Publisher's Synopsis
This book is for all those inner explorers who have an interest in group work and psychodrama as well as those who believe the living spirit of spontaneity is a central and fundamental part of their humanity. Something the soul can delight in. Twelve trainees get together with Dr. Max Clayton for a three?day psychodrama training workshop on group leadership and the enriching experience of being a director?producer. The workshop was videoed and the work of the participants is given here as selected dialogue and pictures. After the workshop, Max and Philip viewed the workshop videos and discussed the many unfolding dramas and the work of both the psychodrama trainer and the trainee. In their lively conversations, the authors discuss the workshops in depth and closely examine the practices and convictions of a psychodramatist and group leader. Max and Philip carefully consider and reflect on the theory, the experience and the professional practice of a psychodramatist. They examine the real difficulties that trainees and trainers face.;There are illustrations of how to become adept in the arts of dramatic production and group work, of how to fully relate to immediate their experience and direct expression, and of how to infuse thinking with feeling so intelligence is developed. Along the way, they also explain the precise ways these can be achieved. There are specific examples of spontaneity training as it moves between the real world and the world of imagination where the vision is refuelled with lightness and laughter. The authors pinpoint the emergence of friendliness and discuss how precision can be developed in the training and practice of sustaining intimate contact.
