day is not to be cut short, 2. Ethics at the Ethics Committee not at voting time. New warm ups, new games, how to use special techniques. Develop one strong network. „Open space” to discuss issues whatever come up. Creative procedures for accepting new institutes. TOPIC OR SUBJECT FOR THE NEXT MEETING Training and directing styles; Spontaneity vs. improvisation; professional conduct & ways to deal with difficult issues; work on training standards, 6. Dealing with conflicts, a better communication; encounter; open clear dialogue”, transparency, 6. Crossing borders among FEPTO institutes and associations – conflicts and integrations; the subgroups dynamic: who is who? procedures; Future me, creating new structure for young participants 5 - Ethical issues, ethics outside & inside FEPTO 4; changing times, change or acceptance, 3. Sociatry; Psychodrama in the 21th century, social and personal transformation, 3. The courage for life, 2. What helps in PD & sociodrama? “psychotherapy” with psychodrama. Focus on other applications of psychodrama and sociodrama, not only psychotherapy; Focus on training the trainers. Working with the large group. Internal world. Children and adolescents. Like this time: enough space for working in small groups. LOC's decision OTHER COMMENTS Keep the small groups working for at least a “whole day”, 4. Great congress and Israel! 2. The social dreaming was an excellent way to create harmony at an institutional level. If you give the conference this dialogue title, then let us really work on that subject. Warm thanks to the old Council and good luck to the new one in the difficult task to reach a balance between welcoming attitudes and need for requirements and standards. FEPTO is a living organisation and I hope/wish FEPTO good development. LOC: Dear LOC and volunteers, thank you for your work and love, you were such warm hosts, thank you! Thank you for an inspiring meeting! Very good organizers! Thank you! Venue: Neve Shalom was very good, the food, the room wonderful! Lovely meeting place in the oasis of peace. Not so easy for people who had their accommodation outside. AGNES DUDLER TABLE OF VALUES FROM THE NEVE SHALOM VOICES Answer ---------------- Question 1 2 unsatisfied 3 4 satisfied 5 6 7 more than satisfied 8 9 10 above expectation total answers 1. Expectations fulfilled - - 4 13 4 3 14 5 12 8 63 2. Content of the program - - - 7 5 4 17 18 6 5 62 Sum 1 + 2 - - 4 20 9 7 31 23 18 13 125 3. Information before/during AM - 2 4 5 6 6 8 10 7 11 59 Sum 1 - 3 - 2 8 25 15 13 39 33 25 24 184 4. GA 4 7 9 13 5 2 11 7 1 2 61 5. Presentation and voting for new members 5 27 15 1 2 3 1 2 - - 56 Sum 4 + 5 9 34 24 14 7 5 12 9 1 2 117 Total number of answers 9 36 32 39 22 18 51 42 26 26 301 Answers/ question/ group ------------------------ GA, without/ with voting ----------------------- Voting procedure for new members unsatisfied: 1. - 2.: 0 1. - 3.: 2 ----------------- 4.: 11 4. - 5.: 43 ----------------- 5.: 32 satisfied: 1. - 2.: 24 1. - 3.: 31 ----------------- 4.: 22 4. - 5.: 38 ----------------- 5: 16 more than satisfied: 1. - 2.: 47 1. - 3.: 67 --------------------------- 4.: 18 4. - 5.: 24 --------------------------- 5.: 6 above expectation 1. - 2.: 54 1. - 3.: 82 --------------------------- 4.: 10 4. - 5.: 12 --------------------------- 5.: 2 125 184 ---------- 61 117 ---------- 56 Answers satisfied and less with AM: 1 - 4: 35 More than satisfied, 5 - 10: 149, sum= 184 81% have been more than satisfied with the annual meeting Answers satisfied and less with GA: 1 - 4: 81 More than satisfied, 5 - 10: 36, sum = 117 Answers satisfied and less with voting: 1 - 4: 48 More than satisfied, 5 - 10: 5, sum = 56 Answers GA without voting: 1 - 4: 33 More than satisfied, 5 - 10: 28, sum = 61 58% were not satisfied with the voting of new members, while 46% were more than satisfied with the other part of the GA. INVITATION FOR FEPTO ANNUAL MEETING 2012 Oslo, June 24, 2011 Dear Horatiu and Norbert, TheNorwegian Institute for Expressive Arts and Communication in association with the Norwegian Moreno Institute is honouredto announce that the FEPTO 2012 annual Meeting will take place outside Oslo, Norway in June 2012. Before the FEPTO AnnualMeeting you are welcome to join us in a conference from June 8th to June 10th. The working title of the conference is “Empowerment and Resilience”. The Annual Meeting starts on June 10th and lasts until June 14th. For this year’s Annual Meeting we have chosen the title “The Creative Saving Lie – the Balance between Denial and Truth”, inspired by Henrik Ibsen and his play “The Wild Duck”. Accommodation and activities will take place at Romerike Folkeh.gskole outside Oslo, Norway – a quiet, beautiful location situated close to Gardermoen Airport. The two institutes and the Local Organization Committee are happy to invite you and will do all we can to make your stay in Norway an enjoyable experience. With best regards, On behalf of thetwo institutes andthe Local Organization Committee Eduardo Verd. and Arne Husjord JUTTA F.RST FEPTO LIFE TIME AWARD FOR EVA Most of us know Eva from her role as the most creative and enthusiastic theatre director FEPTO has ever seen. But comparatively with her other contributions to this organisation it is only a small visibly part. Since FEPTO was founded she was working - mainly behind the curtains - as a frivilliant teacher, counsellor and supervisor. She helped with all her profound knowledge and competence and knowledge into many difficult situations. We have the feeling she will be available in a crises even if she has only one leg or arm left. If FEPTO could be seen as a House, Eva is one of its strongest pillars. Always there when relationships get difficult and helps to solve the problem. What would a society be without the Red Cross and the