by:
Georgi Stankov
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.
