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 integrative 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, it 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 experience 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 are shaped by, and shape, one another.

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

Workshop Series Overview
Embodied Buddhist Psychology in Action: From Awareness to Wise Response

1. Mindfulness as the Foundation of Embodied Practice
Explore mindfulness as a direct, lived experience grounded in the body. Participants develop presence and begin to experience awareness as a pathway to freedom.

2. The Hindrances — Working with Difficult Emotions Through Awareness
Engage with common patterns of reactivity such as desire, aversion, restlessness, and doubt. Learn to relate to difficult emotional states with curiosity and awareness rather than avoidance.

3. The Brahma Viharas — The Embodied Heart Qualities
(Loving-kindness • Compassion • Joy • Equanimity)
Cultivate the heart as a relational and trainable field. Strengthen the capacity for connection, care, and emotional resilience.

4. Transforming Reactivity into Response
Develop the ability to pause, reflect, and choose intentional action. Integrate awareness, emotional regulation, and role flexibility to support meaningful change.

What Each Workshop Includes

• A short didactic teaching
• A guided mindfulness practice
• Experiential exploration through psychodrama and sociometry
• Group sharing and integration

Learning Arc of the Series
Awareness → Meeting Difficulty → Cultivating Resources → Living Practice

Participants move from understanding experience to actively transforming it—developing practical tools for clinical work and everyday life.

Closing Integration
Participants are invited to reflect on their learning, connect insights to their personal and professional lives, and experience the group as a shared field of compassion in action.

Invitation
Discover creative tools for your practice—blending deep awareness with relational action.