Fire Brigade? Eva is both in one - and at the same time as warm-hearted and humorous as could be! We want to thank an honour her by this award. jutta.fuerst@uibk.ac.at ZERKA T. MORENO AWARD 2011 ADAM BLATNER NOMINATION FOR ZERKA T. MORENO AWARD 2012 The major reason Dr. Figusch deserves this award is that he has been the leader of a team that has engaged in the challenge of re- publishing Moreno’s out-of-print books, with Zerka Moreno’s blessing. He wrote: As these books have been out of print for almost 30 years, trainees and practitioners have only limited availability to key texts. Hence the desire to ensure Moreno's work becomes available again to the widest possible audience worldwide in a fresh, 21st century edition, at www.lulu.com • Moreno, J.L. (2010) The Theatre of Spontaneity. The North-West Psychodrama Association • Moreno, J.L. (2010) Impromptu. The North- West Psychodrama Association • Moreno, J.L. (2011) The Words of the Father. The North-West Psychodrama Association • Moreno, J.L. & Moreno, Z. (2011) Psychodrama. Second Volume. The North- West Psychodrama Association • Moreno, J.L., Moreno, Z. & Moreno, J. (2011) The First Psychodramatic Family. The North- West Psychodrama Association Currently we are working of two other titles: 'Psychodrama Volume 3', and 'Who Shall Survive?', aiming to get these in print by 2012, with more books to follow later on. He wrote me: In terms of the estimate of the amount of time spent on this project, this must be well into the many hundreds of hours, if not more. I think it would be really difficult to exactly quantify it, as I tend to do bits on the project almost on a daily basis, as well as spending larger chunks of time when actually editing, formatting or designing covers. And that is just my time; of course, there are also the other colleagues involved. In addition, Dr. Figusch has been unique and tireless in using his tri-lingual background to translate papers among his three languages: Hungarian, Brazilian Portuguese, and English. Other reasons Dr. Figusch more than merits this award - he ranks in my estimation as one of the most enthusiastic, active, and productive people in the international arena of psychodrama at present. adam@blatner.com PSYCHODRAMA ON THE EUROPEAN STAGE MARCIA KARP MEANINGLESSNESS OR UNIVERSALITY? GOD AND THE EMBODIMENT OF CHANGE Well, I ran the opening plenary to the BPA conference called The Embodiment of Change. It took place at St. Mary's Catholic College near London where the Pope visited the year before. This year's conference committee, who did an excellent job, were Anna Napier, Chair, Anna Chesner, Barbara Adis, Olivia Lousada, Chip Chimera and Adela Campbell. Nothing seemed too much trouble for them from arranging our Gala dinner on Saturday night to getting a room key if the key stuck, etc. It truly was a co-created event from the people who made our beds, the chefs, the workshop leaders and the 130 is participants. The title of the first Plenary, which was one and a half hours on the first day, July 1, Friday was: “Am I Nothing or Am I God?: Moreno's Concept of the Godhead” As the Plenary convenor, I focused on how the concept of the Godhead relates to the conference theme, the embodiment of change - how we ourselves change or don't and how we affect change or don't in the people who come to see us for help. I began by saying, “We are on the brink of creation. We together will co-create this conference. It is, as yet, unborn and we are now “the creators before the Sabbath” Moreno hoped each of us could live our lives as though we are “at the brink of creation.” I asked the group to think of a moment in their lives when they thought they were somebody or really something. What change had to occur in order to play that moment? They shared in pairs a successful moment of professional or personal change. Each pair, after discussion, shared with another pair (in a 4 some.) Each partner told the story of the other partner as a story or narrative. Change on 'Google' means creating something different, a reciprocal shift that makes something new or alter. Many of us fear change because: 1. We are afraid of rejection if we become different. 2. We tend to stay with what's familiar even if what's familiar isn't working. 3. We resist being told something is wrong. 4. We think we know how to deal with a situation that is known rather than dealing with a situation that is unknown. 5. We don't like to admit to being wrong and change may negate what we've done in the past. 6. Change is unknown and we don't tend to like the unknown. 7. It is hard to change beliefs which may be necessary to do in order to change. 8. Resistance to change may be making a powerful statement. The groups of 4's became a group of 8 in discussion about what has personally helped or hindered change in one's life. The next direction was to make a continuum line with those who are familiar with Moreno's Godhead concept at one end and at the opposite end of the imaginary continuum line were those who never heard of the concept but had fantasies about what it means. The microphone was passed around to those who could make statements from the middle or from either end of the spectrum. We tried collectively to understand. Moreno, in my opinion, was misunderstood regarding the concept of the Godhead. Many thought he was megalomaniacal, having an egotistical view in assuming he was God. In fact, wasn't he humble in saying, “I cannot be God alone. You must be God too.” He believed that each of us needs to co- create the next moment and share the responsibility for all creatures, encounters and moments. Our future is our mutual responsibility, and so is the present moment. I cannot do it alone. I need help as does every God or creator. Moreno observed a 'thou' God of the Hebrews, a 