Which kind of communities and which kind of networks one needs in order to survive the times we live in? What does the community mean to us? What kind of experiences do we have from being part of different communities and networks? How do we relate with communities that we live in, or how do we relate to networks which we are part of?

From the perspective of role theory and sociopcyhodrama, we are born in relations with everything around us. What kind of roles have we developed by being in contact with different communities and networks? What kind of learning has happened to us that is community based? How can we use this knowledge? In this workshop people will be challenged to enact the vision of communities and networks that are needed for them.

By the end of this workshop people will:

• Identify and differentiate experiences gained through relating to different communities and networks and what roles it build inside of them

• Learn what they need and how they can use sociodrama in order to start building communities and networks that they need in here and now

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 the former Yugoslavia region. 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.

Monica Westberg is a co-founder of FEPTO, the Swedish Psychodrama Foundation, and the Norwegian Psychodrama School. Her certification includes a BA in Pedagogy of Children and Gender and a Certificate of Directorship from the Moreno Institute (USA). She has been for many years a trainer, counsellor and supervisor at international level in psycho and sociodrama, in domains as social care, mental health care, education and business. She is experienced in working with refugee children and women in Sweden and in Norway, and actively networks with colleagues in Scandinavia, Europe and Argentina.

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 with 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 ended in 2021.