Thursday, December 19, 2013

Review on Psychodrama therapy and depression workshop 心理劇體驗工作坊- 心演抑鬱情 (III)

I just had the experience in the course. It was a self searching journey, a communication with our inner world in a physical and spiritual forms. Despite a short course, we all get to see ourselves in a depth and got to know how to conquer depression and help others as well to some extent.

I was happy to study with a group of professionals working in the field of health, social care, education, training. As a hypnotherapist, I am thinking how to apply psycho-drama therapy as a group therapy in individual process and self- hypnotherapy - inner drama process.

In fact the course was very challenging to me in terms of using English.

The general feedback was this course is very practical in helping people to know themselves and to communicate better. And it is more effective than traditional phsyco-therapies in handling emotional issues in daily life as it is very flexible, creative, spontaneous.

Here is the wiki's words on its purposes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodrama

In a session of psychodrama, one client of the group becomes the protagonist, and focuses on a particular situation to enact on stage. A variety of scenes may be enacted, depicting, for example, memories of specific happenings in the client's past, unfinished situations, inner dramas, fantasiesdreams, preparations for future risk-taking situations, or unrehearsed expressions of mental state in the here and now.[2] These scenes either approximate real-life situations or are externalizations of inner mental processes. Other members of the group may become auxiliaries, and support the protagonist by playing other significant roles in the scene.[2]

Action Methods are used to enable past, present and future life events to be explored. Issues or problems and their possible solutions are enacted rather than just talked about.
Whether we are seen as stereotypes or as individuals depends upon our language and perspective. The art of psychodrama includes the recognition of a person's private and metaphorical language and the use of multiple perspectives to elicit the subjective experiences of the protagonist, the director and the group members.
Psychodrama can be used in a group or individually for therapy and personal growth. It can also be applied to family and couples therapy.

I learnt not only from Anna, the trainer, but the helpers and from our own classmates. It was grateful to see people can be open-minded  to share their intimate, repressed feelings, experiences through a safe and trustful environment, making me feel the world is getting smaller, warmer and all people are similar inside when we see ourselves subconsciously. We can become more connected if we learn to talk to our heart.

A lot of self reflection along the way of our own real life dramas here:
1
Depression comes from high expectation of ourselves, inner child shadow and from our body malfunctions, etc. From mirror effect, we can see ourselves and others from the outside, thus understand both better. This is a turning point to be compassionate, understanding, let it go
 ( 放下), to be honest to our true self. Learn to love ourselves!
2
Happiness starts from families, starting from a happy childhood. As a parent, learning to set our children free is crucial. Over protection can be a pressure and burden in children and parents themselves.
3
To get detached from a confused, deeply attached situations are not easy. But to have further suffering from the lousy relationship is harsher to self and others. Here I  learnt to see things in different points of view, get a new insight and attitude towards people, and move forward.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodrama
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-healing-crowd/201011/what-is-psychodrama

20-12-2013



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