| Rock, Cissy |
Taking sociodrama to the streets (PDF, 349.6 KB) |
Journal 33 December 2024 |
audience, directed, enactment, experience, Fringe, group, impact, insight, method, people, role reversal, sociodrama, systems |
I wanted a fresh approach. My public sociodrama sessions of the last three years tended to attract low numbers Flicking through The Impromptu Man I came across the cartoon by John Wilcock where Moreno is directing Woody Allen on stage. I was enamoured, a fizziness in my body at the thought of an audience exposed to the method and being enthralled by their experience. That was when the seed was planted. I could run such a session. I could attract more participants. I too could have an audience enthralled by their experience of the method. |
| Synnot, Elizabeth |
Praxis: Using psychodrama methodology to respond to the existential threat of climate change (PDF, 109.5 KB) |
Journal 32 December 2023 |
climate change, creativity, environment, modelling, Moreno, Psychodrama, research, sociodrama, systems theory |
What follows is the backdrop of climate change that affects all life on planet Earth. As a sociodramatist, at times, I work directly with this existential threat. I have found that research is needed to be able to direct a sociodrama on a general topic of ‘What matters today?’ or more directly on ‘Responding to climate change with hope and agency’. The content presented here is correct in 2023. As you’d expect the science refines each year. |
| Rock, Cissy |
Embodying a Creative Revolution: A Sociodramatist at Work (PDF, 96.9 KB) |
Journal 31 December 2022 |
as if, community development, creativity, encounter, God, health, mirroring, Moreno, playback theatre, relationship, role, sociodrama, sociometry, spontaneity, systems theory, warm up |
This article explores Moreno’s notion of sociatry and the required creative revolution that involves everyone in the healing of society (Moreno, 1947). It will appeal to anyone wanting to work sociodramatically or wanting to get to know about Moreno’s concepts of sociatry and creative revolution. It is also relevant for anyone working with principles of social justice, equity, dignity, diversity and inclusion. |
| Hutt, Jenny |
Perspectives on Racism (PDF, 233.6 KB) |
Journal 30 December 2021 |
anti-racism, aversive racism, Gordon Allport, J L Moreno, legalised racism, racism, socialisation, sociodrama, systemic racism, unconscious bias |
Introduction This article is about racism. My interest was prompted by a study group to focus on the history of the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other Australians, which I wrote about in this Journal (Hutt, 2018). This work made apparent to me the racism embedded in our history. I wanted to learn more about racism: where it comes from, why it is still prevalent today and how it can be transformed. I began with a search of literature on contemporary social research and anti-racism practice, and along the way discovered the contribution to this field of J.L. Moreno, the founder of psychodrama, and some of his influential contemporaries. This article presents my findings. |
| Heriot, Anna |
Three Ceremonies: Sociodrama In Situ (PDF, 152.2 KB) |
Journal 29 December 2020 |
ceremony, doubling, J L Moreno, mirroring, social atom repair, sociodrama, spontaneity |
Introduction: Integration of sociodrama into my being I respond somatically to completing my written and practice tasks for my final accreditation. Experiencing myself cellularly as enlivened and buoyed, I am able to sink down into the ocean of my life and work fearlessly, then bob up again, corklike, lightly and joyfully. My confidence, strangely, also feels unsinkable: another completely new experience. I remember Max Clayton looking at me in one memorable moment and saying, “You’re alright you know.” I heard him and believed him, but I didn’t feel it. Now I do. I begin to present myself as a sociodramatist, one who works with the whole group and different subgroups. I know I offer them, and they actively receive, something of real value. I feel the reverberations as I work. |
| Browne, Rollo; Parry, Warren |
Sociodramatic principles and big data in organisational change (PDF, 337.0 KB) |
Journal 25 December 2016 |
family system, organisational consulting, social system, sociodrama |
Warren recently published Big Change Best Path, a book on his work on leading organisational change. In this interview, he discusses change, his research, the links to sociodrama and psychodrama and the principles that underlie his practice. Warren was centrally involved in psychodrama from 1976 and pioneered the development of sociodrama becoming a TEP in Sociodrama in 1986. Warren subsequently set up his own consulting business, and developed ChangeTracking to assist leaders to implement change programs successfully. In 2013, ChangeTracking joined Accenture who have since used the proprietary method in large scale change initiatives. Big Change Best Path was published by Kogan Page in 2015. |
| Boreman, Cinnamon; Turner, Sandra |
The Moving Forward Project: Reflecting on the Efficacy of Sociodrama and Playback Theatre in Addressing Family Violence (PDF, 184.6 KB) |
Journal 21 December 2012 |
domestic violence, family violence, playback theatre, Psychodrama, sociodrama |
The Moving Forward Project is a collective endeavour established in Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand to address family violence. It aims to raise awareness of the subtleties, complexities and systemic nature of domestic violence, reduce isolation for those affected by it, promote healing and strengthen moves towards change. In this article, facilitators Sandra Turner and Cinnamon Boreham describe the project's pilot programme. They discuss the way that, in designing the programme, they matched the systemic nature of family violence with the systemic perspectives of sociodrama and playback theatre. The authors also present the programme's participants and evaluation research undertaken with them at the programme's close. |
| Kearins, Helen |
History on a Bus: Using sociodrama to address racism and reconciliation (PDF, 176.8 KB) |
Journal 21 December 2012 |
Aboriginal Australians, racism, reconciliation, sociodrama, warm up, White Australians |
In Sydney's Redfern Park on the 10th of December 1992, the launch of the International Year of Indigenous People, the then Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating delivered a ground breaking speech that gave great hope to people working for reconciliation with Aboriginal Australians. One of those inspired to continue this work, Helen Kearins developed a workshop that assists participants to own racism and move beyond it towards genuine reconciliation with Aboriginal people. In this article, adapted from her 2011 AANZPA Accreditation thesis, she demonstrates the efficacy of sociodrama in this work. |
| Seligman, Katerina |
Responses to the Threat of Climate Change: A Sociodramatic Exploration (PDF, 82.8 KB) |
Journal 20 December 2011 |
climate change, environment, global warming, Moreno, Psychodrama, role reversal, sociodrama, subgroups |
Katerina Seligman describes a sociodrama undertaken during a residential psycho- drama workshop, whereby sociodramatic questions regarding the global threat of climate change were posed, and a range of subgroup responses were explored. She begins with her personal story of exploration regarding climate change to warm the reader up to the sociodramatic enactment that follows. The author describes the way in which the enactment facilitated role reversal and a deepening of the understanding of conflicting values in relation to climate change. |
| Reekie, Don |
Healing Rifts: Sociodrama in a Maternity Community (PDF, 91.7 KB) |
Journal 20 December 2011 |
communication, crisis management, hospital, lead maternity carer, midwifery, obstetrics, organisation, psychodramatic methods, role training, sociodrama |
Don Reekie was contracted by a New Zealand District Health Board to facilitate the healing of rifts among practitioners in a hospital maternity community. In this article he describes the efficacy of sociodrama in this work, particularly focusing on his decisions and interventions, and the responses of the participants involved. Reference is made to community members' written attestations regarding the positive ongoing consequences of the sociodramatic interventions. The author particularly acknowledges the community members and key players among them, as co-creators of a new maternity culture. |
