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Baltic Area: Baltic Region: <andres.sild@morenokeskus.ee> Announcing the 4th Baltic Moreno Conference on the theme “Everyday Values” on August 24-27, 2006 in Tallinn, Estonia. Speakers include
Päivi Ketonen, Tuuli Vellama, Pille Isat (applications in education); Sue Daniel (..in organizations); Sirkku Aitolehti, Kirsti Silvola, Harri Stenberg (..in therapy); Henna Merikivi and Raimo Niemistö, Inara Erdmanis and Kate Bradshaw-Tauvon, Sue Daniel, leading sociodramas; a lecture by Leif Dag Blomkvist–and 15-20 different workshops, along with Playback theatre. Early registration price: 120 Euros for the pre-conference, and 100 Euros as the Conference fee. For conference information and registration go to www.morenokeskus.ee or
E-mail: konverents@morenokeskus.ee
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Viktorija Vaisvilaite writes from Lithuania, <viva@centras.lt> : The "Baltic Moreno Days" conferences involve people throughout the region. The first was held in Piarnu, Estonia, in 2000, and the second in Jelgava, Latvia, in 2002, and the the 3rd Baltic Moreno Days conference (Theme: Awakening) was held in Klaipeda University, Lithuania August 26-29, 2004. (The website of Lithuanian Psychodrama Society is: http://psichodrama.tinklapis.lt ) (See News of Lithuania on another webpage)
    "Inara Erdmanis" <ina.erd@bredband.net> wrote and noted that this conference happened 2 weeks after the international conference in Oxford. This Baltic conference was attended by 120 participants from 10 differnt counties, including Latvia, Sweden, Norway, Australia, Germany, Israel, Estonia and Lithuania. Every day started with a wonderful puppet show to opera music and the evenings ended with Concert by Vilnius String Quartet and a Jazz Concert. During the days 14 different worhshops were offered with leaders from the various countries. (Inara is a TEP in Sweden and also directs the Latvian Moreno Institute
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   (2005): "Inara Erdmanis" <ina.erd@bredband.net> writes: The Nordic Board of Examiners in Psychodrama (NBBE) includes the following institutes: Swedish Moreno Institute, Norwegian Psykodrama Institute, Finnish Moreno Institute, Helsinke (Finland) Psychodrama Institute, Tallinn Psychodrama School (Estonia), Latvian Psychodrama Institute and Stockholm Psychodrama Institute.The Board meets at least ones a year and next time will be in Riga. Chairwoman is since many years Riitta Hiillos-Vuorinen from Finland.

Bangladesh: Herb Propper ( socitele1@verizon.net ) writes: Starting in 2003, I’ve been back to Bangladesh, just East of India, five times, beginning to develop training in psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry, and theatre for social change. This last visit was from May 23 to June 11, 2007, and involved around 5 different workshops, titled the “National Therapeutic Theatre Workshops 2007,” and held under the auspices of The Bangladesh Therapeutic Theatre Institute, a wing of Unite Theatre for Social Action, Chittagong. These were attended by about 82 participants in all.. For the first 3 trainings, in Dhaka and at Jahangirnagar University, I was co-leading with Joan Murray, trainer from Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne. Sue Daniel, the head of PIM has become a very strong supporter of this project. (Because Joan had to return home unexpectedly, I lead the 2 trainings in Chittagong by myself.) Including other trainers allowed Bangladeshi trainees to experience a wider range of styles and approaches. There are already further prospects for visits by other trainers, including a workshop already scheduled in Chittagong July 25-28.
     There is now an emerging core of people with solid beginning training experience. These people have accumulated anyway from 50+ to 120 experiential training hours. They show a good grasp of the basic methodology and conceptual foundation of psychodrama and sociometry. This was dramatically demonstrated by the work of the 6 student directors in the Chittagong workshops, whose ability to direct a spectrogram, barometer or locogram from generating criterion through sharing was impressive. They and others are beginning to facilitate their own learning through practice sessions between trainer visits and to apply pieces of the method in counseling or non-governmental organization (NGO) community work. The presence and impact of The Bangladesh Therapeutic Theatre Institute is growing. There is now a strong core of both interest and experience within the Clinical Psychology Department of the University of Dhaka, and the Dramatic Department of Jahangirnagar University. There is also interest at Rashshaji University (another provincial capital) which could not be developed on this particular visit, but is definitely a prospect for the future.
          The creation of a Yahoo e-group, “psychodramabd” (bd for Bangladesh) by a faculty member of the Clinical Psychology Department, Dhaka University, has also begun to provide trainees with wider access to essays and internet materials. I am also beginning to provide some email supervision to trainees with significant experience who are using some pieces of methodology in their work. The host organization is Unite Theatre for Social Action (UTSA),
executive director Mostafa Kamal Jatra website: <http://www.utsa.up.to/>
      During my previous visit last August, we formally began the fledgling Bangaldesh Therapeutic Theatre Institute (BTTI). Because of our strong continuing connection with BRCT--- Bangladesh Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims--in Dhaka, the BRCT also formally instituted its "Institute for Psychodrama Research and Rehabilitation"   see their website: <http://www.brct.org/>

Bolivia: May, 2001: Violeta Firestone <firestones@scbbs-bo.com> writes: Economic conditions are hard right now. We have about eight psychodramatists here in Santa Cruz de la Sierra Bolivia, and about fifteen students who are in training. There is a small organization here. We use training materials from both Brazil and Argentina

Canada: (2005) Elizabeth White, M.Ed., T.E.P. (email to: lizwhiteinaction@rogers.com , www.lizwhiteinaction.com writes:)
I am happy to announce the development of the Saskatchewan Centre for Psychodrama in western Canada. Centred in Saskatoon and Regina, on the Canadian prairies, the centre offers four psychodrama training events each year. Some examples of programs: (1) a two-day workshop: Turning Points: Finding Freedom and Rites of Passage; 2) one day workshop, "If Only..,." Action methods and the Seasons of Mourning; 3) Residential four day workshop at Manitou Lake SK, Who am I really? Life Inside and Outside the Box. As all workshops are led by a TEP, hours of attendance may be credited toward American Board Certification. For more information, or to add your name to the emailing list, contact Liz White at the email address above or at (416) 481-3738 or, in Saskatchewan,
Louise Handford, at lmhandford@accesscomm.ca

Chile, May, 2001: Paolo Durán U., of the Center of Psicodrama in Chile, located in Santiago (email: <centro_psicodrama@yahoo.com> writes: Approximately 10 people are doing psychodrama in our country. We have a small "Escuela de Psicodrama de Valparaφso" in that city. Four of our people were trained in Uruguay, and four are at the trainer's level. In 1995, the director of the School of Psicodrama of Valparaiso begins to spread the psicodrama to the university level. We are the pioneers in this methodology. We look forward to more international contacts.

