BLOWING UP BLOCKAGES:
TRANSFORMING YOUR WAY TO CREATIVITY THROUGH SOCIAL
MATRIX
PRESENTER: JANA DAMJANOV
Sociodrama and power
DATE AND TIME: 27th of June, Thursday 10:00-12:30
CONFERENCE TOPIC: Sociodrama and social healing – recovery from collective crises and collective trauma
TYPE: Workshop
ROOM:
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 30
TAGS: Social Healing, June27 Morning
ABSTRACT:
In this workshop, you will see how sociopsychodrama, its theory, methods and philosophy can be used in group work.
You will experience and explore blockages in the social matrix. Through our sociopsychodramatic work we will identify creativity blockages inside social matrix.
Also, we will find ways how to transform these blockages. We will open new pathways for flow inside social matrix.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Jana Damjanov is MSc clinical psychologist, psychodrama and sociodrama trainer and supervisor, psychodrama psychotherapist. She is a co-founder of the Regional Association for Psychodrama and Integrative Psychotherapy. 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.
“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
ROOM:
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.
BEYOND THE HERE AND NOW – KNOWLEDGE GENERATED IN SOCIODRAMA:
THE BRIDGE OVER THE GAP BETWEEN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND GENERAL SOCIAL REALITY.
A DRAMATIC WORKSHOP
PRESENTER: ÁGNES BLASKÓ – JANA DAMJANOV – LUCY DAVIES – ZSÓFIA KOLLÁNYI – ORSOLYA LELKES -SARAH-JANE LENNIE – ESZTER NEUMANN – LEYLA SAFTA-ZECHERIA
THE BRIDGE OVER THE GAP BETWEEN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND GENERAL SOCIAL REALITY.
A DRAMATIC WORKSHOP
Sociodrama and power
DATE AND TIME: 29th of June, Saturday 9:00-12:30
CONFERENCE TOPIC: Sociodrama and more – Widening the scope of sociodrama: related fields, methodological exploration
TYPE: Workshop
ROOM:
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 20
TAGS: Sociodrama and More, June29 Morning
ABSTRACT:
Moreno viewed sociodrama as the ultimate tool for social research, an idea dramatists resonate with due to its broad applicability across diverse social groups. Despite historical hesitations, academia is increasingly embracing dramatic tools as a qualitative research method. The Drama as Academic Research (DAR) Research Group, an international group of researchers from various scientific fields and drama practitioners themselves, invites academic researchers and dramatists to explore criteria and methods for generating knowledge through drama. The workshop aims to chart a path for leveraging drama’s potential in producing academically valuable insights.
At the workshop, after a short introduction of findings and experiences of the Research Group so far, we place our topic on a sociodramatic stage, representing key „actors” – such as reality (whatever that means); dramatic methods; other, traditionally established data collection methods; people form the Academia not familiar with dramatic methods; the “subject” of the research; and anyone and anything the participants bring in – and see how the scene unfolds itself in the process of co-creation. We hope to gain insights into epistemological questions surrounding knowledge derived from drama, addressing issues and dilemmas tied to the dramatic modality, ethical considerations, and the researcher’s role.
Learning objectives: Participants develop an understanding of needs and requirements of academic research related to dramatic methods, and an insight into challenges and opportunities of dramatic methods as a research tool in terms of data validity, research ethics, transferability, and so on
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
The Drama as Academic Research Group (DAR-RG) was founded in 2023, aiming to explore the possibility of dramatic methods applied as an academic research tool. Founders and contributors of DAR-RG involved in the workshop are both academic researchers from various fields of science and humanities, and practitioners of a variety of dramatic methods, including psychodrama, sociodrama, forum theater, etc., and bring experiences from this dual role in the workshop.
Ágnes Blaskó, HU
Sociodrama facilitator, social scientist
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Sociology and Communication
Jana Damjanov, RS
MSc in Clinical Psychology, Sociodrama and psychodrama trainer and supervisor, psychodrama psychotherapist,
Regional Association for Psychodrama and Integrative Psychotherapy and The Center for Sociopsychodrama and Research
Lucy Davies, UK
PhD student at the Open University
Zsófia Kollányi, HU
Social scientist
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Social Sciences
Orsolya Lelkes, AT
Psychodrama facilitator and coach, social scientist
Sarah-Jane Lennie, UK
Charter psychologist
British Psychological Societ; The Open University
Eszter Neumann, HU
Sociologist
HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences
Leyla Safta-Zecheria, RO
Social scientist,
West University of Timișoara, Democracy Institute