'He' God of the Christians and he proposed an 'I' God, or a 'me' God, being a co-creator of all. As God, the Creator, we are unbiased, loving the troubled and the successful alike. In a psychodrama session, we know that the protagonist is not alone. He. Has the director and the group. Neither is the director alone. The group are co-facilitators, therapeutic agents of each other. The moments of action in the group should have: A. An element of surprise, B. Be 'sui generis', that is never having happened before and never will it happen again in the future. The spontaneous encounter is tailored to those people and at that specific time. C. It should happen on the spur of the moment. The action should be created adequately to address the newness of the moment. Enjoying story telling I told a personal tale of trying to catch crabs on a beach, with my step son's girl friend's family, when I first came to England. They all were experienced 'crabbers.' I knew nothing about catching seafood and I felt a fake trying to keep up. I sat down on the beach near a rock pool and decided to enjoy the moment. I thought of the poster on my wall that said,” Sit Still Until You Really See.” I watched the sun on the water, glistening pearlized shells hanging on to the side of the rocks and the ripples shimmering in the sunlight. A beautiful scene preferable to worrying about catching crabs. In front of my eyes in the rock pool were two long, bright blue feelers coming into view. I put my hand into the water and caught a royal blue lobster, which must have got trapped in the rocks when the tide went out. Everyone came running saying that in twelve years crabbing, they'd never caught a lobster and wondered how I did it. After telling this story of discovery to the group, I asked each of the 130 people to 'face an empty chair and talk to yourself in the chair as to what you are open to change in your life and what creative contribution could you make to the next few days as a leader or as a participant. Sit in the chair and hear the words you just said, be your own patient, then reverse roles and be your own therapist. It seemed to prepare people for a most rewarding conference. MKarp11444@aol.com BERNA G.KENGIN 36th GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPIES CONGRESS, BERGAMA - TURKEY “Before you consider someone as an enemy, Make a trip in his/her moccasins” An Indian saying The 36th Group Psychotherapies Congress was held in Bergama/Turkey. Starting with the pre-congress program on May 25, 2011, the congress took place on May 26-28, 2011. This was the annual international encounter on the ancient field of Bergama/Pergamon, where therapy started more than two thousand years ago. The topic of the congress was “The Moccasins of the Other”, referring to the famous Indian saying. The ancient Aesclepion once more witnessed many workshops on psychodrama and group therapies, with the organization of the Izmir Psychodrama Association, the congress president being Meral Gen.. The pre-congress program consisted of two different workshops. Leni Verhofstadt-Den.ve worked on Experiential-Dialectical Psychodrama: Theory and Practice. Nu.in Sar.murat Baydemir worked on Family Therapy in the Cycle of Psychodrama. Many groups practiced in three hour workshops for three days. The topics and the group leaders were as follows: Grete Leutz-; Ar.aluys Kay.r and Bahar G.kler- Understanding the Person with His/Her Dilemmas; Jorge Burmeister and Natacha Navarro - Prometheus: The Genius of Liberty/Mythosociodrama; Inci Do.aner - Who am I, Who are We; Yaacov Naor - The War After: Psychodrama and Inner Aggression Traces of the Past In the Present; Judith Tesz.ry - Before Considering Someone as an Enemy, It Is Better to See What It Is All About; Monica Westberg and Gunnel Carlsson - The Drama of the Suffering. Public conferences also took place during the three days of the 36th Group Psychotherapies Congress, all using psychodramatic techniques. The topics and the speakers were as follows: “Addiction”, for adults, by Behice Boran and Nalan Garipard..; “Examination Anxiety”, one session for K8 students and one session for K12 students, by Zuhal Yerlikaya; “Violence and Drug Addiction in Adolescents”, for parents, by Ayten Zara. The congress started with an opening speech by Dr. Grete Leutz. She addressed the audience sharing past experiences and the aspect of today. The famous Turkish writer Ahmet .mit was a special guest speaker. He talked about the first murder in history, and accordingly the story of the first other, in a humorous speech. The first afternoon continued with the moving conference of Yaacov Naor, “Psychodrama as Dialogue Between Enemies”. Naor shared personal and professional experiences on the topic. The intensive program of the first day ended with a very special conference from Ali Babao.lu*, the honorary guest of the congress. His speech was named as “The Other’s Shoes”. The audience in the ancient amphitheatre were deeply affected by his words. While questioning if anybody can be in someone else place, he commented that “everybody is alone and unique between his/her own hat and shoes”. His following words were important for the audience who had gathered in this event to learn more about understanding the other. “Every person is a whole with his/her own and family history, and the personality that these have provided, and a recurrence of that experience in the universe is not possible. Every individual lives with the ability and skills which his/her family history enables him/her, and his/her personality slowly develops throughout life with difficulties. We, who deal with understanding people as psychiatrists and psychologists, we repeatedly experience and understand this fact in every new case we meet. We have great difficulties in