China (Mainland):

2008: Kate Hudgins, Ph.D., TEP, has been active in the last few years in China and returns there April 15- May 20, 2008, to conduct 4 TSM workshops. There will be a Personal Growth workshop in both Beijing and Shanghai where over 100 people are expected for each workshop. She will then go to Huaqiao University in Southern China to conduct her seminal workshop on Containment: The Key to Safety with Action Methods. Kate will be a visiting professor at Huaqiao University starting in the Fall of this year. Finally, Kate returns to Nanjing to conduct a Leadership and Directing group for Level 3 students. TSM China is growing by leaps and bounds and will be opening a Training Institute this Fall in Beijing. Kate is starting two joint ventures with Chinese colleagues. TSM China will market and develop all Therapeutic Spiral Model workshops and Action Solutions China will brand, market and develop the business applications of TSM. Look for a big media campaign starting the summer.

Therapeutic Spiral Method (TSM) Action Trauma Team at a workshop at Shandong University in Eastern China. These are professors and psychologists who are advanced in their TSM training (i.e., for several years!), with Kate Hudgins, the main trainer, in the front, middle. They have reached the levels of Team Leaders, Assistant Leaders and Trained Auxilaries and have traveled to this workshop from where they live and work in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and even Taiwan as well as Shandong.

Also, Dr. Hudgins' book Experiential Treatment of PTSD (Springer 2002) will be translated by the Ministry of Education for the large (5000 people) psychology conference in Beijing in October 2008. Kate and her team of Professors Ruby Shi, Sang Zqhain, and Deng Xuloung will conduct a two day pre-conference workshop followed by several TSM workshops.
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2007:   The 1st international expressive art therapy and psychodrama conference in the People’s Republic of China (on the Chinese mainland) was held in the city of Suzhou (just west of Shanghai) on August 4-7, 2007, and attended by 385 professionals and students. The theme was: “Building a harmonious society through convergence of east-west cultures and psycho- social development.”
     Currently, expressive art therapy and psychodrama have become two branches of the main modalities of psychotherapies in China. Organized by Shu Gong and local dignitaries, it was the culmination of a persistent effort initiated by her in the early 1990's. Shu Gong brought Psychodrama to China and paved the way for Zerka Moreno to lead workshops, the most notable of which was the one on the Great Wall, near Beijing.*
     Suzhou, the host city of the conference, known for its classical gardens, canals and bridges, is dubbed "The Venice of China"; it was a superb location for this wonderful gathering,. It was a great opportunity to present, teach and connect with Chinese and other Asian colleagues and students. Most of those attending were Chinese psychologists, counselors, educators and human resources professionals. The four-day Conference began with keynote speeches and presentations by Gong Shu (that's her name in Chinese), Fan Fumin, Yamanaka Yasuhiro, Marcia Karp (UK) and Jorge Burmeister (Switzerland—he’s also the president-elect of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy). Non-Asian presenters came from various countries: Michael Wieser (Austria); Kate Hudgins (USA) (who has been pioneering with her Therapeutic Spiral Model—TSI—at a number of centers in mainland China); also from the USA: Merri Goldberg, Jacob Gershoni, Ed Schreiber and Adam Barcroft; Natasha Navarro Roldan (Spain); John Devling, Kate Hill (Australia); Elisabeth Koeberl and Elke Normann (Germany); Yaacov Naor (Israel); and Jorge Burmeister    Hudgins & Schreiber also hosted a reception.
     more: http://www.sungfamily.com.cn/hr/    or email to Dr. Tao at <dreamy1029@yahoo.com.cn> .
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Dr Kate Hudgins" <drkatetsi@mac.com> also reports that: I presented at the August conference in SuZhou an Introduction to the Therapeutic Spiral Model to Treat PTSD: A Cross Cultural Perspective with my team Ruby Shi, Deng Xuloung, Fei Jung-Fei and Sang Zqhin. We were very well received. Meanwhile, what else is happening is that I now have 5 centers in China where we are building teams---Shanghai, Beijing, Jinan, Xiamen (in the South) and Urumqi (in the West). My training insitute TSI, Therapeutic Spiral International, is forming strategic partnerships with local psychological centers to provide TSM training in experiential psychotherapy using clinically modified psychodrama, EAP and business consultations. We are also doing private dramas where people contract for a small team to do their own work given the limits of confidentiality in China. (That is because all the workshops are taped for review by the government for subversive material!) Peter (Dummett, MBA) and I did a workshop on dating in Shanghai last month and that was fun. In mid-2007, I will have spent 8 months in China and Taiwan this year by the time I return home Nov. 15th.   For more information: www.therapeuticspiral.org
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Hettie Tu ( happyhettie@yahoo.com.cn ) reports in March, 2007, that she has been promoting psychodrama in Shenzhen (a city near Hong Kong with 7 million people!) since 2002, as a student and translator for the Australian trainer, John Devling. Since that time, she has also organized workshops in Taiyuan (a city of 3 million in Shanxi province, northeast China), Zhuhai (a city of 2.8 million in Guangdong province in the southeast), and so far a total of 150-200 people have attended.

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Eva Leveton visited and taught in China in 2006: Her website "blog" report (which also includes a trip to Tibet) may be read on: http://rolfgross.dreamhosters.com/AlanEvaChengdu2006/AlanandEvaTeachinginChina2006.htm

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Deng Xuyang, M.A. (email: dengxy_hai@sohu.com) teaches psychology at Southeast University Psychological Counseling Center in Nanjing: After Dr. Michael Wieser of Austria presented on psychodrama around February, 2003, about 45 people have continued to be interested. 8 students and 10 colleagues in university, 10 colleagues in high school seem to be more than a little interested in psychodrama. We are also in Jiangsu Province, in eastern China, near Shanghai. There was a previous exposure to psychodrama several years ago when Zerka Moreno and Gong Shu had visited and taught at the Nanjing Brain Hospital a few years ago. A few of us are presently using psychodrama with patients in psychiatric settings in Beijing, Shanghai and perhaps other locations in China. Here, we have started a program using psychodrama with 10 female criminals once a week for three months at the Nanjing Jail, selected because they also have mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and/or suicidal ideation, as well as their underlying personality disorder. So we are interested in our international colleagues' experience in this regard.

