Welcome back to Socio. As discussed at conference, Socio is now sitting inside the Anzpa website and we are in the process of making it password protected - but this has not happened yet. However, in the meantime, mindful of members’ privacy, we have made it it less easily found through search engines. I hope you enjoy this edition.
Warmly, Gillian ( Socio Editor)
Sorry Socio was out of action for so long. A number of things happened and you really don’t want the grim and rather boring technical details. The end result is that we have moved the whole ANZPA website, including Socio, from the ISP Internode to our new ISP Dreamhost. Cheers, Simon (ANZPA Webperson) (27 March, 2009)
by Judy Broom
He tangata, he tangata, he tangata. It is people, it is people, it is people.
The 2009 conference was held in Dunedin – the first time the Otago & Southland ANZPA branch had hosted the conference. When we agreed to do this originally, many of us felt some degree of trepidation – would we be strong enough to do host a conference? Did we have the roles required? But we did agree, knowing that we were well supported by the Exec and the Association. (more…)
The text of the plenary Conference Address by Dr José Fonseca, Exclusion-Inclusion in the Life and Work of J. L. Moreno
by Peter Howie
As President of this Association I keep my eye on the larger stage. Two recent pieces of writing I have become familiar with. One is a poem written by leaders of the Hopi tribe in the North America. In this writing they exhort us to know that:
“The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word “struggle” from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for.”
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We would love to hear about your conference experiences. Please feel free to add your “comments” below.
by Jocelyn Phiskie
What to say? What an experience! I’m still trying to process the whole experience. There is a lot to it I’m finding. I was able to fully have all that was in me at the ANZPA conference in January when I graduated. (more…)
by Judith McDonald
Despite thinking a lot about writing a “little something” for Socio about having completed my psychodrama assessment, I have struggled with generating anything. The experience seemed too big and personal somehow to write about easily, or briefly. I’ve come to the conclusion that the process associated with my assessment was bit like that of birth. (more…)
by Ali Watersong
My warmup to being assessed as a psychodramatist has been a long journey over many years - at times difficult, at times exhilarating. Having completed all the requirements to conduct a practical assessment, my last few weeks of leading up to November 5th, 2008, became a focussed, intense and challenging time. (more…)
by Peter Howie
On the 26th of November last year Tim Gartside surrendered his connection with this mortal coil. Tim had a way with words and I think he would have enjoyed that sentence. In more common language we might say ‘he died’. Tim had a particularly nasty cancer that he was diagnosed with earlier in the year.
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by Robin Loan
As I read Peter Howie’s words of our dear friend and colleague Tim Gartside, I am especially drawn to the part about Tim being ‘committed to all sorts of remarkable things’. I am remembering that most of all Tim was committed to his family and friends. He was totally committed, and continually working to find new depths and disciplines in himself to deepen those commitments, repair and rebuild fractured relationships, become more empathetic and selfless. (more…)
by Sue Christie
Caz Palmer died on 29 December 08, following a diagnosis ten months earlier of cancer. Caz has been a psychodrama trainee and therapeutic practitioner within ANZPA Northern for many years. She never wavered on her quest to find meaning and understanding for what was happening on her soul’s journey. She was a true light to all who had the privilege to witness her last months and years. She demonstrated fierce determination, a beautifully loving heart and was a celebrator of life as she moved towards her final days . (more…)
Fourteen of the ANZP ASA community gathered around the dinner table to be with and celebrate Rob having being made an ‘Honorary Distinguished Member of ANZPA’ . (more…)
by Phillip Corbett
The whole Victorian region is breathing a collective sigh of relief as we welcome the return of cool weather with accompanying blessed rain at last. There had been no rain at all since after Christmas and some really hot spells of weather in the mid forties drying out the land and the bush culminating in the nightmare day on 7th of February. On that day the winds were gusting at over 100kms per hour with a furnace like temperature of 46 degrees and very soon fires took hold in many parts of Victoria. The skies were blacked out by smoke and blackened charred leaves rained from the sky. (more…)
by Phillip Corbett
Conference Reflections
Local ANZPA members who were part of the large contingent of Melbournians who travelled to Dunedin have spoken highly of their experience. People mentioned feeling very welcomed and very well looked after by the conference organizers and generally enjoyed the warmth of the exchanges with ANZPA folk from all round the world. (more…)
by Fiona Body
On the 1st March a gathering of ANZPA Northern colleagues got together for a Farmers Market shared lunch. Over 25 people made the trip out to the country, which was a source of great satisfaction to the committee, and feels like a third Farmers Market lunch will be planned for next year following the Sydney conference in 2010!
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by Walter Logerman
Recently, Walter became reacquainted with this article, originally written in January, 1987. For the full backstory visit Walter’s blog.
Just prior to running a social skills group I had been reflecting on Gregory Bateson’s ideas about the nature of information and new responses and how that might relate to Moreno’s notion of spontaneity. (more…)
Thanks to Jenny Wilson for finding Mario Cossa on YouTube “with a great little model psychodrama theatre explaining psychodrama surprisingly clearly to a TV audience (because explaining psychodrama to a completely naive person seems quite difficult to me and yet he does it so well)”.
For information about International Psychodrama Events visit FEPTO Website calendar, managed by Dr Horatio Albini.
