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The main objective of sociodrama intervention in no profit or for-profit organizations is to intervene in the professional role and the meaning attributed to it. The hierarchical structure never coincides with the actual organizational chart, so people constantly live in a conflict from which they must protect themselves. The work group interacts, communicates, copes with everyday life, but there is a lack of opportunities for sharing and integration. Through symbolic language and the sociodramatic scene, the protagonists experiment with new ways of relating in order to find new answers to the adversities and conflicts they encounter. Sociodrama acts as a connector between private and collective roles in the pursuit of social and personal well-being in organizations and the development of a positive tele.

At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• make more conscious reflections on the roles acted out and the needs to be met within their context of belonging
• read more clearly the group dynamics and conflicts present
  

Please bring an object representative of your professional life!!

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Learning Objectives:
After the session participants will be able to:
• Become aware of their responses to tense, frustrating situations at the workplace; and explore alternative responses to such situations at an individual level.
• Apply sociodramatic techniques in organizational context— building a humane organisation-for team coaching, leadership development and training.

Methodology:
. Through a warm-up, director listens for themes (universal ideas and issues) that tie the stories together;
• Director helps group choose the action frame
• Group-centered sociodrama is played out
• Closure: Members are helped return to cognitive frame; and discuss opportunity to plan new behaviours (plan/discuss how they will act in a specific future situation)

Theory and basis:
Sociodrama is a social learning activity based in a group setting.
Wiener and Sprague have emphasized sociodrama as a method for learning in addition to) social change.
It helps in:
• an improved understanding of a social (organizational or group) situation
• an increase in participants’ knowledge about their own and other people’s roles in relation to that situation
• an emotional release or catharsis as people express their feelings about the subject”
This approach can be good for developing insight, team building and role training. It allows group members to bond, and provides a safe way to share material.

Bibliography:
Sternburg, P. & Garcia, A. (1989). Sociodrama: Who’s in Your Shoes? Praeger Publishers, New York.
Dayton, T. (2005) The Living Stage; a step-by-step guide to psychodrama, sociometry and experiental group therapy. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc.
Galgoczi K, Adderley D, Balsko A, Belchior M, et al (2021) Sociodrama: The Art and Science of Social Change. L’Harmattan.
Wiener R, Adderley D, Kirk K. Sociodrama in a Changing World .Lulu.com
Wiener R. Creative Training. Sociodrama and Team Building.

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Participants will be provided with a methodology to deal with emotionally difficult situations and organisational and personal conflicts by using sociodrama tools such as exchange of positions in group mediation steps. The aim is that participants will experience and later apply in their work an interdisciplinary combination of group dynamics, sociodrama, conflict management, and mediation in sensitive multi-stakeholder situations.

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Many leadership development methods involve a degree of role-playing, including basket-case scenarios, business simulations, serious games, educational live-action role-playing games, coaching interventions, etc.

In this presentation, I outline my PhD research that attempts to contextualize the role that Moreno-rooted dramatic methods like sociodrama can take in leadership development interventions.

After this session participants will be able to compare sociodrama to other methods in leadership development, and define their similarities and differences. Participants will also be able to report on the current state of sociodrama research.

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Using key action techniques such as the “revealing chairs”, metaphors, writing texts, objects or picture cards, the workshop will explore in a sociodramatic way the obstacles and levers to facilitate change and new visions for a collective future in communities, groups and/or working teams. The workshop is articulated in the book “Facilitating Collective Intelligence, a Handbook for Trainers, Coaches, Consultants and Leaders” (Routledge 2029). In addition to the action techniques, an attention will focus on :

• Key inner attitudes to facilitate a sociodramatic work
• Key questions to activate collective intelligence in a sociodramatic work

After this session, participants will be able to :

•  Internalize an inner attitude to facilitate a sociodramatic work
• Identify a key question to activate collective intelligence in a sociodramatic work
• Explore the use of an action technique to foster a sociodramatic work

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Learning Objectives:

After the session participants will:

• Assess their conflict resolution styles;
• Gain increased understanding about the dynamics of conflict and dissent, understanding its potential benefits;
• Shape their own unique approach towards handling it productively.

Methodology:
• Warm-up prepares participants to come together & develop the enactment;
• scenic imagery; constellations, sculptures;
• Presentation by director; thematic work in small groups; group discussions, etc.

Theory and basis:
There are three types of Sociodrama: Topic centered sociodrama ; Group centered sociodrama; Sociocultural sociodrama. (Ameln and Becker-Ebel).
This workshop demonstrates Topic Centered Sociodrama.
The framework used is Thomas Kilmann’s Model of Different Styles of Handling Conflict

Bibliography:
Ameln F., Becker-Ebel J (2020). Fundamentals of Psychodrama. Springer Singapore.
Sternburg, P. & Garcia, A. (1989). Sociodrama: Who’s in Your Shoes? Praeger Publishers, New York.
Dayton, T. (2005) The Living Stage; a step-by-step guide to psychodrama, sociometry and experiental group therapy. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc.
Galgoczi K, Adderley D, Balsko A, Belchior M, et al (2021) Sociodrama: The Art and Science of Social Change. L’Harmattan.
Wiener R, Adderley D, Kirk K. Sociodrama in a Changing World .Lulu.com
Wiener R. Creative Training. Sociodrama and Team Building.

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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

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Have you ever experienced light, silent, non-verbal, movement-based Sociodrama? In this workshop, we will combine Sociodrama with Social Presencing Theater (SPT) to explore a group or community’s inner and outer relations. SPT is the Embodiment part of Theory U, which is an expanding method for awareness-based systems change. We will start with a SPT form called The Village and then give it a sociodramatic turn.

Participants will not only experience this combination of action methods but also receive a brief introduction to SPT as well as a presentation on three ways to combine two action methods as described in the article “Sociodrama meets Social Presencing Theater on a bricoleur ́s journey” (published in Zeitschrift für Psychodrama und Soziometrie in early 2024).

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