China: Gong Shu <gong@artsci.wustl.edu> June, 2004, that she has her book published. Yi Shu: the art of living with change--integrating traditional chinese medicine, psychodrama and the creative arts. (City, state): F. E. Robbins & Sons Press. (Printed in Taipei). ISBN is 0-9666168-7-1, to be in both hardback and softback. The price is to be determined yet. There are more than 80 colored pictures, mostly client's work in case studies. In English (To be translated into Chinese.)
       In March, 2004, I presented a workshop in March at Nanjing Traditional Chinese Medicine University (in mainland China). This was an integration of traditional Chinese medicine, psychodrama and the creative arts attended by 92 professionals, and was a great success, in part, because I understood the culture, many of the dialects and their subtle implication and jokes. I have a one day workshop on June 28 here in Taipei at Taipei medical University. The event is sponsored by the Department of Education. The enrollment limited to 500 people is full. I will also go to Malaysia and China. The Malaysian workshop is sponsored by the oversea's Chinese association. The China workshop is sponsored by Nanjing University.
    The International Zerka Moreno Institute also includes, in Argentina : Monica Zuretti; in Asia and U.S.A.: Gong Shu; Turkey: Deniz Altinay; the Netherlands: Renee Oudijk; West Africa: Jon Kirby; and as consultants: Marcia Karp (England) Greta Leutz (Germany) Cheng Zu Chang (Taiwan), and Lewis Yablonsky (U.S.A.), among others.
       A large conference was planned for 2005, but the resources didn't work. Yet the spirit is there. In 2006, efforts are being made to translate Blatner's two texts into Mainland Chinese.

See Republic of China (Taiwan) under Taiwan.

Croatia: Aleksandra Mindoljeviæ (email: danko.drakulic@zg.t-com.hr ) writes (in April, 2007):
    In Croatia psychodrama was introduced in late 1970s at the Clinical Hospital in Zagreb after the return of professor Stanisa Nikolic, a child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Dr. Nikolic was a student of Prof. Dr. Serge Lebovici, in Paris. (Lebovici was one of the main pioneers of psychoanalytic psychodrama, which is quite different from Morenian psychodrama.). Dr. Nikolic introduced analytical form of psychodrama which is still being used today. I (Alexsandra) was a pupil of Dr. Nikoic and in 2000, I graduated permanent professional analytical psychodrama training under the supervision of prof. Nikolic.
      In 2001. I met Dr. Vladimir Milosevic, psychiatrist and (Morenian) psychodrama trainer in Belgrade and after some time we decided to organize Morenian psychodrama training in Croatia in Zagreb (under the supervision of YUPA- Yugoslav Psychodrama Assoc. and EAP-European Assoc. for Psychotherapy).
       In 2003, the Croatian Psychodrama Association (Hrvatsko Psihodramsko Drustvo) was founded (at the School of Medicine Zagreb University where I have been working for ten years), and a year after we organized An International Psychodrama Seminar - The Third Cross Cultural
Psychodrama Training Days—Theme: "The Group As a Microcosmos"—which was under the
auspices of the President of the Republic of Croatia Mr. Stjepan Mesic. It was a great opportunity for promotion of Morenian psychodrama for the very first time in Croatia.
        In scientific committee there were Maurizio Gasseau, Vladimir Milosevic, Peter Haworth, Oded Nave, Stanisa Nikolic, Susie Taylor and me. 120 participants came from 10 different european countries. Of course, there were many participants from Croatia as well, and some of them decided to apply as a Morenian psychodrama trainee.
        Nowadays, we have two groups of Morenian psychodrama trainees from all over Croatia, from Bosnia, Slovenia and even one lady from Germany. All together forty people, most of them are psychiatrist, psychologist, social workers, actors and stage directors in theatres.
       The trainers are dr. Vladimir Milosevic, psychiatrist and Morenian psychodrama therapist, director of the Psychodrama Institute in Belgrade (Serbia) who is coming every month to Zagreb. Then, prim. dr. sc. Marija Cicek, also child psychiatris (like Nikolic) and analytical psychodrama
therapist from Zagreb (she is retired two years ago) and prof. dr. sc. Ivan Urlic, group analyst and psychiatrist from Split (Croatia). Supervisors are Susie Taylor from England and Slavko Mackic from Belgrade.
     On May 12-16, 2007, the Croatian Psychodrama Association is hosting an International
Psychodrama Seminar "Introduction to Psychodrama" which will be held by Susie Taylor and everyone is invited! All those information and some photos (of trainers, trainees, volunteers and
other) are at our CPA webpages: http://www.psihodrama.hr/   (In the Croatian language—English pages are not, unfortunately, updated from 2005.)
    These days I (Aleksandra) am writing and finishing my first book about psychodrama. It will be a glossary of psychodrama terms with 160 pages and about 150 terms connected with psychodrama, psychoanalysis and group psychotherapy. At the end of the book there is also a short chronology of psychodrama history in the world and in Croatia as well, and a few photos of Moreno. Although it will be in Croatian, I am hoping to translate it into English some day.

Cuba: May, 2001: Gillian Woodward, of England, <gillian.woodward@talk21.com> traveled to Cuba to teach. She writes: Gave an introductory workshop on psychodrama to about 12 psychologists at an International Psychology and Health Conference in November, 2000, and has been invited to go back again this year at the excellent Havana Psychiatric hospital

Denmark: (August, 1999): Ebbe Scheel Kruger (ebbesk@mail1.stofanet.dk ) writes: Around fifteen years ago we only knew of six psychodramatists: Bo Tendal, Ann Sury, Marchen Muller, Ebbe and Else Marie Schultz Rasmussen, and Lone Merethe Paavig, a psychologist–this latter now offering a 3 year training program in Hans Christian Andersen’s old town of Odense. Now we have about 50 professionals who integrate action methods, organized as a sub-group within the Danish Psychology Organization. Most mix together some Gestalt therapy, dance-movement approaches, or other experiential methods. The organization, as it is, occasionally circulates a newsletter. (The dominant style of most group therapists in Denmark, though, still remains verbal and more conventional.)