understanding the range from very simple experiences to the very dramatic and tragic ones, even the traces they leave. At the end, the closest we can get, and after long experiences, is wisely saying “these things happen” in an indulgently understanding way. Otherwise, it is far beyond our head, our feelings and perception capacity, to fully understand the life stories we hear, even completely impossible in most of them”. Babao.lu continued sharing some of his impressive experiences on victims of torture. He than stated: “We are actually specialists of help. And we don’t have to wear the moccasins of the other in order to help. It is sufficient to know that there are special conditions where people stand in life, and to try to understand these special conditions. Everybody is a unique being in between his/her own moccasins and cap. Everybody wears their own moccasins. This is the reason that wise Indians wanted us to achieve this impossible thing before considering them as enemies. Yes, we can’t walk around with another’s moccasins. But we still can try to understand his private life. And this is what we should do as “the authorities of the human condition”. We can be better experts according to how much we succeed in achieving this, and be divinely praised. But I don’t think we will so much be divinely praised. Because as I said, these special fields of experience are closed for us, unless we have experienced something similar.” Babao.lu continued by emphasizing the great contribution of literature in enriching experiences. He finished his words by referring to the importance of the psychodrama method on this topic. “Getting into a similar position opens a door to better understanding in psychology. Of course we all go through that door as ourselves, and in our own way. But in this method, being in a similar position also can make the experience similar. Of course every individual experiences the situation on their own. But this is the closest one to the other’s experience. In this instant, our horizon becomes similar to the other’s horizon. We all have numerously experienced this enlightenment during our psychodrama sessions. Still we stay as that unique being between our moccasins and cap at that moment. This only gives us an opportunity to see the view with the other’s eyes. The only way to get closer to the other is by enriching our experiences. I hope we all can have rich visions. Every new perspective that we see is a new window to the human, and it is our enrichment. I wish you all as rich experiences as can be possible.” The second day of the congress started with S.heyla .nal. Her conference was on “Neurobiology of Empathy”, emphasizing the biological aspect of psychotherapy. Berna G.kengin and Aliye Ercan shared experiences on puppet use in psychodrama in their presentation named “Reflections to Aesclepion from Puppets, through our mirrors”. The last presentation of the day was an important topic from Monica Westberg - Gunnel Carlsson on “Sociatry and the Art of Reconciliation”. The first presentation of the last day was from Aliye Mavili Akta. on “Women and Psychodrama”. The program continued with the graduation ceremony, and new assistants and therapists were handed their certificates. The last presentation of the congress was a large Group work by Jorge Burmeister and Natacha Navarro. The two different groups working on different aspects of the story of Prometheus presented their production of mythosociodrama. The congress ended with the closing ceremony. The duty was handed over to Ankara organization for next year. The participants left the ancient theatre with new knowledge, and deep feelings to work further on. *The honorary guest of the congress Ali Babao.lu unfortunately passed away on July 15, 2011. We would like to express our regards in his memory. berna@aynapsikodrama.com Granada-Imagen-Anuncio-12.2010.gif JORGE BURMEISTER AND NATACHA NAVARRO THE 11th SUMMER ACADEMY IN GRANADA Since 1999 colleagues from many countries and different methodological background come together to study individual, social and cultural concepts of identity, values and behavior in prominent approaches of group psychotherapy and group work in Granada The basic idea is to learn from one another enriching one owns human and professional competence. It is in accordance with the spirit of JL and Zerka Moreno invested for so many years in the creation of the IAGP, the International Association of Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes, as an inclusive international umbrella organization for our field that the academy is recognized under its auspices. Three models of group psychotherapy meet in Granada: group analysis, psychodrama and group dynamic. The maximum number of participants is limited to 50 to guarantee a real encounter as the central “working principle” for the group. This time the academy has focused especially on the trans-cultural or “universal” aspects of groups (Yalom) which go beyond social and cultural differences. This dimension represented by the duality of “Eros and Thanatos” refers to the concept of the “foundation matrix” (S Foulkes) as well as to the concept of the “cosmic dimension” (JL Moreno) or to the “collective unconscious” (CG Jung). Dialogue is the key term for peace processes at a global level. Thus the summer academy is destinated to create a living learning field for the quality, but also for the breaking points of multicultural dialogue. It focuses on different models for mediating and transforming conflicts between and in groups. Granada as historic model demonstrates the chances of a peaceful coexistence between different cultures, but also its menaces and its fragility. The academy as the essence of a shared culture of the group is putting the “tyranny of differences” of