Workshops by Margarida Belchior

“PROJECT DISCOVERING LANGUAGES OF PEACE”

PRESENTERS: JANA DAMJANOV – MARIOLINA WERNER – MARGARIDA BELCHIOR

Sociodrama and power

DATE AND TIME: 27th of June, Thursday 14:00-16:30
CONFERENCE TOPIC: Sociodrama and social healing – recovery from collective crises and collective trauma
TYPE: Action Symposium
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NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 50
TAGS: Social Healing, June27 Afternoon

ABSTRACT:

In this Symposium we will present the project “Discovering the Languages of Peace ” and the book that resulted from it. This project was funded by ERASMUS + Programm (EU). The methodological path chosen was based on the sociopsychodrama methodology and the participants were professionals that work with marginalized young people in countries from former Yugoslavia region (Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzgovina) and Scandinavia (Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway). This project lasted for one year in which we developed twelve online workshops in the form of 3 hour webinars and a 5 day Spring School in presence, at the University of Zadar (Croatia). The aim of the project was to contribute to the transformation of conflicted communities and societies, healing traumas and building long term peace by increasing the competencies of the professionals and practitioners.

Learning objectives:
to know more about sociopsychodrama and the theoretical framework underpinning it and
to learn more about the work of professionals working with discriminated and marginalized groups

References:
Damjanov, J., and Westberg, M. (Ed.) (2023). Discovering Languages of Peace – Handbook of Sociopsychodrama. University of Zadar. https://morepress.unizd.hr/books/index.php/press/catalog/view/106/112/1889
Galgóczi, K., Adderley, D., Belchior, M., Blasko, A., Damjanov, J., Maciel, M., Teszary, J., Werner, M., and Westberg, M. (Ed.) (2021). Sociodrama: the Art and Science of Social Change. L’Harmattan. http://sociodramanetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/sociodrama_the_art_and_science_of_social_change_nyomdai.pdf
Giacomucci, S. (2021). Social Work, Sociometry, and Psychodrama, Experiential Approaches for Group Therapists, Community Leaders, and Social Workers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6342-7
Moreno, J. L. (1934). Who shall survive? (F. Books, Ed.). Forgotten Books. https://reflexus.org/wp-content/uploads/whoshallsurvive.pdf
Wiener, R., and Adderley, D. (2011). Sociodrama in a changing world. Lulu.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:

Jana Damjanov is MSc clinical psychologist, psychodrama and sociodrama trainer and supervisor, psychodrama psychotherapist. She has been applying sociopsychodrama in many different settings: education and training, evaluation, activism and psychotherapeutic work with groups. She has been using sociopsychodrama in the context of cultural and collective trauma, working in Western Balkans countries. She has written several chapters about sociopsychodrama in different books. She is mostly active in teaching people how to apply sociopsychodrama in different contexts in working with groups and individuals for the last 15 years.

Margarida Belchior is a teacher, researcher and sociodramatist. She started her Sociodrama training in 2011 (SPP). She organized teachers Sociodrama training; was the leading person, in Portugal, for the PERFORMERS project (ERASMUS) and author in the books which resulted from this project. She created the project Public Sociodrama with Art and led Sociodrama workshops in international settings, like the 6th and 7th International Sociodrama Conference. She is part of TELE’Drama Team and is finishing her Post-Doctorate in Inclusion and Expressive Pedagogies, teaching, and doing research in Education at Lusófona University.

Mariolina Werner Guarino is part of the Swedish Psykodrama Akademin and the Swedish Association of Psychodramatists. As psychology teacher, psychodramatist, sociodramatist and sociodrama trainer, she works in schools and institutes, and with supervision. She has worked with psychodrama and sociodrama groups since 1999, offering students and teachers regular psychodrama and sociodrama courses for personal development, integration and creative reflection on social themes. She works for the National Agency for Upper Education introducing sociopsychodrama in curricula. She published in the frame European Erasmus+ Project which ended in 2021.

SOCIODRAMA IN TEACHER EDUCATION

PRESENTERS: MARGARIDA BELCHIOR – LUZIA LIMA-RODRIGUES

Sociodrama and power

DATE AND TIME: 28th of June, Friday 14:00-16:30
CONFERENCE TOPIC: Sociodrama and youth – raising the next generation: sociodrama of children and young people, and the professionals and institutions working with them
TYPE: Workshop
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NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 35
TAGS: Sociodrama and Youth, June28 Afternoon

ABSTRACT:

In this workshop we aim to share our work as sociodramatists and teacher educators in action. Working with sociodrama, action and expressive methods in teacher education for us is to work for social justice, equity, and inclusion in schools, facing the challenges of diversity, exclusion and minorities. This means that from our own perspective, sociodrama allows us to stress a participatory and democratic pedagogy, where teachers and students, together, can learn and build knowledge in interaction through dialogue, co-creating a more participative and democratic environment. In such classrooms the teacher is no more the center of the learning process, and the communication is not anymore unidirectional. Students engage themselves in the learning process and take a proactive role regarding both their individual trajectories and social process of group development. They can simulate situations and play their future roles. They can also put themselves in the role of parents, community members or colleagues. Doing so, we think of an isomorphic process through which probably these future teachers will develop themselves as more flexible, open, and good listener professionals and human beings.