   England: Richard Oliver, in London ( richard@rendez-vous.demon.co.uk ), the editor of the BPA newsletter, “Tele,” wrote in April 2006: The British Psychodrama Association (BPA) has been established for over 20 years. It currently has 275 members, includes 4 training schools, hosts an annual conference, and works hard to maintain the standard of practice for members and the status of psychodrama. Amongst the 275 members, 200 of these are based in Britain and include a mixture of trainers, qualified practitioners, and psychodrama trainees. The remaining 75 are based overseas – mainly in Ireland, Greece, and Russia. There are 4 established training schools as follows:
     The London Centre of Psychodrama Group and Individual Psychotherapy was founded in 1990. In 1994 a further training school, associated with the London Centre, was set up in Thessaloniki, Greece. The centre offers an annual summer school, beside the sea at Halkidiki, Greece. The senior trainers are Jinnie Jefferies and Olivia Lousada.
     Oxford Psychodrama Group was founded in 1989 and has established a well-known training course based in Oxford. Certain workshops within the course are based at the attractive retreat centre at Henley upon Thames. The senior trainers are Susie Taylor and Peter Haworth.
     The Northern School of Psychodrama was founded in 1996. Training centres are operated in Glasgow, Newcastle, and Manchester. Trainees also benefit from the accommodation and beauty of Fawcett Mill Fields, Cumbria, the venue for their bi-annual residential weeks. The senior trainers are Jenny Biancardi, Dr. John Casson, and Celia Scanlan.
      The MPV/SAM School provides the only training in this country in sociodrama and action methods. This is now well-established and based in Sheffield. Consequently, a further training centre has been set up in Moscow for trainees in Russia. The heritage site of Bretton Hall near Wakefield is the venue for the annual summer school. The senior trainer is Ron Wiener who is assisted by Di Adderley.

   To gain acceptance as a favoured mode of therapy within the health service in Britain in comparison with cognitive and analytic approaches the BPA has recently increased its training requirements for practitioner status so thatand a total of 450 supervised clinical hours are now required. Further details on the new requirements may be obtained by inquiring at their website.
At present, all BPA qualified psychodrama practitioners are able to be registered with the British psychotherapy governing body (currently UKCP). The legal environment in which we operate is changing and the increase in training requirements will ensure that new psychodrama practitioners will be accredited.
      At present, the British government is designing a law to make the registration of psycho-therapists and counsellors a legal requirement. This law is being prepared and is likely to be introduced during 2007 or soon afterwards. Our practitioners are already achieving the required standards and they will have a legal status. It is hoped that this will lead to greater credibility for our members.

Networking Ourselves: To achieve a higher profile for the BPA, we network ourselves – within the psychotherapy community and beyond. To this end, we have (1) a website: www.psychodrama.org.uk which is periodically updated and includes contact details for those wishing to enter training or to attend groups and workshops. (2) The ‘British Journal of Psychodrama and Sociodrama’ is a twice-yearly journal devoted to writing on the theory and practice of psychodrama and sociodrama, including issues related to practice and research. The editor is Kate Kirk: kate_kirk@manx.net. (3) ‘Tele’ is the BPA’s newsletter, also published twice-yearly, and is a small magazine format that is full of news and articles to describe what’s going on in the psychodrama field both in the UK and overseas. The editor is Richard Oliver: richard@rendez-vous.demon.co.uk. (4). The BPA has been hosting annual conferences for at least 3 days to present workshops and allow our members to get together and mark the changes during the year. This has become established as a well-organised event with time for professional development and as a social gathering. The annual conference is open to non-members and details may be found on the BPA web site.

In the 1998 book, edited by Marcia Karp, Paul Holmes, and Kate Bradshaw Tauvon, The Handbook of Psychodrama (published by London: Routledge) is not only informative, but also reflects the type of psychodrama that is going on in the UK. (It has 16 papers covering all stages of a psychodrama session - 305pp.)

International Links: As mentioned above, the BPA has links with Ireland, Greece, Russia, and the Balkans/SE Europe and we will describe the background to these. There have long been members of the BPA in both Northern Ireland and in the Irish Republic. The growth of membership here has been fostered by the work of Catherine Murray, who has run a training school in the south of Ireland for many years.
      The growth of membership in Greece has been encouraged by the London Centre for Psychodrama and Group & Individual Psychotherapy. The London School set up a training centre near Thessaloniki in northern Greece in 1994 and this is running well today. The main tutor Jinnie Jefferies spends her time in both London and Greece to lead the two training courses.
        The MPV/SAM School in Sociodrama and Action Methods was originally set up in Sheffield and opened a further centre in Moscow in Russia several years ago. The main tutor Ron Wiener has fostered this development and now the first Russian students are near to completing the training and qualifying as practitioners – one has already qualified in 2006.
         The senior trainers in the Oxford Psychodrama Group, Peter Haworth and Susie Taylor, provided many workshops for trainers in the Balkans countries of ex-Yugoslavia in south-eastern Europe, namely Serbia, Croatia, and Macedonia. This was a response to a request from our colleagues in the region during the Bosnian civil war. Following the success of these workshops, a workshop for trainees and trainers from across Europe was held in 2002 in Belgrade in Serbia. This was well-received and the event has been held each year since then. The workshop brings together psychodrama trainees and trainers from different countries and is an international psychodrama event that is specifically aimed at psychodrama trainees.
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Great Britain: The British Psychodrama Association is organising the next conference to be held in
Portsmouth, England on 24-26th June 2006. Portsmouth is a traditional English port on the south coast about 90 km southwest of London. Details at BPA web site: www.psychodrama.org.uk   or contact the organiser: jennimetcalf@aol.com
     In 2004, Marcia Karp, a major pioneer of psychodrama was given the J.L. Moreno Lifetime Achievement Award by the ASGPP for over 30 years dedication to the field. Trained herself in the USA, Marcia then became the premier trainer in England for the last 30 years. She now has a private practice in London, runs some groups, and continues to teach internationally. Recently, she taught in Estonia, where she offered a 3-day workshop, attended by 40 people, and another 2-day workshop attended by 30 people, mainly from the Moreno Institute. (The main trainer there is Sirkku Aiotoletti, from Finland.) Later, teaching psychodrama in Verona, Italy, there were about 20 in the group one day and about 30 in the two day workshop. These were students of Giampopo Mazzara, all studying psychodrama with three who had their first experience. Soon she will teach for the fifth time in Japan, hosted by Dr. Yujiro Isoda, a psychiatrist. There are four groups, with about 20 students each, in Osaka, Tokyo, Yokohama and Yamanachi.

