This workshop will work with whatever topic participants choose.

Learning objectives

• the use of spontaneity
• finding a topic
• scene setting

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This session will demonstrate and engage participants in action, exploring effective warm-up techniques tailored to the unique challenges and opportunities of directing sociodrama online, with a focus on collective explorations. Participants will learn how to effectively engage and prepare groups for sociodramatic work in virtual settings. By the end of this session, attendees will be equipped with practical strategies to foster group cohesion, stimulate participant readiness, and facilitate meaningful collective inquiry and reflection in an online environment.

Learning Objectives:

• After this session, participants will be able to demonstrate online warm-up exercises for sociodrama in at least three different, innovative, and creative ways.
• Following this session, participants will be able to identify various online tools for facilitating sociodrama within their own communities.

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Join us for a transformative workshop, where the fusion of sociodrama, technology, and the Social Atom opens new possibilities for healing and envisioning the future.
To embark on the journey of shaping our future, we must find a starting point. That crucial point is in the “here and now” and within our primary relationships, the Social Atom. Moreno’s Social Atom gives us a way to map out and predict the future. It is within that “space” where changes can be made.
This workshop introduces RCompass, a digital tool to map relationships using a case study. Using smart algorithms, RCompass measures Relationship Capital, giving both a collective and individual Relationship Capital Index (RCi). The app. allows the player to analyse “how did we get here” and make relevant changes for the future.
Case Study: Meet Doris, a 35-year-old who cannot any longer live in her family Cultural Conserve. She builds the right energy for change and spontaneity but lacks Creativity.
RCompass provided her with an objective look at her Social Atom, unraveling how her situation evolved. This visualization empowered her to dream of the relational life she desired.

Learning Objectives:

• Grasp the basics of Moreno’s Social Atom and psychodrama principles.
• Discover RCompass as a transformative digital sociometry tool.
• Apply RCompass in therapy, organisational dynamics, and group coaching.
• Get hands-on with RCompass through interactive exercises.
  

Benefits for Participants: Get free access to the RCompass app for six months, integrating this tech into your therapeutic and coaching practices.

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The social atom, created by Moreno in 1975, posits that individuals are shaped by their interactions, leading to the development of role theory. Moreno suggested that the social atom represents the smallest unit of society, comprised of people essential to an individual’s life. Literature examining differences includes Butler (2011), who discusses gender performances, and Hooks (2000), who introduces the concept of intersectionality. It could be argued that social tensions affecting groups identified with different categories may lead to violent acts, such as racism and homophobia, often perpetrated by those who identify one-sidedly with these social struggles. In contrast, the Morenian approach enables groups to understand each other through their differences as well as their similarities. Thus, literature on social markers serves as a contemporary tool that can complement and enhance psychodramatic work. This online workshop aims to explore client relationships through the lens of social categories like gender, race, and sexual orientation, drawing attention to how these differences influence such relationships. Participants will reflect on their own and their clients’ experiences regarding sociocultural and historical differences.

Educational Objectives:

• To make the social differences between psychodramatists and their clients more visible and encourage curiosity about these differences.
• To reflect on client relationships concerning social markers and differences, acknowledging their impact on these relationships.
• To share strategies for addressing differences in psychodramatic work.

Method:
Participants will create social atoms for clients they currently work with, whether in private practice, institutions, or other settings. After developing these social atoms, they will categorize their clients by social identities (e.g., transgender, bisexual, non-monogamous), using different colors to represent each category. The expected outcome is a social atom that visually represents the clients’ identities. Participants will then be invited to consider which markers might identify their clients (e.g., skin color, gender expression, relationship styles) and how their own experiences with these markers may influence their client relationships. This reflection will be conducted privately. Afterward, participants will share their thoughts with the group to the extent that they feel comfortable. The discussion will include the impact of power relations on their work and strategies for managing differences and power imbalances.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES
Butler, J. (2011). Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Estados Unidos: Taylor & Francis. Hooks, B. (2000). Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Reino Unido: Pluto Press. Moreno, J. L. (1946). Psychodrama. Estados Unidos: Beacon House.

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In the past, a person identified with a culture easily when everyone in his or her (or their) community formed a social consensus and everyone sympathized equally with each other on most issues.
However, globalization brought people together physically, mentally, and technologically. Now, it is harder to define one’s culture by geographic location, national borders, or even race.
For example, a teenager from Hungary, Nepal, and Indonesia might identify themselves more by the YouTube or TikTok channel they commonly subscribe to. An expatriated teenager might not sense a belonging to any nationality and sense oneself as an international orphan. Modern society’s multicultural aspect inevitably forces us to accept complex identities that might not fit into any norm of nationality or demographics.
So where do I fit? Or do I need to fit in at all?

