Psychodrama – Healing in Action

Senior Trainer in Psychodrama Psychotherapy (UKCP, BPA) and Director of the Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama in the UK. He is also the Co-Director of Change Point Learning and Development Honorary President of the British Psychodrama Association

Dr. Clark Baim is a Senior Trainer in Psychodrama Psychotherapy (UKCP, BPA) and Director of the Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama in the UK. He is also the Co-Director of Change Point Learning and Development, providing training for many different organisations internationally. He is currently the Honorary President of the British Psychodrama Association and is a recipient of the BPA's Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). Clark has more than thirty years of experience in groupwork, group psychotherapy and staff training, focusing in particular on work in prisons and probation centres. He has run psychodrama groups in prisons and has travelled to more than 17 countries to deliver training in psychodrama, attachment theory, forensic psychotherapy, supervision and experiential methods in groupwork. Clark has published widely in the fields of attachment, forensic treatment, psychodrama, co-working and applied theatre. A native of Chicago, he has lived in the UK since 1987. In his early career, Clark focused on applied theatre in prisons. He continues to be interested in the ways in which psychodrama psychotherapy, applied theatre and attachment theory can be combined in creative ways to enhance the effectiveness of psychotherapy.

Co-director at London Centre for Psychodrama Group and Individual Psychotherapy London

Anna Chesner is co-director of the London Centre for Psychodrama Group and Individual Psychotherapy, which trains people to UKCP registration level as group and individual psychotherapists. She is also the course director of the London Centre’s one year cross professional Creative Supervision Diploma, a HIPC recognised training. She is a Senior Trainer in Psychodrama (UKCP, BPA).

As well as her work in the UK Anna regularly runs events in Switzerland and Austria, and together with Jinnie Jefferies has run the first Hong Kong based psychodrama psychotherapy training.
Anna’s recent publications are One to One Psychodrama Psychotherapy, Applications and Technique (Routledge 2019) and Creative Supervision Across Modalities (JKP 2014).

Anna has worked in a number of fields during her career – including learning disabilities and complex trauma. With a background in drama, dramatherapy, group analytic psychotherapy, and playback theatre she is passionate about the place of creativity in work and life. She now works in private practice in London.

Senior Sociodrama Trainer with the British Psychodrama Association

Dr. Ron Wiener is a senior sociodrama trainer with the British Psychodrama Association who awarded him a lifetime achievement award in 2008. He has run diploma, certificate and experiential sociodrama courses and workshops around the world. He has written many book chapters and articles and is co-editor of Sociodrama in a Changing World (Lulu 2011). He is a supporter of XR and will be leading a large workshop on global warming at the 7th. International Sociodrama Conference in Portugal in June.

Sociodrama, global warming, hope and despair

Global warming confronts us personally, locally and internationally on a daily basis. Some avoid the message that nature regularly delivers - fires, floods, melting of the Arctic ice etc. - the Kubler Ross paradigm for loss provides one explanation for this. For others it leads to taking action while for others the result is sinking into depression and despair. This is an issue that therapists will continue to meet in the coming months and years.

Sociodrama, with its use of action methods in a group setting is one way to explore the causes and effects of global warming and by utilising role theory and systems analysis it can enable possible actions to be tried out and feelings explored. As in psychodrama it has three phases - warm up, action and sharing.

Registerpsycholoog NIP, Arbeid en Organisatie Trainer, Educator & Practitioner in Psychodrama (TEP) Leiden, Netherlands

Ina Hogenboom is a registered psychologist (NIP) and a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner in Psychodrama (TEP).

She has a private practice in Leiden in the Netherlands. She offers training, coaching, counseling and supervision for individuals, couples and groups

In addition to working with Psychodrama, Sociodrama and Sociometry, she specializes in work-related health issues, positive psychology and trauma support following major incidents in companies.

Registerpsycholoog NIP, Arbeid en Organisatie Trainer, Educator & Practitioner in Psychodrama (TEP) Leiden, Netherlands

This experiential workshop will contain:

Psychodrama Psychotherapist and Senior Trainer, working in clinical practice in hospitals and criminal justice agencies

Maxine Daniels has worked in the forensic field for over 30 years. She was a National Trainer for the prison service for the Sex Offender Treatment Programme and the Self Change Violence programme delivering training nationally and internationally. She is currently working in forensic hospitals with Elysium Healthcare and Broadmoor Hospital. Maxine is a Senior Lecturer at Metanoia Institute of Psychotherapy in London, teaching on the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy. Maxine has a Doctorate in Psychotherapy from Metanoia/Middlesex University. She is currently a psychodrama psychotherapist specialising in supervision in various hospitals. She delivers psychodrama training and psychodrama workshops in hospitals and private practice.

Working with a Life Map as a therapeutic tool in a forensic context

This workshop will demonstrate how to use a Life Map as a therapeutic tool with clients in the forensic field. The Life Map is a safe, contained tool that is able to capture a timeline of the client’s life. It has flexibility and creativity and can be used to take assessments, therapy-in-action and for skills-based practice. It can also be used as a transdiagnostic approach in mental health. Maxine will demonstrate the technique and show how to use a ‘zoom-in’ technique to highlight areas which will then be worked with in-action. Various psychodrama techniques are used to explore the specific area of the client’s life highlighted on the Life Map.

One to one psychodrama psychotherapy: Applications and technique