language, approach or culture into question. The clash between different expectations, traditions and needs requires a setting which promotes exchange and address conflicts openly in medium and large groups, but also small group experiences as more intimate and personal ways to reflect and elaborate the impact on one’s own individual and collective background. So the academy offers not only different methods but also different formats to create a learning field for everybody. The morning starts with conferences which explore the general topic of the academy, providing competence but also stimulating the discussion among the participants. The conference of the first day refers to the setting of the large group.. This year Maurizio Gasseau and Leandra Perrotta explained their model of a Jungian psychodrama large group which included also elements of dance therapy. On Tuesday Eva Fahlstr.m gave a fascinating overview over the theory and the practical implications of the model of “restorative justice”, on Wednesday Mohamed Taha, professor of the Al Cairo University in Egypt explained the Egyptian revolution as a group phenomena applying different theoretical frame works to a recent historic event in an absolute inspiring way. On Thursday Galit Shahir from Israel, one of the participants who received a scholarship, illustrated the fundaments of the so called “quiet revolution” in the educational area, a group based approach which integrates elements of Jung, Moreno, Winnicott and Kohut. And finally David Gutmann from Paris, the president elect of IAGP, gave an introduction to his key concept of “transform-action” presenting a special understanding of the dynamic between Eros / Agape and Thanatos /destruction which helps to promote change processes in different group settings. Due to different reasons Hora.iu Nil Albini from Rumania (talking about Moreno’s trans-cultural vision), Jorge Margolis from Mexico (talking about the large group “Mahmut” project of reinsertation of guerrilleros) and Christian de la Huerta from the US and Cuba (talking about spiritual transformation in groups) were not able to come this time. Fortunately these colleagues have promised to assist in the future the Granada Academy. The different medium (with rotating leadership) and small size groups are run by prominent colleagues (like in the case of psychodrama) this year by Grete Leutz, Eva Fahlstr.m, Wilma Scategni, Manuela Maciel, Vanda Druetta, Natacha Navarro, Chiara de Marino, Gracia Bustos, or in former years by Marcia Karp, Marisol Filgueira, Mario Buchbinder, Ursula Hauser and many others. Topics like transgene- rational trauma and heritage, gender discrimination and resilience or a fascinating combination between hamam (Arab bath) and psychodrama were especially explored during the workshops. A “social dreaming matrix” conducted by Gila Offer from Israel (the co-founder of the method together with Gordon Lawrence) and the large group run by Maurizio and Leandra framed the academy in the beginning and in the end of each day. The social events during the evening includes Flamenco, a visit of the illuminated Alhambra by night, guided sightseeing tours and a farewell dinner on the terrace of the venue of the event, the eldest flamenco school in Granada, la Pe.a de Plater.a. Students are especially welcome and fees are tailored according to the possibilities of the participants. The academy emphasizes especially the encounter between different generations beyond the informal level from the student or young colleague to the senior expert. The academy offers also grants for students from Palestine, Israel, Morocco and many other countries. Usually participants want to stay in touch after this experience forming a new “contact” group between their different countries from Southern, Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. It is always hard to believe how the differences between individuals and collective groups converge into a respectful and humanistic community of truly heartfelt, authentic and mindful colleagues from all over the world in only one week. The academy is not only cooperating with the University of Granada (Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution) but has been officially recognized this year by the Spanish branch of UNESCO of being of social and humanitarian interest. bulmonte21@bluewin.ch nanavarro@telefonica.net http://www.iagp2011spp.org/img_upload/header.jpg http://www.iagp2011spp.org/img_upload/blank.gif http://www.iagp2011spp.org/img_upload/blank.gif http://www.iagp2011spp.org/img_upload/blank.gif http://iagp2011spp.org/img_upload/Hospitalidade1.jpg Dear Colleagues and Dear Friends, I wish you all a peaceful season and invite you to look on the website at the wonderful program of our IV Regional Mediterranean and Atlantic Congress of the IAGP, that will take place at Porto 7-10, September, 2011. As you can see many colleagues from all continents, and from different group models, will come to this meeting share the work they are doing. Despite we will have the papers on-line is not the same as if we are all together! I believe this will be a fruitful opportunity to listen, share and discuss our work with everyone. Michael Wieser tell you his expectations about that meeting http://bit.ly/npI5ax In Porto, celebrations go together with fine wining and dining. Whether you experience home-made cooking in Ribeira quarter, fresh fish and seafood in a “marisqueira” or cuisine d'auteur by creative Chefs, you will find yourself addicted to the pleasures of the palate. For this and all the other reasons you will find out during your stay we invite all to book a seat for Congress Dinner on the 08th September (35€ per person). Jutta F.rst tell you some words about this wonderful city and how nice is being together: