The Covid-19 pandemic has caused us to rethink and reconsider many aspects of our lives. The ways we have done things in the past no longer work or are no longer workable. Social distancing, masks and stay at home orders have made psychodrama and Bibliodrama more challenging. These challenges have also brought innovation, and in…
Category: Bibliodrama
Michigan Psychodrama Center’s Bibliodrama Workshop Featured in the ASGPPs Psychodrama Network News
The Michigan Psychodrama Center recently facilitated a four-hour Bibliodrama workshop via Zoom entitled “Finding Peace in the Midst of Chaos.” This three-hour workshop took place on Sat April 25, 2020 and grew out of the events then taking place around Covid-19 pandemic. Premised on the belief that the pandemic has and will bring profound change,…
Michigan Psychodrama Center to Provide Four Part Bibliodrama Training Series
Beginning in September 2020, the Michigan Psychodrama Center will present a four-part Bibliodrama skills training workshop series. Each workshop will provide successively more complex training regarding how to develop and present a Bibliodrama within various environments, including faith and therapeutic communities. Bibliodrama is a kind of structured sociodrama based on a story of some kind….
What do Bibliodrama, Carl Jung and Jordan Peterson All Have in Common?
All three explore the same essential concepts; that ancient myth is the embodiment and repository of the value system that underlies culture. Ancient myths also contain the embodiment of the universal human experience and are populated by individuals who are themselves the embodiment of archetype. Carl Jung, a Swiss psychoanalyst born in 1875, referred to…
Barone Publishes Chapter Entitled Bringing Scripture to Life with Bibliodrama
The Michigan Psychodrama Center is pleased to announce that co-founder Patrick Barone has published a chapter entitled Bringing Scripture to Life with Bibliodrama in Dr. Adam Blatner’s book entitled Action Explorations: Using Psychodramatic Methods in Non-Therapeutic Settings, (Paralax Productions, February 23, 2019). This book, which has been in the works for over two years, is…
Peter Pitzele’s Book “Scripture Windows; Toward a Practice of Bibliodrama” to be Republished in 2019
Peter and Susan Pitzele’s seminal work, Scripture Windows, Toward a Practice of Bibliodrama, has been republished by the Ben Yehuda Press. Advance copies can now be ordered and are expected to be distributed beginning January 25, 2019. The original book went out of print in 2016. Originally published in 1998, this new edition contains the…
Bibliolog as a Short Form of Bibliodrama
In her book Bibliolog: A Creative Access to the Bible, Uta Pohl-Patalong sets out to first describe how Bibliolog and Bibliodrama are different. The balance of the book provides the reader with a how-to manual for conducting Bibliolog. Uta Pohl-Patalong is a is a German Protestant theologian and Professor of Practical Theology at the University…
Michigan Psychodrama Center to Present Bibliodrama Workshop at 2019 ASGPP Conference
The Michigan Psychodrama Center’s Bibliodrama workshop, entitled Cosmic Forgiveness and Reconciliation, will be presented by Patrick T. Barone, JD, CP, PAT, and Elizabeth A. Corby, PhD., CP, PAT, at the 77th Annual ASGPP 2019 Conference: Discovering New Worlds: Transformational Advances in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. The 2019 conference begins Thursday, May 2, 2019, at…
The White Fire and Black Fire of Bibliodrama
Midrash is often a quite literal commentary on the Torah, but it can also be fanciful. An example of this would be a Midrash about creation where “all the letters of the aleph-bet clamored and begged, “Create the world through me!”[i] In His act of creation, God brings forth order out of chaos by speaking,…
Bibliodrama as a Form of Midrash
Making sense of Scripture requires the very human act of interpretation or exegesis. This exegesis takes many different forms and one of these forms is Midrash. While the term “Midrash” means many different things to different people, in its essence, Midrash is a Jewish form of exegesis of the Torah that has existed for centuries….