More information about some of the presentations and workshops
Budde, Judith – Working with Psychodrama in Business Training
In this workshop you will see and experience how we work with (short) forms of drama in teambuilding and in business training. You will see several drama forms and get a taste of the possibilities. We will also talk about the conditions that have to be met, when working with drama in this context.
At the end of the workshop you will be able to use some of these methods in your own practice and you will hopefully be inspired to come up with new varieties yourself.
Drs. Judith Budde is director of the conference and training centre Het Balkon (www.hetbalkon.nl) in the Netherlands. Since 1987 she is working as a business trainer and coach (management, empowerment, teambuilding). Since 1997 she is also teaching trainers and coaches to use Psychodrama and Voice Dialogue in the business context. Together with her colleague Lex Mulder she wrote the book Drama in bedrijf, about working with drama methods in training and coaching (Thema, 2006, ISBN 978 90 5871 087 1).
De Graaf, Tjeerd en Luijkx, Kristel – Selves at Work
Voice drama (by Lex Mulder) is the synthesis of voice dialogue (Hall and Sidra Stone) and Psychodrama (Moreno). It is a sportive mix that appears to be a very powerful drama technique in working with daily life and work situations. In voice drama your inner world – your inner voices (selves) playing their part in the situation your working with – is coming out on the floor, played by the members of the group. It is creating space room to move within your inner world.
Different kinds of work require different kinds of professional attitudes. These professional attitudes often tend to perform like a most important self. Professional selve(s) in fact are clusters of strong subs. They seem to be in charge to repulse other selves whom are not allowed to be seen in work situations.
Often these repulsed selves at work are a big taboo. Yet you have to be aware of them, look them in the eyes. You need to allow them to say what they want to say. That is the way to make inner room to move and feel free in al kinds of work situations.
In this workshop we introduce a voice drama way in comprehending these inner (professional) selves at work.
Tjeerd de Graaf studied nursery, theology, training and coaching. He is running his own business as an independent trainer/coach, specialised in physical and social care. Tjeerd studied coaching, psychodrama, voice-dialogue en voice-drama and he prefers an active way of working with groups.
Kristel Luyckx studied social sciences and women studies. She is working as a lecturer and supervisor at the EHSAL college for social work and as a trainer/coach she is educated in drama techniques and ‘Theme Centred Interaction’.
De Inocencio, Roberto – My Scene With The Eleftheries & Then and Now: Some Years Later
In this storytelling session, Roberto de Inocencio will dwell on and tell us of his experiences with our teachers couple over the years. Not to feed nostalgia, but to remind overt and hidden peculiarities.
De Jonge, Mark & Salomé, Hannah – Integrative Roles in Action
Emotions as a source of intelligence. How to use psychodrama as a method for mentalization.
Hannah Salomé and Mark de Jonge are the spiritual heirs of a famous Dutch school for psychodrama founded by Adeline Salomé Finkelstein. They successfully run the Academie voor Psychodrama en Groepsprocessen in Arnhem (www.academiepsychodrama.com).
De Laat, Pierre – Psychodrama in Parallel Processes and Supervision
Psychodrama offers ideal therapeutic conditions for revising sociometrical programs (see: PdL in Studies). Psychodrama is applied in psychotherapy and training. In supervision, psychodrama offers an elegant method to explore relationships, attitudes, pitfalls, contaminations and other therapist-bound problems, like (counter-) transference, in working alliances. The P-D-frame is: exploring the Social Atom of the therapist / supervisand and his group or client, in relation to (parts of) his own Internal Atom.
De Laat, Pierre – Psychodrama and Modelling
Psychodrama offers ideal therapeutic conditions for revising sociometrical programs. (See: PdL in 'Studies'). Psychodrama is applied in psychotherapy and training. In supervision, psychodrama offers an elegant method to explore relationships, attitudes, pitfalls, contaminations and other therapist-bound problems, like (counter-) transference, in working alliances. The P-D-frame is: exploring the Social Atom of the therapist / supervisand and his group or client, in relation to (parts of) his own Internal Atom (Workshop on Friday).
Strictly speaking, 'Modelling' is a classic technique from behaviour therapy, founded on disinhibition and vicarious extinction. Psychodrama is a method that can perfectly be applied to work with modelling techniques, as will be shown in the Saturday workshop.
Pierre de Laat is a (retired) psychiatrist, trained by Adeline Salomé-Finkelstein and Dean and Doreen Elefthery. He has worked in a mental hospital in Nijmegen (NL) with psychodrama in treatment programs for people with personality disorders. Qualified TEP (Dutch-Belgian Board), he works as a trainer, educationer and supervisor. In 2005 he published a book on psychodrama, in which he connects psychodrama theory with neurobiology.
