FROM IMAGINATION TO SUSTAINABLE CREATION WITH WILL AND GRACE

PRESENTER: IRINA STEFANESCU

Sociodrama and power
DATE AND TIME: 29th of June, Saturday  14:00-16:30
CONFERENCE TOPIC: Sociodrama and organisational development, team coaching and training
TYPE: Workshop
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NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 30
TAGS: Organisational Development, June29 Afternoon
ABSTRACT:

When a community or organisation creates its future, this means active, coordinated, conscientious change. As sociodramatists, we can help communities to imagine and enact a shared vision. What happens next, when people want to act, to transform that shared vision into reality? There is energy, there is will. But how much systemic view is there? How much grace is there for the other members’ actions for change? Often, people can’t see the wood for the trees.

Using sociodrama, we can explore what happens when changes occur in parallel, in various areas of the community’s system and how they can happen synergetically, without competing. To help build a healthy community capacity, we may accompany those members to increase their systemic awareness of the other changes. Thus, the community does not rely only on its leaders, but also on mentally flexible members who are awake, willful and gracious, working together, more collaborative and less conflictual.

By the end of the workshop, the participants have experienced:

  • mapping the system of the changes in a community: actors, actions, stakeholders
  • eliciting and concretising the forces shaping those changes
  • ways of intervening when there is much energy for changes
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

As a practitioner of psychodrama since 2009 (ARPsiC) and sociodrama (BPA) since 2012, Irina integrated the use of these action methods in her professional practice of coaching and organisational development consultant, being a creative learning partner for people and their organisations. She introduces sociodrama to psychodrama schools from various European countries. Together with a beautiful team – Norbert Apter, Valerie Monti Holland, Eveline Jost and Peter Schoenhagen, they have developed and run a certificate training in sociodrama and action methods for trainers, coaches, managers and social workers in Genève, Switzerland.