Background: Emotions are the barometer of credibility and authenticity. Some have locked a whole set of emotions into a closet, to be forgotten by themselves, which often form a mob of feelings demanding attention. Psychodrama is a useful tool in the healing of emotions and finding new possibilities beyond the trauma.
!. Warm up to the story.
A. Safe place, safe person
2. Methods to tell the story.
A. Facts, Feelings, Values
B. Trauma Map, Trauma Egg
C. Pictures, toys, sculpture
3. Enactment of the story
4. Offer Corrective Experience
A. Act Hunger
B. Reformed Protagonist
5. Future Projection
6. Sharing
7.Processing
A. Questions and Answers
Hemispheric considerations of left brain=logic, cause and effect reasoning, verbal processing, linear thinking, put words into feeling states and perceptions, whereas the right brain=non-linear, holistic (big picture) thinking, intense emotion, body sense, social awareness, interprets non-verbal communication, images, themes, and sense of personal self. The communication needed to assess and share a coherent narrative requires that both sides work together. If they can't, the story is chaotic and confusing, and the outcome produces an attempt that becomes overwhelmed with feelings and thoughts or superficially logic-lacking emotional depth. Psychodrama allows clients to access a greater number of appropriate roles, helping them re-own and recapture the disconnected and disowned part of their self. The balance of connecting to these parts allows a reality that touches the total person (affect, behaviors, cognitions, and spiritual) This process allows clients to rework the developmental process in which they are stuck by re-experiencing and practicing in a safe environment; in effect, "re-wiring" their brain to develop a coherent story.
Quote by Daniel Siegel: "Fate is not destiny". If you can make sense of your story, you can change it.
Mary is an award- winning national and international speaker who has been leading seminars, retreats and workshops for over 30 years. Mary is a clinician known for her work in the field of eating disorders and addictions. She has been privileged to work with many of the premiere treatment centers offering training in leadership, psychodrama, strategic planning and program development. Having served as past-president, Mary continues as a member of the iaedp Board of Directors.
