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Giving birth and being born is a universal experience for all of us. This topic continues to gather significant interest, spark debates, and evoke strong emotions. However, even if the experience seems unique, it is also deeply rooted in the social context, belief systems, and world views that define our society.

Some people believe that the sanctity of childbirth can only take place in an intimate environment of peace and quiet, and this is backed up by anthropological and medical research which highlights the lower risk of home births. However, women who choose to give birth at home often face anger, attacks, and stigmatization from the majority of society and institutional authorities.What are the social factors that lead a significant number of women to choose hospitals as their place of birth, despite reports of difficult experiences? Many women face humiliating, impersonal, and authoritarian treatment within the healthcare system, with a certain percentage experiencing trauma. 

The aim of our workshop is to explore and raise awareness of the driving forces behind the above choices through sociodramatic exploration. We would like for our participants to be able to stand up for themselves or ask for help in vulnerable situations.

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Let us not wallow in the valley of despair—So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow—I have a dream—I have a dream that one day—a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice—I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.(Martin Luther King)

Non-violence is an active action with the aim to act in conflicts without weapons and physical violence. Martin Luther King called it a soul force. For soul force, nonviolence is about getting outside of over/under power dynamics, where we win and someone else loses.

Moreno’s philosophy is founded on the idea of spontaneity and role-reversal, even with your antagonist. It does not mean you have the same values or accept he or she is right, but you are able to see who the antagonist really is and act creative.

After the session participants will have had experiences of nonviolent conflict resolution and be able to describe soul force and its connection with Morenian philosophy.

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Sociodrama is an action method created by Dr. J.L. Moreno, Group members spontaneously enact a social situation, assuming assigned roles to study and address problems in collective relationships or social issues. Theatre of the Oppressed is a method created by the Brazilian practitioner Augusto Boal. It encompasses theatrical forms Boal first developed in the 1960s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe and North America. Boal’s techniques use theatre as a means of promoting social and political change. How can Sociodrama and Theatre of the Oppressed collaborate to promote, explore, understand, and advance human rights, fostering dignity worldwide? How can international practitioners use these two methods together to address the global purpose of humanity? This workshop will provide a methodology for understanding and initiating change.

After attending this session, the participants will be able to:

1. Apply Sociodrama and Theatre of the Oppressed techniques to enact and analyze real-world human rights scenarios, fostering a deeper understanding of these issues.
2. Identify cross-cultural competence and skills to apply these action methods across diverse cultural contexts, considering nuances and sensitivities in addressing human rights issues globally.
3. Examine creative techniques, facilitated by Sociodrama and Theatre of the Oppressed, as a catalyst for social and political change in the realm of human rights.

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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) rights are under pressure as social conservatives have increasingly taken action to target legislation and policies against LGBTI people. The political rhetoric driving these anti-LGBTI policies has led to an increase in the amount of hate speech and violence LGBTI people face and makes workspaces, schools and other public spaces feel unsafe. This impact is amplified by internalized messages stemming from years of micro-aggressions. In this workshop, we will use sociodrama to explore strategies to help LGBTI people navigate and resist the impact of anti-LGBTI rhetoric and find ways to help them effectively speak truth to power.

1. Define Kipper’s (2002) cognitive double.
2. Describe how to use embodied cognition to help participants experience a sense of empowerment.

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Sociodrama in this presentation is defined as a combination of psychodrama and group analysis. Every meeting begins with free-floating discussion (ga), continues with personal psychodrama vignettes on stage(pd), without deepening the individual meaning of the vignets, but interpreted as the contribution to the matrix of the group (ga), ends with sharing (pd).

The presenter will talk about her experience in the application of this method in understanding art and society. And then specifically, more detail about the workshop “Sociodrama vignettes about the future“, which was held in Krk (Croatia) in 2023, within the climate camp. The workshop aimed to create a space to share intimate hopes and fears about the future in the context of climate change. Scheduled on the last day of camp, as we were saying goodbye, this workshop was the opportunity to get in touch with sadness and morning for things that we are going to part with (camp/ world as we know it).

In the second part of the presentation, there will be some action experience in a free-floating discussion for the participants.

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