     2005: Gordon Parrott <gparrott@gotadsl.co.uk> wrote: The British Psychodrama Association Confernence in late June had as its theme: "Roots & Branches." This well-organized event was attended by about 100 people, with interesting workshops spread over 3 days.
International Sociodrama & Psychodrama Creative Action Methods Summer School, August 22 - 26, 2005, in Bretton Hall, Yorkshire, UK. Led by: Francis Batten and Dr. Ron Wiener (for sociodrama workshop), and Susie Taylor and Dr. John Casson. Email to: ronwiener@27gledhow.freeserve.co.uk   or   joncassun@beeb.net   (Alas, Francis Batten died in late 2005).
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    2005 (The 4th Cross Culture Training Days, involving participants from Serbia, other Balkan countries, Israel, England, and elsewhere, was held in September, 2005, in Henley, England, hosted by Peter Haworth and colleagues. Usually it's held in the Balkans. See Yugoslavia.

Equador: 2006: Joe Romance of Florida reported on his experience attending The First Psychodrama Conference of the Andes, held in Quito, Ecuador, May 18 – 20, 2006. Excerpts of his report follow: Although this was the Third Conference for the psychodrama community of Ecuador, it also for the first time included psychodramatists from other Andean nations, from Venezuela down to Chile. Psychodrama was first introduced in Equador by Esly Carvalho about 10 years ago, and an institute was more formally founded about 3-4 years ago. Dr. Santiago Jacome, Dr. Maria Guadalupe Alcazar and Maria de los Angeles Vaca, major trainers at the Equadorian Institute, organized the conference, which was co-sponsored by not only The Association of Psychodrama and Sociometry of Ecuador (APSE) but also the Venezuelan School of Psychodrama, headed by Dr. Niksa Fernandez, who studied with Moreno. Although the majority of the participants came from Ecuador, there were a number of people from Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina and Brazil. The keynote speaker, Dr. Sergio Perazzo, a psychiatrist from Brazil, warmed up the entire group of nearly 250 participants with songs, sculpts and sociometric exercises, established a sense of safety and confidentiality and directed a very powerful and moving psychodrama. There were 5 concurrent workshops for participants to choose from in every time slot for two full days, with subjects ranging from applications of psychodrama for health care workers, community organizers, educators, and mental health providers as well as organizational and industrial applications. It was a phenomenally good conference.

2004: The main training institute's director, Santiago Jacome Ordonez (email: psdrecu@interactive.net.ec ) writes: The Asociacion de Psicodrama y Sociometria del Ecuador - APSE held the 2nd Ecuadorian Psychodrama Congress with the theme: "Una Puerta Abierta al Encuentro" (An open door to encounter), in Quito, Ecuador, South America, May 13-15, 2004.     For more information, contact Santiago Jucome O. at telefax (593-2)         2440812, Tel (593 -2) 2264300         or   apse_ecuador@hotmail.com
         There were workshops and conferences on general topics such as Bipersonal Psychodrama, Couple Psychodrama, Family Psychodrama, GroupPsychodrama, Organizational psychodrama, Psychodrama and Education, Psychodrama and special groups, Psychodrama and Churches, psychodrama and Community, Other groupal interventions, Other action methods, Other interpersonal and personal growth methods. Methods used include psychodrama, sociodrama, playback theater, sociopsychodrama, organizational psychodrama, educative psychodrama, masks, play of life    The language was Spanish.
    Esly Regina Carvalho <eslyc@attglobal.net>, a former director, now living in the USA, writes: This psychodrama conference in Equador in May was great! There were 180 people, Dalmiro Bustos and his wife came, as well as Lilana Fasano who was the president of the previous International Ibero-Americano Psychodrama Conference. (The next Ibero-American Psychodrama Conference will be held in Mexico City, May 5 - 7, 2005, about two weeks after the ASGPP conference in Miami Beach, Florida.)
     At our Equadorian conference, five of our trainees did their final presentations as workshops. Interestingly, most of them were specializing in educational psychodrama. My daughter, Raquel, who is in training there, at her workshop, sent everyone in the group (in surplus reality) to another planet as a warmup; then had them read the pages about taming the fox, from Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince." Then everyone divided up into the roles of the Little Prince, the Rose (flower), or the Fox. The scene to play was as a re-visitation, after two years of growth and maturation had passed: They were to share about what the experience with the fox and the prince had meant to them (in role). Very nice job, and a lot of fun.
    We had a panel with Dalmiro Bustos, me, Carmen and Liliana on violence and aggression. Dalmiro spoke about tenderness; Liliana shared about her experience with cancer patients, where the violence is within; Carmen spoke about violence in family therapy; and I shared about violence against women.
      There were workshops on some intersting themes: Play of Life (Carlos Raimundo's approach), Magic Shop, Spontaneity Theater, the process of change, senses and feelings, the feared scenes in therapy (this was great!), couples therapy, etc. Dalmiro gave the opening address on "Psychodrama and Tenderness;" I (Esly Carvalho) did a post-congress workshop on Pillars of Life; and Liliana did a sociodrama on living with people who have cancer, very touching.
      We are all very happy with it, especially since it was a big turnout (for us), and four universities gave their endorsement. It was held at the Salesiano University and a bunch of the Pyshoclogy students attended. So we now have six more who have completed their directing test, which brings the total number of psychodramatists in Ecuador to 21!

August, 2000: Esly Carvalho <eslyc@attglobal.net> writes: We now have four training groups with an average of seven people in each group. About half of these people now have over 300 hours. I have recently written and published three books. One, on separation, divorce and remarriage just came out in Portuguese, "Quando o Vinculo se Rompe" (When the Bond Breaks). A second came out in October, in Spanish on Family in Crisis. In January, we published in Spanish, a long-awaited dream-come-true, a . “Manual de Psicodrama,” that contains the basics that students must study and master in order to become certified practitioners. It is really useful for trainers to have guidelines on what to teach, and for students to have direction on what to study and prepare for exams. Available from the Plaza del Encuentro, Casilla 17-08-8633, Quito, Ecuador; $15, plus $5 shipping. There have also been more contacts with other Latin American countries. Our website is under construction and should be ready soon at www.plazadelencuentro.com

