http://empower-daphne.psy.unipd.it/userfiles/file/pdf/Daniel%20S_%20-%202006.pdf This is an article by Sue Daniel regarding some ways of working with young women in individual psychodrama one on one and group and family. Nice discussion of roles and active listening techniques. http://empower-daphne.psy.unipd.it/userfiles/file/pdf/Daniel%20S_%20-%202006.pdf

Dear psychodrama researcher and practitioner, Dear FEPTO colleagues, In the attachement you will find the report of the FEPTO Research Committee Meeting in Budapest. We could welcome 34 researchers and practitioners from 16 European and Mediterranean countries who were presenting,…

Take a look at www.narrative4.com on teaching young people to share their stories and take on on a another’s stories. This is very Psychodramatic.

It is interesting to think about what play actually is, and how it might be researched further. Play is of course central to Moreno’s thinking. Here is an article on the theory of play from another important thinker. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1525/aa.1971.73.1.02a00040/asset/aa.1971.73.1.02a00040.pdf?v=1&t=hu2s0pjw&s=4f92198c998d2441a969b33f4d1385333fb719dc

Some of you will recognize this video from Dan Tomasulo’s talk at ASGPP’s annual conference. It suggests that we have a lot to share. Paul Zak on the Future of Storytelling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHeqQAKHh3M

Finding Love Later My name is Kathy Norgard. I live in a small mountain town in Colorado. After my husband died, I thought it would be my dog and me for the rest of the days. Unexpectedly, I met a…

Dan Tomasulo proposes positive stories as therapeutic interventions and his article is available online at http://www.psychologytoday.com/files/attachments/50533/psych2012123116562691-29.pdf

During the recent ASGPP conference a question struck me.  The psychodrama community likes to come together to enact what is up for us.  That is different from what goes on at many other professional conferences I have attended such as…

http://www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu/ppquestionnaires.htm lists instruments for researchers that the positive psychology program at U of Pennsylvania has put together.

Barbara Frederickson of the University of North Carolina works on positivity.  You can find her at http://www.unc.edu/peplab/publications.html.  The site includes a number of her papers on her research on the topic of how positive emotional states serve long term well…