Fontaine, Pierre en Lap-Streur, Marjorie – Laboratory for Experimental Doubling
Bring us your special and different ways of doubling. Tell and show us how you do it. Let us experience how it feels and what is the difference.
We can bring :
– doubles from different places: from behind (inner voice) / doubling in and doubling out / talking with your double / double in front of you / the double as older brother or as scapegoat (Anzieu)
– the multiple doubles (the different doubles in you): my different roles / my ambivalence / the sphinx in you SuperEgo, Ego, Id (P. Weil) etc.
Pierre Fontaine (1924) Prof. Emer. of Child and Family Psychiatry at the Univ. of Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium (Fac. Psycho) trained by Anne Schützenberger (1957) and later D & D Elefthery. Psychodrama trainer since 1964. Co-founder and Vice President of FEPTO (Fed. Eur. PD Training Org.).
Marjorie Lap-Streur (1951) Family and relation therapist. Consultant/trainer for organisations. Trained in psychodrama by Dean & Doreen Elefthery. Psychodrama trainer since 1982. Works with individuals, families, groups and companies.
Koper, Peter en Fons – Psychodrama: Acting-in & Acting-out
Psychodrama session. 'Going back to basics', as Doreen used to say. Peter en Fons Koper perform a classic 'Eleftherian' psychodrama.
Peter and Fons Koper are brothers. Peter is a Jesuit, pastor, and psychosynthesis psychotherapist. He has his own practice. Fons is an andragologist and has worked as a manager of an institution for ambulant mental health care. Since his retirement he coaches young executives.
Lap, Jan & Marjorie – Psychodrama and ‘The Book’, existential psychodrama
Suffering and passion, giving meaning to life, faith and embitterment, all this in confrontation with the stories, texts and persons in the Book of all books. Through psychodrama in a biblical context your own life may shed a new light on what the Bible tells us. On the other hand texts from the Bible may clarify the choices you make. Either way may lead to insight, liberation and catharsis.
Jan Lap, pastoral theology, group dynamics and supervision, combined with psychodrama since 1978. Jan & Marjorie, both trained by Dean & Doreen, run together an institute for psychodrama education, with a special department for bibliodrama: ‘Het Dean-huis’.
Marjorie Lap-Streur is director of the institute LapStreur Social Engineering (www.lapstreur.nl). Studied case work, family and relation therapy (VO, Nijmegen) and Public Administration (UvA). Psychodrama trainer since 1982. Works with individuals, families and organisational systems.
Mulder, Lex en Collewijn, Berry – Voicedrama: the application of the Psychology of Selves in Psychodrama
In this workshop, Lex Mulder and Barry Collewijn will work with the group to let us experience the gentle power of the synthesis they make of voice dialogue and psychodrama.
Lex Mulder (1944) worked at the department of clinical psychology at the University of Leiden. Since twenty years he has a private practice for coaching, training and psychotherapy. He introduced successfully psychodrama and psychotherapy in the field of management training. Since 1980 he runs psychodrama training groups for psychotherapists, trainers and coaches. He is co-author of Oefeningenboek voor groepen en Drama in bedrijf.
Berry Collewijn studied at the Amsterdam School of Drama to become a director. Since 1993 she received education in voice dialogue (Hal & Sidra Stone), psychodrama (Lex Mulder) and the synthesis of both, voicedrama. Berry is working together with Lex and Judith Budde in the professional training groups, in which they teach trainers and coaches to use psychodrama in business contexts. She is an independent trainer/coach. Specialised in management- and personal effectiveness programs, in which she successfully works with the drama techniques and voice dialogue.
Nève-Hanquet, Chantal - 'Landscape genogram', culture experience and identity
The 'landscape genogram' concept originates from the practice of Chantal Nève-Hanquet and Jacques Pluymaekers, therapists and trainers. It gives a creative representation by words, imaginations and graphical and/or psychodramatic representations of certain crucial moments, that are called up when exploring one 's genogram. So people can express their cultural differences by pictures, words and movements. In a 'landscape genogram', one can find parts of his or her family story and culture, which is meaningful for the sense of being. When used in psychodrama, the landscape genogram creates a space that allows people to experience life changes by him- or herself and others. (The workshop will be given in French and translated in English or Dutch by P. Fontaine.)
