| Cassidy, Reitu; Close, Helen; Howard, Katherine; McCoy, Nikki; Merhtens, Jean; Pelvin, Bronwen |
Magical writing (PDF, 234.5 KB) |
Journal 33 December 2024 |
auxiliary, director, love, protagonist, role, soul |
“Now that’s the book I want to read!”. These words spoken by Geneen Marie Haugen at the “Writing the Wild Soul” workshop in November 2017 activated a sequence of roles in me over the following years. Geneen is a well-known poet writer who lives on the west coast of America — she had come to Australia to run this 4-day residential workshop. Geneen spoke these words in response to my reading of a piece of writing I had completed in the workshop, “a Letter to my Beloved”. |
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2024-12 |
| Howard, Katherine |
The Dance of Relationship: Using Moreno in Workplace Injury Rehabilitation (PDF, 90.2 KB) |
Journal 20 December 2011 |
coaching, creativity, cultural conserve, doubling, injury, mirroring, modelling, Moreno, Psychodrama, rehabilitation, role, role relationship, role reversal, role training, spontaneity, warm up, workplace |
Katherine Howard explores the use of Moreno's methods in what has become, in Morenian terms, a robotic workplace injury rehabilitation system. Presenting two case studies as illustration, she employs the metaphor of the dance of relationship to capture the way in which psychodramatic techniques transform difference and conflict into mutuality and cooperation, habitual coping roles into fluid and progressive functioning. This article is adapted from the author's 2010 Australian and New Zealand Psychodrama Association (ANZPA) accreditation thesis, Spontaneity and Creativity at Work: The Application of Morenian Methods in Workplace Injury Management. |
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2011-12 |
| Howard, Katherine |
Psychodrama: Descendant of the Shamans (PDF, 676.3 KB) |
Journal 24 December 2015 |
Psychodrama, shamanism |
I have come to view shamanism as a predecessor of psychodrama: an ancestor. Perhaps shamanism lives in psychodrama, and psychodrama in shamanism. Perhaps they are siblings. Psychodrama and shamanism live inside me, intertwined and side by side, intimately connected. This is my world, my world view. This article is an exploration of the links between psychodrama and shamanism. As a beginning, I invite you to journey with me on a vision quest. This will serve as a grounding for later discussions. |
11 |
2015-12 |