After this session participants will be able to

• Understand the complexity of cultural identity and the group dynamics in our society.
• Strengthen their sensitivity towards cultural differences while interacting with individuals and groups.
• Explore their own cultural anchors that differentiate or associate themselves to the different communities and society.

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The presenter selected this topic to highlight the social roles of individuals living with Alzheimer’s, along with the challenges faced by both formal and informal caregivers, and the broader implications for society. This decision is rooted in the presenter’s expertise and extensive experience in the field. Dr. Daniela Simmons, a sociodramatist, gerontologist, and educator, emphasizes, “Happy Aging means living with dignity, love, and care. Old Age should be as enjoyable as any other season of human life. This is a critical issue that demands attention from caregivers, professionals, and policymakers alike. We must envision how we want to experience our later years and ensure the same quality of life for those currently in old age.” With this perspective, the workshop aims to explore and understand the profound impact of dementia and identify effective ways to support those affected by the condition, their families, and caregivers, as well as society at large. The presentation will incorporate both didactic and experiential elements. Learning Objectives:

Participants will gain insights into the profound effects of dementia on individuals, their families, and caregivers. The workshop will explore the social roles of those living with Alzheimer’s and the challenges they face, emphasizing the importance of dignified, loving, and caring approaches to aging.

Attendees will learn effective ways to support those affected by dementia, focusing on enhancing the quality of life for the elderly in their later years. Strategies will address the needs of both formal and informal caregivers and consider the broader implications for society.

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Families and patients often struggle to see that eating disorders are not about weight or food. This sociodramatic technique was developed to use in large multifamily groups to help educate and give the families the emotional experience of an eating disorder and create a strategy for recovery from within. The sociodrama itself uses some body resistance to concretize the body struggle and we will be practicing together how to recreate a very physicalized sociodrama into a hybrid live/zoom space.

After this workshop participants will explain the importance of familial role reversal with the patient to stop the rescue pattern and help the client heal themselves.
After this workshop participants will be able to apply ‘fat’ and healing circles for working with body image issues.

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Utilizing techniques developed from the HearthMath laboratory, the presenter combines these methods with tools of sociodrama, as a means to engage with collective intelligence and intuition. This approach aims to elicit answers and commitments from individuals and the community. In the first part, the presenter will introduce the main techniques to the participants. Then, in the second part, we will collaboratively formulate a collective question about our initial actions within our community. This process involves creating the question together and then sharing experiences through internal psychodrama to facilitate the third part: the sociodrama. Here, we use our bodies as metaphors and symbols to enact the action responses to our questions, allowing us to define our commitments. Learning Objectives:

Participants will learn three techniques of cardiac coherence from the HearthMath Institute.
We will co-create questions and answers focusing on our collective desires beyond individual needs, aiming to address what the community requires.

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In social justice spaces there can be a tendency towards perfectionism and purity. But social change comes when we build strong and durable coalitions. Appreciative bonds bring freedom and delight.

After this session, participants will be able to:

• Distinguish between four types of interventions (calling out, calling off, calling on, and calling in)
• Identify two sociodramatic prompts for coalition building towards social justice.

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Do you ever find yourself thinking or saying: ‘I can’t believe you think that’ or ‘You’re so wrong!’?
This sociodrama session will focus on how we can become more comfortable with holding others’ views with kindness and open-heartedness while still maintaining our own views without defensiveness or aggression.
Sociodrama is a group learning process that focuses on providing practice in solving problems of human relationships. It helps people clarify values and offers opportunities to explore new and more satisfying ways of interacting.

Objectives:

• Define sociodrama as done in US;
• Describe ways to use sociodrama to increase comfort in difficult situations.
  

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Many of us feel overwhelmed and defeated by the enormity of the climate crisis facing us and the impact it is already having. We are also deeply concerned about the impact on future generations. Using the magic of sociodrama, we can give voice to our grief and fear, hear from the earth itself and the needs of the future. In facing our reality on this planet, we can through dialogue find new connection with each other and the power of our own actions to make change- rediscovering hope.

After this session participants will be able to:

• identify and express their feelings about their specific concerns related to the environment
• identify ways in which they are already part of the change towards greater harmony with the earth
• explore ways to continue and deepen the movement toward healing the environment and ourselves in relation to it.

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Moreno created sociodrama to enable us to co-create collective roles in which each of us is represented in each of the shared roles. Sociodrama enables us to warm up to community issues and to give a voice to our community shared concerns. Sociodrama helps participants to express feelings about the concern and to rehearse new ways to deal with it. After this session , participants will be able to:

• Examine and warm up to human rights that are universal to ourselves and our neighbors.
• Apply at least two sociodramatic techniques acting out assigned roles to enact and remedy a community social situation.
• Create new and adequate solutions in which human rights are protected for all of humanity. 

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