January

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th January 2024 On Zoom

Ritual in Psychodrama: the 4 Universals

This workshop will invite participants to consider that there is much more to ritual than the ceremonial activities associated with religion. Perhaps we undertake a form of ritual when we tend to the human body, the time of day, each other, the divine, to ground us in the material world and the daily grind. Kellermann believes the entire procedure of psychodrama is a form of ritual, and he draws the parallel of the use of ritual in real life to assist transitions (Kellerman, P. Focus on Psychodrama, 1992).

This workshop will take participants through the process of psychodrama to explore this concept. Participants will be invited to consider the stages in the process of psychodrama as a series of shared rituals, and to reflect on whether rituals are observable in the application of the core techniques of scene setting, doubling, mirror and role reversal.