Europe: FEPTO:
     May, 2007 The Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organizations will be having their 15th annual FEPTO meeting in Alacati, Izmir, Turkey, in late May, 2007 (by invitation only). Following that meeting, they will have a “2nd FEPTO Post Meeting Conference, associated with the 32nd International Congress of Group Psychotherapies (the theme of which is “Social Cohesion.”
It will be held in Bergama (or Pergamon), in Turkey, from May 30- June 2, 2007,
(And also at the Aesclepion, in Izmir, Turkey) These co events will be referred as “The Congress” and will be organized mainly for psychodrama trainees, trainers and practitioners. While Post-meeting Conference part is only for psychodramatists and psychodrama trainees, the Group Psychotherapies Congress part is open to medical doctors, mental health professionals, social workers and psychotherapists from other modalities as well.
Some of the group leaders will include Eva Fahlström Strömberg (Sweden), for a supervision group in English; Jutta Fürst (Austria); Yaakov Naor (Israel); Jorge Burmeister and Natacha Navarro (Switzerland, Spain) (session in both Turkish / English); Inci Doganer (Turkey);       Maurizio Gasseau (Italy); Arsaluys Kayir (Turkey); Grete A. Leutz (Germany); Gábor and Barbara Pintèr (Hungary); Judith Teszáry (Sweden); Ali Babaoglu (Turkey); Bahar Gökler (Turkey); Emre Kapkin (Turkey)
The openning of Congress is on Wednesday at 10:00 and the closure is on Saturday at 20:00.
        For those who will nor participate in Annual Meeting, we recommend that you make your flight reservations to arrive on May 29 and depart on June 3, 2007 Sunday. Those who already arrived for FEPTO Annual Meeting in Alacati will be taken to Bergama by bus or shuttle on 29th of May.
    Language of Congress: All conferences and lectures will be bilingual (Turkish and English). 3 groups will only be in Turkish; 7 groups will be bilingual (trainers and trainees of FEPTO members institutes are welcomed). If you want to receive more information, please contact   inci.doganer@gmail.com

Previous FEPTO Meeting Reports in reverse order, starting with more recent:

May, 2007: Horatiu Nil Albini sent this photo taken at the Temple of Ephesus at Pergamon (Bergama), Turkey, where FEPTO held its recent meeting: :

A nice photo of a FEPTO choir in Ephesos, after singing from fado to german lieds. Unfortunatelly I cannot attach the sound too. From left to wright beginning with the first raw: Stylianos, Jose Luis, Enrica, Judith, Suanne, Agnes, Ina, Esther, Elena, Jutta, Vanda, Horatiu, Chiara, Gabriela, Michael, Aris, Vladimir, Gabor, Hannes, Karen, Sirkku, Barbare, Loes, Peter John, Nifont.

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2006: Horatiu Albini writes: In May 2006, the Romanian psychodramatists hosted in Cluj the 14th FEPTO conference, Apollon with Dionysos, Theories in Action, with the participation of 57 representatives of organizations from 19 countries. The conference was followed by the first FEPTO post conference that provided a meeting place for the students of the different psychodrama institutes in Europe. Our aim was to look into different theoretical approaches and to form a work group involved in supervision, comprised of trainers and practitioners. The two events were successful, from all points of view, including the pragmatic one.

    Europe (FEPTO) 2005:   The next FEPTO meeting to be held in Vienna, Austria, around April 20-24, 2005): Jutta Fürst, Michael Wieser and the local organizing committee (Mag. Susanne Schulze, Sylvia Zentner, Barbara Farkas-Erlacher, Norbert Neuretter). The start was done with Viennese Waltz and an expressionistic poem of Jakob Moreno Levy suggested and translated from Gretel Leutz. in Bad, where a museum is planned. (An excursion is being arranged to visit Maital 4, Bad Vöslau, near Vienna, where J. L. Moreno lived from 1918 to 1925. (Also, there will be a post-conference opportunity to meet with the organization of Austrian Psychodramatists April 29 - May 1, 2005.)
      The 2006 Annual FEPTO conference is planned for the Spring in Bucharest, the birthplace of Moreno. -- Michael Wieser (http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/~mwieser)

FEPTO (Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organizations): Manuela Maciel writes: The 13th FEPTO meeting was held in Vienna, Austria on all over April 20-24, 2005. The last meeting attended around 60 Psychodrama Training and Accrediting Organizations from Europe to discuss the Minimal Training Standars and other common topics. This meeting included visits to J.L. Moreno House (Maital 4, Bad Vöslau, near Vienna, where J. L. Moreno lived from 1918 to 1925) and historical places for Psychodrama and even projects for the Moreno Museum. The theme was "Bridge over troubled water: Integration of opposites allows differences."
       Addressed as topics included research, psychodrama theory, other fields of aplication besides psychotherapy, certification, training standards, supervision, peace science, ethics, our FEPTO newsletter and website and the dialectics betwen opposites. Also the evolution of the inclusion of FEPTO in the European Association for Psychotherapy was analyzed. And, as always, the dancing, the singing and the FEPTO theatre. The General Assembly was very effective with lots of harmony and the acceptance of new training institutes.
      The topic of the meeting "Bridges over troubled waters: Integrating the Opposites" brought up the discussion about the needed dialectics betwen "passion and structure", betwen "action and words", betwen "art and science" and other opposites that should be more and more integrated for our development as people , as psychodramatists, as trainers and for the psychodrama development in the world..... There were also some cultural and other differences acnowledged and transcended... And some more bridges betwen FEPTO and IAGP also to insure good quality of networking and psychodrama presentations at the next IAGP Congress in Brazil. We also had the opportunity to have a meeting betwen 7 of the authors contributing to the coming book "Advancing theories in Psychodrama" so it would be more integrated and effective. We had very interesting presentations from Leni Verhofstadt from Belgium about conflict resolution and children work using her dialectic model and another presentation from Wilfried Graf from Austria about peace development in Sri Lanka (south of India) using sociodrama., all very interesting.
      And the spirit of Moreno was certainly present:! We had many organized visits to the J.L. Moreno places like his house in Bad Voslau (where some people are trying to do a Moreno Museum), the Augarten gardens where J.L. used to play with the children, the place for the spontaneity theatre (where we were surprised by a performance by the feminine art association that really tested our creativity and cohesion as a group), the refugee camp where J.L. worked and developed the idea of sociometry and sociodrama (Mittendorf, where they have a street with his name), the jewish places and cafes and his grave where we did some gardening... Fascinating...
     In a way the whole meeting was a travel in space and time to the real origins of Psychodrama essence and it brought us the urgent feeling of recreating and continuing in a cooperative mode all of this, in a way that is both creative and cohesive. We thank the Local Organizing Comittee: Jutta Furst, Norbert Neuretter, Barbara Emacher-Farkas and Michael Wieser and the FEPTO Board (more and more effective!) for all their effort in organizing this excellent event!
The next meeting will be in Transylvania, Romania. Warmly, Manuela Maciel <manuelamaciel@sapo.pt>
FEPTO website:   http://members.tripod.com/~portaroma/fepto.htm

June, 2004: The Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organisations (www.FEPTO.go.to) held their annual meeting this year June 2 - 6, 2004) at Kauniainen near Helsinki, Finland. The theme was:Trust, Ethics and Power in Practice. 69 representatives of nearly all countries in Europe and Israel, and new ones from Estonia, came together. Also, Monica Zuretti was a guest from Argentina.
   Gordon Langley (UK) spoke on ethics on the first morning, and Pierre Fontaine on trust. Fontaine found some common ideas between Daniel Sterns new book in 2004 and Moreno eighty years ago. Both speakers formulated four questions to be discussed in small groups. We talked about the influence of third-party payers (insurance companies, government agencies) on the relationships between therapists and clients. Perhaps it's best not to see them as an enemy but to invite the social atom to cooperate. The psychodramatist should take part in pluralistic loyalty and make explicit two things:
   1. That there is trust and a safe place in psychotherapy
   2. The "no" rule: you may say no at any time.

