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The AGPA 2010 Meeting Theme: "A New Decade: Sustaining our World through Groups" February 22-27, 2010 Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina

Action Speaks Louder... BPA (British Psychodrama Association) Conference this coming year will be held on Friday 25th – Sunday 27th June 2010, at the Royal Agricultural College Cirencester.
The theme is: Action Speaks Louder.

In this article, first published in the British Journal of Psychodrama in 2006, Joseph Moreno reflects on both his father and more famous uncle, J.L. Moreno, and on his own introduction to psychodrama.

A history of two brothers
In all that has been written about Jacob Moreno, his life and contributions, the significance of his relationship with his brother, William, appears largely overlooked. For example, in Marineau’s (1989) otherwise informative biography, in regard to William he states only that “he was the first Levy to emigrate to the United States. A great admirer of his brother Jacob, he helped him financially in Vienna, and than in New York.” True enough, but this scant reference tells us little about a life-long association that was complex, and one that had a profound impact on both men’s lives, as well as my own.

by Phillip Corbett

Conference Reflections
Local ANZPA members who were part of the large contingent of Melbournians who traveled 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.

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.

by Annie Currie

During 1999 I spent some time in the village of Linton on the north coast of Devon. I had ventured there to spend a couple of weeks training with Marcia Karp in her beautifully appointed hillside residence overlooking the Bristol Channel.

During those weeks I was particularly drawn to two Swedish women, Birgitta Lindholm, a family therapist and Cecilia Berge a psychodramatist. We greatly enjoyed each others company during workshop times and in between.

Over the intervening years, I keep contact with them and was invited by them last year to visit Sweden and do a little work whilst I was there.

A recommendation from Erica Hollander:

"Anyone interested in psychodrama may be interested in this startling and moving video talk about the experience of having a stroke from a Harvard neuroanatomist, Dr Jill Bolte Taylor, who was recently named one of Time Magazines 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2008."

Contents:

• British Psychodrama Association Conference 2009
• The 17th IAGP Congress, Rome 2009
• "Invitation To Encounter: Meet Me In St Louis" ASGPP 2009
• Second International Sociodrama Conference Finland, Sweden 2009
• FEPTO website