INTRODUCING THE SCOPE WORKING GROUP
PRESENTERS: MEMBERS OF THE SCOPE WORKING GROUP:
ZOLTÁN BOGSCHÜTZ – KATALIN HEGYES – ANDREA KOCSI – ZSUZSANNA LAKATOS – FELÍCIA MENYHÁRT – EMŐKE TAKÁCS – JUDIT TÓTH-DÉNES
Sociodrama and power
DATE AND TIME: 26th of June, Wednesday 20:30-22:00
CONFERENCE TOPIC: Sociodrama and Youth – raising the next generation: sociodrama of children and young people, and the professionals and institutions working with them
TYPE: Presentation + Workshop
ROOM:
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 50
TAGS: Sociodrama and Youth, June26 Evening
ABSTRACT:
The SCOPE Working Group emerged from the PERFORMERS international sociodrama project.
Since 2021, the working group has been collaborating with institutions focusing on youth, utilizing sociodrama and child sociodrama methods.
We work with schools, children care homes, correctional facilities, family shelters, and educational support centers. Our aim is to support these institutions towards more democratic operation, ensuring safety for both the professionals and the children they serve, while cultivating a nurturing, supportive environment. To accomplish this, we work with groups of children considering the institutional settings in which they reside, and seeking partnerships with facility administrators, leaders, and professionals.
Our presentation provides a concise overview of our journey thus far, highlighting the challenges encountered, the solutions devised, and the outcomes attained.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
Zoltán Bogschütz is a social worker, social politician and social manager. He has gained experience in various fields, especially in alternative sanctions and child protection.
Zoltán has more than two decades of training experience in national and international projects, which he is constantly expanding with coaching and facilitation techniques, while also adding psychodrama and sociodrama elements.
His participation in the SCOPE Working Group inspires him to create new viewpoints and values in institutional drama situations.
Katalin Hegyes is a trainer, communication expert, bibliodrama assistant and psychodrama leader, working with sociodrama in social institutions and mainly in schools.
She attaches particular importance to building small communities, fostering acceptance of differences and freedom from prejudice.
She is interested in using sociodrama to raise environmental awareness and strengthen local initiatives, too.
Andrea Kocsi is a children’s psychodramatist, psychodrama leader for adults, monodrama counsellor, sociodrama trainer.
She is a teacher and educational expert.
As one of the four founders of the SCOPE Working Group, her main interest is establishing drama in educational institutions, helping both students and teachers.
Felícia Menyhárt has been a member of the SCOPE Working Group for over a year. She specializes in utilizing institutional drama within social institutions and schools to foster improvement and collaboration in communities.
With a background in social policy and economics, she is a qualified teacher and trainer. Apart from her expertise in institutional drama, Felícia also contributes to community development through the application of playback theatre techniques.
She holds certifications as a psychodrama leader, sociodrama assistant, focus trainer, and is a candidate for mental health practitioner. She is a firm believer in the effectiveness of democratically functioning, self-renewing small communities, and her experience is that SCOPE’s methodology contributes positively to this vision.
Zsuzsanna Lakatos is a social pedagogue, biology teacher, drawing examination consultant and special education assistant.
She has many years of experience in the field of child protection, and is currently in charge of the professional coordination of a Refugee Accommodation to which underprivileged Transcarpathian Roma families have applied for asylum.
She has been using for three years the toolbox of sociodrama and children’s drama in child protection institutions as well as in refugee shelters.
Emőke Takács is an adult and child psychodramatist, coach, social worker, migration and intercultural expert.
She works as a Project Coordinator at the Jesuit Refugee Service Budapest, Hungary.
She is also a member of the SCOPE Working Group.
Judit Tóth-Dénes has been a member of the SCOPE Working Group for 2,5 years, she works with institutional drama in schools and social institutions (family foster care homes, youth detention centers) to improve communities.
Judit studied sociology and journalism.
She is an art therapist, psychodrama assistant and coach.
She believes that the SCOPE’s methodology affects the whole institute that they work with
POSSIBILITIES OF SOCIODRAMA IN THE CONTEXT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS
MODERATORS: KATALIN HEGYES – ZSELYKE MOLNOS
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Sociodrama and power
DATE AND TIME: 27th of June, Thursday 9:30-10:45
CONFERENCE TOPIC: Sociodrama and ecology – environmental issues and relationships between organisms, including humans, and their living context
TYPE: Roundtable discussion
ROOM:
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 40
TAGS: Sociodrama and Ecology, June27 Morning
ABSTRACT:
Increasingly hot summers, snowless winters, water restrictions – the signs of the climate crisis are becoming more and more apparent in our daily lives. How can sociodrama help to promote a more environmentally conscious attitude, so that we realise that we need to change our lifestyles for the sake of our future?