The next morning Maurizio Gasseau and Jörg Burmeister directed a sociodrama on power. First we played the Oedipus myth. In our small group we came to a solution that the shepherd did not have to kill Oedipus but have to balance the former triangulation between Jokaste, Laios and Oedipus. In a middle large group we dramatised the acceptance and rejection of new institutes into our organisation of FEPTO. The large group sociometry gave a majority in not to believe the oracle like in the Oedipus myth.
        The afternoon was dedicated to the question of becoming a European Wide Accrediting Organisation within European Association of Psychotherapy (EAP, http://www.europsyche.org/). Pierre Fontaine informed us and answered many questions also in the small group. At the end we did a spectrogram pro and con, with role reversal, in order to give all sides expression.
    In the general assembly two new members were welcomed:
   -- Associazione Incontro (Centro de Psicodramma y Sociodramma Zerka T. Moreno) in Livorno, Italy.
   -- Institute of Psychodrama and Sociotherapy (IPS) of the Open Psychotherapy Centre (www.OPC.gr), Athens, Greece.

We have just established an ethical advisory board, with Giovanni Boria, Pierre Fontaine, Gordon Langley, Grete Leutz and Ildiko Maevers as members of the first board.. All complaints should be sent to Mauricio Gasseau. The advisory board will decide on mediators.
     The Annual Meeting Committee was asked to get information on different religious holidays. It is a pity that the next meeting is at the same time as important Jewish holidays, Passover.
      For the Research Committee, Michael Wieser was asked to present a report, which is already online under https://www2.uni-klu.ac.at/claroline/160321/     Michael plans to prepare a collaborative FEPTO-Research with Tom Treadwell in the USA, and his method of the Social Network Inventory.
    The new council for the next two years was elected with Judith Teszáry as chairperson, Pierre Fontaine as vice chairperson and together with Aris Zeilstra chair of the training Committee, Maurizio Gasseau as vice chairperson and chair of Ethic Committee and European Affair Committee (with the help of Pierre Fontaine and Michael Wieser), Chantal Neve-Hanquet as treasurer, Horatiu Nil Albini as secretary and website manager, Inci Doganer as chair of the Membership Committee, Jutta Fürst as chair of the Annual Meeting Committee, Wilma Scategni as Chair of the Newsletter Committee, and Michael Wieser as chair of the Research Committee. Many thanks went to the former long-time council members and executives Rene Oudijk, Dorothey Langley, Eva Fahlström, Marcia Karp and Gabor Pinter, who needs a rest but are willing to be of further help.
     This meeting was evaluated and very much thanked to the perfect organizers Merja Tuomisto, Pirkko Hurme, Juhani Viherlahti, Eero Julkunen, Paivi Ketonen and Jari. The next two days they had a post conference on Myth and Cosmos, Basic Images of Nature with Elisabeth Mlasko, Arsaluys Kayir and Roberto de Inocencio.

Europe (FEPTO) (Michael Weiser of Austria writes:) Federation of European and Mediterranean Psychodrama Training Organisations (http://www.fepto.go.to) held its 11th meeting in Estoril, Portugal, April 9 to 13, 2003; theme: Ways of Supervision. More than 50 delegates from 19 European nations came together, Switzerland and Italy formed the biggest group. We divided our training interest in several fields of supervision: Clinical; Educational/social; Art/theatre; Organisation; Combination/encounter; and did our work in small groups. We found out that there is a split between cure and care professionals also in supervision. Rene Oudijk introduced the technique of "via negativa"--that means to start with the worst way to solve a problem and get rid of the fear. In the large group Pierre Fontaine gave us the view that a supervisor is like a grandmother and that he prefers the term "other-vision" instead of supervision. Marcia Karp suggested to divide the supervision field in: Individual, Team, Small group and Group supervision. In the workshop with Pierre Fontaine we stated that for direct or live supervision it is important to have a clear contract and transparency to the patients. Goals of supervision are reflection and ethics. Functions of a supervisor are to be an energizer, empathizer, analyzer and artist. Important issues were burn out, frame, contract, unfinished business, deroling, questions and organisational context like how to work with a co-therapist in supervision.

Pierre Weil, a psychodramatist and professor of psychology from Basil, gave a lecture on his work. He won an award of UNESCO for his peace engagement. He started his training in psychotherapy with psychoanalysis by Igor Caruso and took his humanistic part. Out of a fragmentation crisis in society he build an existential encounter with a sense of life. His cosmo-drama is a kind of transpersonal psychotherapy. With puppets he showed us an example in psychodrama of the dao. For a couple conflict he uses two puppets for each partner, a feminine and a masculine one. Each part is quarrelling with the other. More we can find on his homepage: www.pierreweil.pro.br and his International Holistic University (www.unipaix.org).