Learning objectives:

To experience and learn from some shared exercises used by the authors.
To acknowledge the role of sociodrama and expressive action methods in teacher education and in schools.

References:
Belchior, M. (2021). Becoming a Sociodramatist: Sociodrama in Education. In Sociodrama – The Art and Science of Social Change (pp. 266–286). L’Harmattan. Eds. D. Adderley, M. Belchior, A. Blaskó, K. Galkoci, M. Maciel, J. Teszary, M. Westberg, and M. Werner (Eds.), http://sociodramanetwork.com/sociodrama-theory-and-methods/
Lima-Rodrigues, L. (2021). Sociodrama and Action-Based Learning in Teacher Training Some challenges to “provoke” inclusion. In D. Adderley, M. Belchior, A. Blaskó, K. Galkoci, M. Maciel, J.Teszary, M. Westberg, and M. Werner (Eds.), Sociodrama: the art and Science of Social Change (pp. 287–301). L’Harmattan. http://sociodramanetwork.com/sociodrama-theory-and-methods/
Lima-Rodrigues, L., and Belchior, M. (2022). Aprendizagem baseada na Ação: (trans)formação de professores para a inclusão. In A. P. Pereira, M. Loureiro, E. de, H. Reis, and R. C. Rodriguez (Eds.), Atas Congresso Luso Brasileiro de Educação Inclusiva (pp. 184–187). https://conlubra2022.weebly.com/uploads/1/6/4/6/16461788/atas_conlubra_vers%C3%A3o_final.pdf
Sternberg, P., and Garcia, A. (2000). Sociodrama: Who’s in Your Shoes? (S. Edition-Praeger, Ed.). Praeger Publisher.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:

Margarida Belchior is a teacher, researcher and sociodramatist. She started her Sociodrama training in 2011 (SPP). She organized teachers Sociodrama training; was the leading person, in Portugal, for the PERFORMERS project (ERASMUS) and author in the books which resulted from this project. She co-created the project Public Sociodrama with Art and led Sociodrama workshops in international settings, like the 6th and 7th International Sociodrama Conference. She is part of TELE’Drama Team and is finishing her Post-Doctorate in Inclusion and Expressive Pedagogies, teaching, and doing research in Education at Lusófona University.

Luzia Lima-Rodrigues is a lecturer at the Universidade Lusófona and School of Education of the Setúbal Polytechnic Institute. She is a pedagogue, psychopedagogue, sociodramatist, PhD in Education from Unicamp/Brazil and post-doctorate in Special Education and Expressive Therapies (University of Lisbon). She conducts research into teacher training, action methods and expressive pedagogies, and is the author of several scientific publications in the field of Inclusive Education. She is a guest lecturer and teacher trainer, having worked in various countries such as Finland, Kazakhstan, Italy, France, China, Cape Verde, Scotland, Argentina and Brazil.

IN A MULTICULTURAL CONTEXT:
SHARING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PORTUGUESE CARNATION REVOLUTION

PRESENTER: MARGARIDA BELCHIOR

Sociodrama and power

DATE AND TIME: 29th of June, Saturday 14:00-16:30
CONFERENCE TOPIC: Sociodrama and power – the future of democratic values
TYPE: Workshop
ROOM:
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 25
TAGS: Sociodrama and Power, June29 Afternoon

ABSTRACT:

Being aware of the problems that we are living with in the world (wars, climatic urgence, the polarization of societies, concentration of richness and increasing of poverty). What makes sense to us in this Conference’s multicultural setting, is to share a social and political event that affected both our collective and individual lives. This was the pacific Carnation Revolution in Portugal in 1974. Portuguese people left behind 48 years of dictatorship and a colonial war. So in 2024, there will be the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Peace, Freedom and Democracy in Portugal. This revolution is still a very inspirational moment for most of the Portuguese people, including also Social Justice and Human Rights.

We will “warm up” the participants by sharing our own memories of this historical period, besides illustrating it with some pieces of art.

Our sociodramatic questions are: From this inspirational and social event – the Portuguese Carnation Revolution – what do you take, to face problems that we are living with in our society?

We will invite participants to discuss and work in groups about what inspires them the most and how it can help them to contribute and transform some of the social issues they find in their communities or groups.

Finally, we will propose that participants share, in action and using expressive arts, having in mind, as Moreno taught us, that we are all co-creators and can build together more inclusive and equitable societies now and in the future – surplus reality.

From a research methodology perspective, we will use a participatory action research methodology, as this will be an open, experiential and participative workshop, based on Sociodrama.

After this workshop, participants will be able:

To co-create a collaborative artwork piece, like sculptures or drawings, that will express the sharing and feelings associated with what they shared and lived in the workshop;
To become more familiar with the concept of “surplus reality” concept.

References:
Kristoffersen, B; Mollan, A. G. (2015). I Invite Each of Us to Speak our Truth-On Sociopsychodrama. Arts and Social Sciences Journal, 06(01). https://doi.org/10.4172/2151-6200.100090
Moreno, J. L. (1934). Who shall survive? (F. Books, Ed.). Forgotten Books