From 20th to 22th of January 2012 in Plovdiv was held Psychodrama festival, organized by "Centaur Art Foundation" and the Bulgarian Society for Psychodrama and Group Therapy.
The festival's main aim was to assure a creative space where psychodrama practitioners could share their experience and ideas. The fest was open not only for the psychotherapeutic community, but for wide circles of people: students, artists, professionals in various types of training practices, communication areas, management, business, and others.
For years I believe that the most meaningful thing we can make as a community is to go beyond the therapeutic model of psychodrama. There are many people "outside" who need support, but would not enter into a therapeutic center - Psychodrama should think of them and should sought to work with them. Psychodrama is able to heal even in a non-thrapeutic setting, says my experience.
So I decided to participate at Psychodrama festival Plovdiv'2012 with the workshop "The Encounter".
I set three goals of the workshop:
- To present different models of "encounter";
- To explore the roles in which people come in different social interactions;
- To give an insight to the participants about what psychodrama does.
I defined the workshop's target group precisely in the spirit of "open" psychodrama in which I believe:
"people looking for new experiences and new knowledge, no matter if they are accountants, engineers, graphic designers and students from vocational school..."
The desired end result was: "participants to look at everyday reality in different way".
In my opinion, the workshop was well done. The participants (film director, a student of psychology, two philosophers, a tv professional, psychiatrist, etc.) gave me positive feedback and some of them sent me friend requests on Facebook, through which I judge they really liked the workshop.
I don't have photos from my workshop, but I share a photo form Desislava Daskalova's workshop "One Art - the art of losing", which I attended.