The general assembly of FEPTO got new members:
- The International Institute of Human Relations "Dean and Doreen Elefthery" (Spain)
- The Northern School of Psychodrama (Glasgow)
- Istituto de Tecnicas de Groupo y Psycodrama (ITGP, Madrid)
- Associazione Mediterranea di Psicodramma (AMP, Palermo)
- Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Psychodrama (YCTAB. Moscow) and
- Istanbul Psychodrama Institute ans Psychological Counselling Centre (I.P.I.)
The membership fee will stay equal with 165 Euros for training institutes, everything is fine with finances, thanks to Chantal-Neve Hanquet. The next annual meeting will be in Finland from June 2 to 6 with a pre- and postcongress. In 2005 the annual meeting will be the first time in Austria (Vienna), after that in Bucharest, Pamplona (Spain) and Rostov on Dom (Russia). Grete Leutz suggested to open a Moreno Museum in Bad Voslau, near Vienna, at the time of the meeting. Also there will be a donation for the women artists in Maysedergasse 2 with the photo of this Estoril congress.
    The research committee (Marcia Karp) reported on the task to find a common research
design and protocol. On problems with father including a protocol suggestion we can read:
    Verhofstadt-Den ve, L. (2003). The psychodramatical äsocial atom methodô: Dialogical self in dialectical action. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 16, 183-212.
    There is also a new article from: Kipper, D. A. & Ritchie, T. D. (2003). The effectiveness of psychodramatic techniques: A meta-analysis. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research and Practice, 7(1), 13-25.
   Akku Kopakkala brought with him a study from Helsinki: Aro, K., N t nen, P. & Nurmi, J.-E. (2000). L'examen des projectspersonnel au cours d'une psychoth rapie destin e aux personnes souffrant d' puisement professionnel. [The role of personal project appraisals during grouppsychotherapy of participants suffering from burnout symptoms.] Revue Qu b coise de Psychologie, 21, 2-28.
     Here you will find an English abstract:
http://elias.it.helsinki.fi/psyko/Psykolog.nsf/72bffb7fe2e88f9ac225686a0040d818/bb0
2c5f2782a332dc2256a710048a0cb?OpenDocument
    Wilma Scategni does research on unconscious in organisations, see also here newly translated book:
    Scategni, W. (2003). Psychodrama, Group Process and Dreams. Archetypal Images of
Individuation. Brunner Routledge.
      Anja van Impe will collect the psychodrama research in Belgium and share it with us.
Fernando Viera from Lisbon wrote a book on psychodrama and psychopathology in
Portuguese and will translate and publish it in English.
    Maurizio Gasseau from Torino will found a M. A. program in grouptherapy and psychodrama with European partners.
    Pierre Fontaine investigates supervision inside the psychodrama training and will present the results of the questionnaire at the iagp congress (see below).
   Michael Wieser gave three papers to the board of FEPTO:
    -- Research Design in Psychodrama Therapy
    -- Austrian Psychodrama Research from November 2002 to March 2003 and
     – Studies in Treatment Effects of Psychodrama Therapy (revised).

The membership committee (Jutta Fuerst) got new requirements.
     The training committee (Pierre Fontaine) brought minimal training standards with them which were approved.
    The committee of European affairs (Pierre Fontaine) is discussing if the 11 accrediting
organisations in FEPTO should build an EWO (European Wide Organisation) in EAP
(European Association for Psychotherapy). Ren Oudijk, Nel Bax and Hans Verdonschot will work on this.
    The ethic committee (Maurizio Gasseau) shared a Code of Ethics and Practice of FEPTO, we will decide in the next meeting.
     Next psychodrama conference invitations:
http://www.oeagg.at/v.php?v=pd-symposion
http://www.granada-academy.org/english/index-engl.html
http://kongrebergama.tripod.com/ingindex.html
http://www.iagpcongress.org/main.html
http://www.psihodrama.ro/lifeisastage.htm

Join http://www.iagpweb.org/index.htm before the conference and vote for a psychodramatist as president (Marcia Karp).
Thanks to the organiser Manuela Marciel and the board of FEPTO.
-- submitted: Michael Wieser http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/users/mwieser
Attachment: FEPTO meeting photo (on request)

(Spring, 2003) Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger of France wrote (though I've edited): The Federation of Psychodrama Training Programs and Organizations, FEPTO, has been meeting now for almost a decade! Last April, in Sofia, Bulgaria 10-14 April 2002; this year in Portugal--March 2003; and that in Finland: 2004. Last April about 55 of us met, the participants being the directors or major trainers who have training schools in psychodrama all over Europe: Notable were Grete Leutz (Germany), Pierre Fontaine (Belgium), Ella Mae Shearon (Germany), Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger (France), Marcia Karp (England), Eva Roine (Norway), Eva Fahlstrom (Sweden), Judith Teszary (Sweden and Hungary), Renee Oudijk (The Netherlands), Nifont.Dogolopov (Moscow), Gabor Pinter (Hungary), Manuela Maciel (Portugal), Jorg Burmeister (Switzerland), Mauricio Gasseau (Italy), Dorothy Langley (England), Chantal Neve (Belgium), Ildiko Maevers (Germany), and many others--too many to name them all--from those and other countries, including Finland, Ukraine, Bulgaria, etc.. The elections seemed to go smoothly and no political problems were noted. Judith Teszary is the president this year. Thanks to Galabina Tarashoeva and Evgeni Genchev, our hosts and pioneers of training in Bulgaria.

May, 2001: Marcia Karp writes: The Federation of European Training Programs met in March, 2001, in Grasse, France, near Nice, where they have many perfume factories. We founded FEPTO in 1993 in Stockholm with 8 members, and now there were 55 of us from 18 countries including Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Austria, Israel, etc. So exciting to have a place to deal with real training issues amongst colleagues who are involved at the level I am in Training. Perhaps some not so long in the tooth as Anne, Grete, and me but still grappling with philosophical and practical training issues. We had some difficult moments but in general it is a fine and worthwhile organization

April, 2000 : Ildiko Maevers, director of the Psychodrama-Institut fur Europa (PifE) <IMaevers@t-online.de> writes: We have about 23 training groups around Europe, including Hungary, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Norway and more than 15 in Germany alone--this is aside from a number of other psychodrama institutes and training programs not affiliated with our confederation. There are probably about 10-15 people in each group. Recently, the psychodramatists in Germany have been trying to get the state psychotherapy commission to authorize psychodrama for insurance reimbursement and it hasn't yet been able to provide sufficient evidence of efficacy. We'll keep trying. But we are also cultivating a broader range of applications, beyond psychotherapy--in schools ("paedagogic"), in organizational development and in art/theater. Our 5th International Psychodrama Conference "Magic moments" will take Place at Berlin from 14th - 16th September 2001.
As for the relationship between PifE and FEPTO: Jutta Fürst notes that these two European psychodrama organizations have different goals. PIfE is a confederation of some European psychodrama institutes which coordinate training and exchange trainers. FEPTO is an organisation of European (and Mediterranean) psychodrama training organisations with the purpose of promoting a wider recognition of psychodrama and to promote interchange between the members, research and quality-evaluations of the method and to develop training in psychodrama.

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News of Psychodrama Internationally (A-E) (Compiled by Adam Blatner, M.D., T.E.P.)

News of Psychodrama Internationally (A-E)
(Compiled by Adam Blatner, M.D., T.E.P.)