http://bit.ly/pUWhWy If you haven’t book a room yet contact the Executive Secretariat, from the 01st of August we will release all rooms pre-booked and from this date onwards all booking will be on request. Have a look at the whole congress site: www.iagp2011spp.org Do not miss this meeting! Come and join us! http://bit.ly/qLAqth Warmly, Gabriela Moita Chair of the Organizing Committee gabriela.moita@mail.telepac.pt DENIZ ALTINAY LARGE GROUP PSYCHODRAMA PROJECT BOLLUCA CHILD VILLAGE PSYCHODRAMA PROJECT, ISTANBUL, T.RK.YE THE PRESENTATION OF THE VILLAGE AND THE RATIONALS OF THE PROJECT 104 Children, 37 Staff, 3 Months Protection and Welfare Village for Children (Bolluca) is a living space for children that are under the protection of the government through the Social Services Law. These children are not apt for adoption, are not physically handicapped and also are not separated from their siblings. The village consists of two style houses, in which the children dwell, youth houses, a library, a kinder garden, an administrative office and storage. In each house a mother lives with a maximum of 7 children. Most of the children in the village are under protection due to socio-economic deprivation and family disruptions, while some others due to risky life conditions, like physical and emotional neglect and abuse. In this sense, Istanbul Psychodrama Institute aims to improve the healthy family environment and supportive social surroundings of these children and train all the responsible staff as much as possible through the method of psychodrama. By doing so, the Institute also aims to help the children gain the necessary skills to be adults able to determine their own values and goals, and to possess the necessary skills for relationships and adaptation. Full version of the article > http://bit.ly/qD7fxx PSYCHODRAMATIC PROCESS In the project, for children and adolescents were systematically organised in psychodrama groups. Moreover for the younger children and the special children who needed individual assistance along the group process, individual sessions were held. At the same time, Sociometric Tests have been applied to all the children and adolescents in the village. Within the context of the project, a total of 95 people - 70 children and adolescents, 13 mothers- aunts and 12 male staff - were included. During the 3 months of the project, a total of 108 psychodrama group works were held. Warm Up with the Large Group At the beginning of the project a large psychodrama session was held with a total of 42 people, including village staff consisting of 31 people - management staff, village mothers and aunts, youth leaders and other staff - and the psychodramatists consisting of 11 people. Small Groups for Encounter and Diagnosis For the first two weeks of the project, the therapists evaluated the children in the diagnostic and scanning groups, which were divided according to the ages. Child Psychodrama Groups The child groups were formed according the evaluations from the first two weeks of scanning groups, and the development levels of the children. The groups consisted of minimum 4, maximum 7 children from the ages of 6-10.In the project, a total of 6 children groups were held. A therapist and a co-therapist carried out each group. Groups took place every week, and lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes per session. Adolescent Psychodrama Groups There were 4 separate adolescent groups: 1 pre-adolescent group, 1 middle school group, 1 female adolescent group and 1 male adolescent group. In the adolescent groups a minimum of 5, a maximum of 9 adolescents were included. Mothers- Aunts- Youth Leaders Psychodrama Group This group consisted of 13 people, were carried out every week and lasted 2 hours per session. The mothers, aunts and youth leaders who spend 24 hours taking care of each child individually, taking care of all their problems and expectations, are under heavy stress. Village Male Staff Psychodrama Group This group was composed of 13 male staff. The group work especially based on being a role model, sharing responsibility and empathy skills. Closure and Evaluation with Playback Theatre In the last week, the whole village staff, children, therapists and a couple of authorised officers from the sponsor company participated as the audience in the Playback Theatre performance. Directed by Deniz Alt.nay, Istanbul Spontaneity Theatre (Playback Theatre) actors’ performance was in the form of the whole project’s feedback session. THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE PROJECT Based on to the feedback from mothers-aunts and from the children themselves gathered during the playback theatre performance, main gains from the project can be summarised as follows: The children and the adolescents: • are in a better relationship with their siblings, mothers and have improved their communication skills among their friends • have increased their empathy abilities • show significant increase in self- expression • show generally less aggressive and impulsive behaviours • prepare themselves for an activity without being warned and have gain responsibility skills • are more positive and more motivated towards life • state that they enjoyed the groups very much and had much fun www.istpsikodrama.com.tr denizaltinay@istpsikodrama.com.tr K.LLIKE LILLESTIK VII. BALTIC MORENO CONFERENCE “PEOPLES' STORIES” AUGUST 24-26, 2012 TALLINN, ESTONIA VII. Baltic Moreno Conference is for stories from different countries and nations to meet in psychodrama sessions. People are telling stories and carrying them through generations to overcome disasters, to believe in happiness and sustainability, to remain and remember. Narrative is an important tool to keep identity of nations. We are inviting advanced