Chantal Nève-Hanquet is a psychologist, Jungian psychoanalyst and teaching member of the IAAP-affiliated SBPA; a psychodrama trainer at the CFIP; treasurer of the FEPTO; trainer in systemic family therapy at the IPFS in Namur; member of the EFTA. She is a training officer in two schools for education of special-needs teachers, one in Namur and the other in Mirwart. She is the author of several articles.
Pancheri, Elvira – Psychodrama with Adolescents: Between Moreno and Psychoanalysis
Elvira Pancheri will present a power point presentation in which she reflects on the complementarities and the differences between Moreno’s therapeutic approach and that of psycho-analysis. She will illustrate this by showing the ‘psychotherapeutic couple’ in action with a group of adolescents.
Elvira Pancheri is an Italian Psychologist. She has been training in psychodrama with Pierre Fontaine in Leuven (1967-1970). From 1973, working as a psychotherapist /family therapist in Lausanne Hopital de Cery with Prof. Luc Kaufmann. From 1979 until today private practice in Lausanne as psychotherapist and psychodramatist for adolescents.
Stephenson, Craig – Possessed By a Complex or a Role Conserve: The Complementary Psychotherapeutic Practices of Jung and Moreno (lecture)
Craig Stephenson compares and contrasts two Western psychotherapeutic approaches in which the concept of possession functions: C.G. Jung’s active imagination and Jacob Moreno’s psychodrama: Jung’s notion of possession by a complex to Moreno's notion of loss of spontaneous self in a role conserve. He emphasizes the complementarity between their practices in terms of temenos, mimesis, and synthesis.
Craig Stephenson, Ph.D. is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institut Zurich and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He trained as a psychodrama practitioner first with Helmut and Ellynor Barz at their Institut für Psychodrama auf der Grundlage der Jungschen Psychologie and then with Doreen Elefthery. He is a Jungian analyst and psychodramatist in private practice in Paris, France.
Tauvon, Lars – Nonverbal Ways of Working with Tele in the Group
This is an experiential workshop where we investigate nonverbal tools and expression forms. Especially with mixed language groups, with which one is often confronted in international workshops, the use of body expressions, music, pictures etc. constitute good warm ups and can be main features in the drama.
Lars Tauvon is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in private practice. Member and co-founder of Stockholm Institute for Psychodrama, Sociodrama and Group Psychotherapy. Board Member, Swedish Psychodrama Association. Co-Editor of Forum, The Journal of IAGP and of the Swedish Psychodrama Journal. Trained with Dean and Doreen Elefthery, Ann Schützenberger, Leif-Dag Blomkvist.
Verhofstadt-Denève, Leni – Psychodrama with Children: A Phenomenological-Dialectic View
Co-author Moira Verhofstadt (interactive lecture with Powerpoint presentation)
Action with the Children’s Psychodrama-Puppets Kit is theoretically based on the Phenomenological-Dialectic Personality Model. Children can personally identify themselves and their significant others through the choice of the cloths, wigs and mouths for each puppet. The therapist also dresses a puppet for her/himself. All dialogues between the child protagonist and others (incl. director) goes through the symbolic puppets (less confronting and more playful). Using this method all basic psychodramatical techniques (role taking, role reversal, doubling, mirroring...) can playfully be used. This is real psychodrama with young children. The application, following a semi-directive protocol will be demonstrated through the work with two children (6 and 11 years).
Leni Verhofstadt-Denève (PhD) is professor em. in Theoretical and Clinical Developmental Psychology at the University of Ghent, Belgium and since October 2007 co-ordinator of a Postgraduate Training in Psychodrama at the University of Antwerp; trained a.o. by Dean & Doreen Elefthery; International psychodrama trainer (TEP/The Netherlands-Belgium Board); Founder of the School for Experiential-Dialectical Psychodrama, Merelbeke, Belgium.
Verhofstadt, Moira – Psychodrama with Children
In this workshop the Children's Psychodrama-Puppets Kit will be demonstrated with participants playing the children. We will try to follow the different stages of the semi-directive protocol mentioned in the theoretical lecture (by Leni Verhofstadt-Denève). This action method makes it possible to externalise the child's multiple self-other-constructions and the internal self-dialogues. Moreover, those actions can be understood as an intense situational-affective experience of dialectic oppositions, in which emotions, actions, cognitions, language and effective learning can be integrated.
Moira Verhofstadt is Certified Practitioner Psychodrama (CP/The Netherlands-Belgium Board) and founder of the Centre of Psychodrama & Psychotherapy, Pittem, Belgium.
Trained a.o. by Dean & Doreen Elefthery; She practises psychodrama therapy with sexual delinquents and with detainees and organizes regularly psychodrama training and supervision sessions.
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