The discussion will be attended by foreign sociodramatists, such as Marjut Partanen-Hertell from Finland, Enikő Fazakas from Romania or Hungarian experts, such as Barbara Mihóh and Attila Donáth, who have worked on ecological issues.
The aim of the roundtable is to give experts the opportunity to share their experiences and present their work.
Main themes might include:
• How can we address these issues without creating fear, anxiety, or reinforcing images of disaster?
• Sociodrama can also serve as a way for a community to collectively figure out what they can do for their immediate environment. How can sociodrama contribute to developing community solutions in this area?
• To make the necessary changes, it is not enough to change individual lifestyles, but economic, political and social changes are needed. How can we work sociodramatically with this?
The audience will learn about different possibilities and “best practices” on how sociodrama can serve to shape ecological attitudes and conscious behaviour – at the individual, small community, or societal level.
ABOUT THE MODERATORS:
Katalin Hegyes is a trainer, communication expert, a biblio- and psychodrama teacher, working with sociodrama in social institutions and mainly in school classrooms. She is one of the founders of the Hegyvidék Green Circle in Budapest, author of the book Outdoors! and she has also completed a course in human ecology, which is why she is interested in using sociodrama to raise environmental awareness and strengthen local eco-initiatives.
Zselyke Molnos: As a biologist and psychologist, she has been working in the field of ecopsychology for a decade. Her work at the Ecopsychology Institute, their Nature-Connection Facilitator trainings, her books (eg. The Ecopsychological Paradigm), her lectures, as well as the participatory nature walks she facilitates, all focus on the paradigm shift in our relationship with the rest of nature, that is of upmost importance. Her PhD research at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Psychology Doctoral School, People-Environment Tranzaction program also focuses on nature connectedness and nature perception.
INCLUSION, ACCEPTANCE
BIBLIODRAMATIC SOCIODRAMA
PRESENTERS: TÜNDE MAJSAI-HIDEG – KATALIN HEGYES
BIBLIODRAMATIC SOCIODRAMA
Sociodrama and power
DATE AND TIME: 27th of June, Thursday 14:00-16:30
CONFERENCE TOPIC: Sociodrama and different social groups – the strenghts of communities
TYPE: Workshop
ROOM:
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 15
TAGS: Different Social Groups, June27 Afternoon
ABSTRACT:
For those escaping hunger, poverty, and persecution, and for others facing various disadvantages, the fundamental question arises: do we include and accept them? Do we open ourselves and our assets to them? Are we willing to understand them and their situation? Do we see the values and dignity of others as our own? “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was a stranger and you invited me in.”
As a result of the scriptural understanding of man’s existence in the world, bibliodrama, similar to sociodrama, is an important medium for aspirations to transcend the vicissitudes of current life situations. In the workshop we will try to show how a biblical story can become an inspiration for solving problems on a social level by understanding the human experience told to help the community to better mobilize its resources and to take responsibility.
Our starting story is a fascinating intercultural-interethnic event: „In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab {…} They married Moabite women.”
In the first part of our workshop, we will experience and reflect on the social context of the narrative. Afterward, we will together create the reality of the initial situation here and now. In the meantime, we will pay particular attention to the common ground in the interpersonal relations of the moment, to aspects of understanding, solidarity, inclusion, and subsidiarity. We will attempt to experience the joys and challenges of an ecumenical and intercultural attitude, and how and to what extent scriptural truth can be made relevant to us: “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 7, 12)
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
Tünde Majsai-Hideg is a Reformed theologian-pastor, mental health professional, clinical pastoral care, religion teacher, family consultant, supervisor, psychodrama trainer, child psychodrama trainer and supervisor, bibliodrama supervisor.
She attaches particular importance to building small communities, fostering acceptance of differences and freedom from prejudice.
She is a committed advocate of interdisciplinary, intercultural and interfaith dialogue.
Katalin Hegyes is a trainer, communication expert, a biblio- and psychodrama teacher, working with sociodrama in social institutions and mainly in school classrooms.
She taught refugees in Germany, and is a member of several professional groups and the Hegyvidék Green Circle, which is active in promoting environmental awareness.
She believes in the power of diversity and acceptance.