psychodramatists to lead workshops where people can share stories more on social level of psychodrama. We are expecting students to attend every workshop and write down the content of different stories to collect them later in a book. Friday afternoon is planned for city tours in smaller groups to see Tallinn by different viewpoints - Estonians, Germans, Russian, Jews, Danes, Swedes, Fins etc. Friday evening is for big group meeting and sharing experiences. Saturday and Sunday workshops are divided into 3 sessions: I. The War. Pre-and post- II World War stories, generations, secrets, traumas etc II. The Wall. Dividing Europe in two parts, borders, separation, connections, power etc III. The Union. Independence, joining, freedom, rules, future etc Big group meeting is planned in the end. We invite to lead workshops I. Session - CP-s and psychodrama leaders, II. Session - advanced psychodrama students, III. Session - TEP-s and psychodrama trainers. Please contact us if you are interested to lead a workshop or participate: http://bit.ly/qBbcJN Sincerely, your Conference team morenokeskus@gmail.com NORBERT APTER TRAINING IN HUMANISTIC PSYCHODRAMA RECOGNIZED IN SWITZERLAND AS A POSTGRAD TRAINING In 2008 our hopes started by the process of recognition of Psychodrama by FSP (Swiss Federation of Psychologists). PDH (Psychodrama Helvetia), i.e. mainly Roger Schaller, Helena Brem, Suzanne Kunz, and I, along with other supporting members of PDH, started this long and difficult process. When the file was completed, modified, re-modified, and finally presented, FSP refused to recognize Psychodrama as a method as such. Disappointment. PDH www.pdh.ch decided then to replace this request to FSP by another: recognizing training in humanistic psychodrama as a specialization of psychotherapy. PDH asked the Institut ODeF to do so. Indeed, Institut ODeF, of which I am director, is the only institute in Switzerland providing such a training program. Two years started again of writing a new file and going through procedures, modifying, re-modifying and presenting the final version of the file. FSP > www.psychologie.ch Among the many thoughts and wishes that the picture was symbolizing, when sending Institut ODeF's wishes at the end of 2010 (see the picture), I remember that there was the hoped for ending of this enormous task: the sooner, the better. Institut ODeF > www.odef.ch On the 25th of June 2011, Institut ODeF's training was recognized by FSP's General Assembly of delegates as “Post grad training in humanistic psychotherapy with emphasis on psychodrama”. Relief. Next years, psychologists (who are trained in humanistic psychodrama at Institut ODeF, Geneva) will receive easily the necessary accreditation by the state: “Psychologist specialized in psychotherapy”. Pleasure. Soon, will come the new law... that is another story, we will see. Suspense. norbert.apter@odef.ch www.norbertapter.ch MARCIA KARP GARANA REPORT To: feptogrouptalk@yahoogroups.com From: Mkarp11444@aol.com Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:24:43 Subject: [feptogrouptalk] International Jazz Garana Romania We are at the International Jazz Festival for some days. Horatiu, Eva Fahlstr.m and Laase, Norbert Apter, Yaacov Naor, 6 others et moi. Marvioso, fantastique, real artistry. We sit on forest logs and listen until 2 am. Good food, good company, plumb brandy, chicken soup, Jewish jokes and cream tea with home made scones, raspberry jam, blue-berry jam and Devonshire clotted cream. Doesn't get much better than this. Tomorrow Moroccan lamb and prunes. Jazz every night for 4 nights from 7:30 onwards. I took a video last night of the opening band; Poland came next but though good was a bit anti-climactic. Horatiu now has a copy of the video and will send it on request, I think. Israeli base player Avishai Cohen (means father's gift) drummer and piano opened the show last night. Balmy weather after two day of wind/rain/hail storms, the worst in the history of Romania. Blew out windows and trees broke in half. Many accidents on the 8 hours car ride to the mountains. We had to stop many times until either the weather calmed or they scraped bodies and cars off the road in front of us. Luckily we had food and drink and could huddle under porches and eat. We all thought the concerts would be washed out and we'd drown ourselves, however ... balmy night. The band played for three hours and some. The audience would not let them go. They were supposed to open the show for 20 minutes. People were dancing, singing and orgasming all over the place, just wonderful. As therapeutic as therapy. Fab. But... “Just to be with people I like is enough.” Walt Whitman Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange NEW PSYCHODRAMA BOOKS Autobiography of J.L. Moreno JACOB LEVY MORENO Lulu Prints, 2011 The Autobiography of J.L. Moreno is maybe one of the less well known Moreno texts, as previously it has only been published in small numbers and less widely circulated than the other key Moreno books. This abridged version of the autobiography was first edited together by Moreno’s son, Jonathan, and published in the ASGPP Journal of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy in 1989. It was Greg Tomeoni who later undertook two further editions in book format, and later allowed the North-West Psychodrama Association to publish this new edition, after it having been revised and re-edited by Zerka T. Moreno. As all autobiographies, this book also offers interesting insight into the life of the father of psychodrama, covering his early years in Romania and Vienna, as well as his later life in the USA. Together with fascinating life events, the book also gives us some understanding of how Moreno’s philosophy has developed in the context of the war-torn early 20th century Europe