Directed by: Jaye Moyer, LCSW, TEP, CTP-2 & Daniela Simmons, PhD, TEP

Embodied Buddhist Psychology, Psychodrama & Sociometry in Clinical Practice
A 4-Part Workshop Series (2 hours each)
Attend the full series or individual sessions.

This series blends ancient contemplative wisdom with modern action methods, offering a powerful and integrated approach to clinical practice.
Buddhist psychology provides a creative and liberating lens for understanding life and its challenges.
Rather than viewing difficulties as problems to fix, Buddhist Psychology invites us to explore experience as a dynamic, unfolding process—shaped by perception, reactivity, habit, and awareness.

 Buddhist psychology cultivates mindful awareness—the capacity to observe
experiences with openness and care.
 Psychodrama gives that awareness form—allowing us to externalize inner
worlds, embody roles, and experiment with new responses.
 Sociometry situates this work within the relational field—illuminating how we
influence and are influenced by, one another.

Together, they create a living practice where insight becomes action, and action deepens insight.

Workshop Series Overview

1. Mindfulness — The Foundation of Embodied Practice
Develop mindful awareness of body, heart, and mind as the ground for presence.
Cultivate the capacity to stay attuned, steady, and responsive in the midst of experiences.
Educational Frame:
Mindfulness (sati) as a way of relating to experience with clarity and non-reactivity.
Learning Edge:
Participants begin to recognize experience as process, not as identity.

2. The Hindrances — Working with Difficult Emotions Through Awareness
Explore the Five Hindrances as universal patterns of mind. Learn to turn toward difficulty with curiosity and mindful attention.
Educational Frame:
Hindrances are not obstacles to practice—they are the practice. They reveal how suffering is constructed in real time.
Learning Edge:
Participants shift from identification → relationship with difficult states.

3. The Brahma Viharas — The Embodied Heart Qualities
(Loving-kindness • Compassion • Joy • Equanimity)
Cultivate heart-centered capacities that support connection, resilience, and open presence in personal and relational work.
Educational Frame:
The Brahma Viharas are embodied relational capacities, not abstract ideals—we are training the heart.
Learning Edge:
Participants develop internal resources for regulation, connection, and resilience.

4. Transforming Reactivity into Response
Develop the ability to pause, reflect, and choose intentional actions. Integrate mindfulness, emotional awareness, and role flexibility.
Educational Frame:
Freedom emerges in the pause—when awareness and heart qualities inform action.
Learning Edge:
Participants practice transforming reactivity into wise, embodied responses.