March 5 & March 12, 2022: Dreaming the Stage: Psychodrama/Sociodrama and Social Dreaming Matrix (SDM); Daniela Simmons & Domenico Agresta

International TELE'DRAMA Institute (ITI)
is offering ONLINE Two Experiential Workshops:

Dreaming the Stage:
Psychodrama/Sociodrama and
Social Dreaming Matrix (SDM)

Directed by Daniela Simmons & Domenico Agresta

Saturday, March 5 & March 12, 2022
10:00 AM - 01:00 PM Central Time (US & Canada) - Dallas
05:00 PM - 08:00 PM Central European Time (CET) - Rome
(Attend Both Sessions or Just One)

Saturday, March 5, 2022:
Dreaming the Stage: Psychodrama and Social Dreaming Matrix (SDM)

Saturday, March 12, 2022
Dreaming the Stage: Sociodrama and Social Dreaming Matrix

Language: ENGLISH

Description:
Dreaming the stage is an innovative experience, co-created by Daniela Simmons and Domenico Agresta, that combines the social dreaming matrix (SDM) and the 4 stages of Moreno’s modality on dream-work.

The Matrix is a container and a process too. During a matrix we can observe how our mind is building new thoughts using the free association and the amplification. In this sense, we can easy think about the creation of an icon that represents the matrix in its self and the meaning or question that the collective is creating sharing the dreams.

The Matrix through the free associations of dreams observes its self and the collective find the origins thanks to the creative role of amplification and connection between dreams. In this sense we can think as a double foundation myth.

Because the dream is a foundation myth in its self the matrix becomes an experience in which people can create and experience the possibility to act and play into the Hyper theme of the matrix.
Our hypothesis is that the matrix becomes a special dream-catcher thanks to the dream-work and new thoughts generated from the matrix too. The place and the process are the field in which the dreams can be acted and discovered in a different point of view.

In this workshop, the matrix as a dream-catcher means to demonstrate and use Moreno’s approach to dream-work through action methods. Because the SDM is an action research methodology, we want to observe and work starting from the matrix to acting the theme (the dream icon) because acting a dream means offering an alternative to the verbal account; in fact, the action techniques enable the clients to understand their dreams by themselves, instead of being analyzed.

Cost:
Both workshops, Professionals and General public: $150
One workshop, Professionals and General public: $80

Both workshops, College students & Retirees: $100
One workshop, College students & Retirees: $60

For partial scholarship opportunities contact zoomroom.international@teledrama.org
Payment, in case of cancellation, will be credited to future workshops.

Participants receive

Up to six (6) hours for certification through the :

American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy (ABE)
International Society of Experiential Therapies (ISEP)

You will receive the zoom invitation via email.
The best way to participate is through your computer; however you may attend via a tablet or cellphone.

Presenters:

Daniela Simmons, PhD, TEP, Creator of Tele’Drama, Founder and CEO of Tele’Drama International; International trainer & supervisor; the current President of the American Society in Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP) & and a recipient of the 2022 ASGPP Innovator's Award for the creation and implementation of Tele'Drama. Daniela Simmons' professional experience, both in Europe and the US, is in educational, research, and consultancy work in the social sciences and mental health. She received training on the psychoanalysis of group relations in organizations at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, headquartered in London. She has been utilizing action methods sessions since 1995 in Europe and since 2005 in the United States.

Domenico Agresta, CSPP (Center of Psychology and Psychosomatic Medicine); IAGP, formerly Trustee of the Gordon Lawrence Foundation, now a member of Social Dreaming International Network. He works with SD studying Rites of Passage, Religious Rites and cultural contexts. A clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, group-analyst and psycho-oncologist. President of the Centre for the Study of Psychology and Psychosomatic Medicine (CSPP); studies the correlation between mind and body, links to anthropology and group processes using dreams icons. Board Member of the Italian Society of Psychosomatic Medicine (SIMP). Academic Member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA); Chair of Family Therapy Section and Chair of Webinars Committee in IAGP.