and how these ideas were then later taken and further developed in the US. I would recommend this book as an interesting a helpful additional reading to all interested in psychodrama and the philosophical ideas underpinning it. http://bit.ly/q667pX Psychodrama – Second Volume Foundations of Psychotherapy JACOB LEVY MORENO & ZERKA T. MORENO Lulu Prints, 2011 This is the fifth title in the new Moreno-series edited and published by the North-West Psychodrama Association. It is the second volume of Moreno’s three books specially focused on psychodrama, originally written in 1959 and published at the time at Beacon House. Moreno co-authored this book with Zerka T. Moreno. There are also various other contributors to the book, leading contemporary professionals of Moreno (such as Franz Alexander, Gordon Allport, Serge Lebovici, only to mention a few), who’s comments and discussions of Moreno’s texts significantly enrich this book, by introducing valuable and eye-opening arguments of Moreno’s theory and practice. The book is organised into six chapters/lectures, each addressing different aspects of the psychodrama theory and technique. The first lecture focuses on transference, counter-transference and tele, and the relationship of these three concepts. The second lecture looks at interpersonal therapy, group psychotherapy and the function of the unconscious. Lecture three discusses the significance of the therapeutic format and the place of acting out in psychotherapy. Lecture four is the discovery of the spontaneous man, with special emphasis on the technique of role reversal. In lecture five, entitled the “psychodrama of Adolf Hitler“, Moreno describes his interesting psycho- sociodramatic work with a delusional patient. And finally, lecture six looks at existentialism, daseinsanalyse and psychodrama, with special emphasis on existential validation. This book is a valuable reading for all psychodrama trainees, as well as already qualified practitioners, wishing to further their understanding of the Morenian method and philosophy. Together with other key texts written by Moreno, the book is available both in print and download format on the www.lulu.com website. Zoli Figusch - series editor figusch@hotmail.com http://bit.ly/pdqF6w Sociodrama in a Changing World Editors: RON WIENER, DI ADDERELY, KATE KIRK Lulu Prints, 2011 Sociodrama in a Changing World is an attempt to bring sociodrama more into focus in the early decades of the 21st century and more into the foreground as one of Moreno’s numerous methods of achieving change throughout the world. We have gathered contributions from many corners of the globe – Brazil, America, Canada, Australia, Greece, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Argentina, Israel, Norway, Finland, Italy, Portugal, Russia and the British Isles. Our 37 authors explore what’s going on in different countries and show the amazing variety of ways that sociodrama and action methods are used to bring understanding of, and change to, group situations. The book is divided loosely into four sections. In Section I, we present So What is Sociodrama? – a wide-ranging group of chapters giving clearly delineated, and yet very different, theoretical perspectives and examples of sociodrama practice. In Section II, Sociodrama in Cross-Cultural Work, practitioners bring examples from around the globe of their use of the method in international work, particularly in relation to easing conflicts and developing understanding of (and connection with) the ‘other’, the ‘enemy’, those who are ‘not like us’. In Section III, Sociodrama in Organisations, the focus is predominantly on the sociodramatist in organisational training and consultancy contexts, such as training for management and leadership, or team building. And finally, Section IV, Sociodrama in Education features some examples of the use of sociodrama in the field of school, university and other professional training contexts. Where psychodrama ends and sociodrama begins is much discussed. Do they need to be seen as separate entities or are they part of the same process? This discussion takes up much of the first section of the book. In part, this is due to the training regimes in different countries. Whereas much of Europe and North America separate psycho- and sociodrama, Australia, New Zealand, South America and some southern European countries see the two methods as equally important, complementary specialisms deriving from the same rootstock, and this is reflected in how they organise their training. Again, where does sociodrama sit on the wider spectrum of the use of drama as a change agent, including the methodologies of dramatherapy, Boal’s forum and Fox’s playback theatre? In addition, the generic term ‘action methods’ covers a wide number of techniques – doubling, sculpting, role reversal etc. – all of which are common to both psychodrama and sociodrama. Ron Wiener - editor ron@ronwiener.co.uk http://bit.ly/qIa3tP Content for FEPTO Newsletter 11.3 . Norwegian Moreno Institute . Oslo, the next FEPTO host . Psychodrama in Norway . Presentation of new institutes . Program for the Oslo AM . Empowerment and Resilience . A meeting in Innsbruck . Psychodrama on the European stage . First International Souldrama Conference . New psychodrama books Members of the Newsletter Committee: Chair: HORATIU NIL ALBINI (Romania), horatiu.albini@live.com NORBERT APTER (Switzerland), norbert.apter@odef.ch Photos: courtesy of MARCO GRECO, GABRIELA MOITA, JUDITH HILDE G.TT (Germany), hildegoett@t.online.de TESZ.RY, YAACOV NAOR, CLAUDIA M.HLBAUER, MARCIA KARP WILMA SCATEGNI (Italy), wilma.scategni@fastwebnet.it DENIZ ALTINAY and ALBINI HORATIU NIL PETER JOHN SCHOUTEN (Netherlands), peterjohn@psychodrama.nu Edited by: CRISTINA MARIA BULIGA and HORATIU NIL ALBINI