Facing Ourselves, Facing the World, Facing Each Other:
Psychodrama, Spontaneity, & Creativity

Ed Schreiber & Adam Barcroft

   

Sep 28-30, 2007

Psychodrama is the revolutionary healing methods created by Dr. J.L. Moreno, a psychiatrist and contemporary of Freud, Jung, and Adler, and his wife and collaborator, Zerka Moreno. Zerka is now 90 and continues to teach and train students around the world, 32 years after J.L. Moreno's death. Two of her former students are Ed and Adam.

Psychodrama helps people discover and strengthen a state of mind, body, and spirit called spontaneity and creativity or, as a friend has called it, spontaneous presence. This workshop is about tapping this creative vitality and touching its vastness. When we tap into this healing source, we experience the very heart and essence of this extraordinary method.

Psychodrama offers powerful tools that enable us to live our lives more fully. These tools activate the creative energy within and between us – offering a way to see ourselves and others with greater clarity, authenticity, and presence. The foundation of the psychodramatic method is the existential energy in its integrity, found within our own experience.

We are living in a world calling to us to respond to enormous changes. We offer tools to address this social reality. We invite you to experience this wellspring of the creative force manifesting within us and within the group. We can heal the past, address the present, and find inspiration for the future. This workshop is appropriate for both personal growth and professional development.

Ed Schreiber is the Director of the Moreno Institute East and the Zerka T. Moreno Foundation for Education and Training in Western Massachusetts. An adjunct faculty member at Lesley University, he is co-editor of The Quintessential Zerka: Writings by Zerka T. Moreno on Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy. He has distilled the essence of Moreno’s work into formulas that are exceptionally user friendly, simple, and actually useable in our lives. Wonders never cease. An environmentalist, activist, and master addiction counselor, he has spent many years working to help people live fully, even in the face of dying.

Adam Barcroft is the Associate Director of the Moreno Institute East and has trained for several years at the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Training Institute. He is currently collaborating on a book on Sociodrama and Sociatry with Rosalie Minkin and Ed Schreiber.

"We know from psychodrama that the greatest depth of catharsis comes not merely from re-enactment of the past, however traumatic or instructive, but from embodying those dimensions, roles, scenes, and inter-actions . . . [that] life has not permitted, cannot permit, and probably never will permit . . . that the catharsis of action, both individual and group, is achieved in its purest form." -- Zerka Moreno