A Psychodrama Workshop on Zoom: The Healing Power Of Community

Presenters: Lusijah Marx, Graham Harriman, Robin McCoy, and Johnny Olesen
Sunday, October 27, 2024, 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM CT

Join Lusijah Marx, Graham Harriman, Robin McCoy Brooks, and Johnny Olesen for a 2-hour presentation on the origins and applications of ”The Healing Power of Community Mutual Aid, AIDS & Social Transformation in Psychology.”

Description:
“The Healing Power of Community” emerged from the authors' collaborations during the height of the AIDS crisis, leading to the formation of Project Quest, an HIV/AIDS clinic, in 1989. The authors discuss how the application of mutual aid-based approaches in group and community psychology are a remedy to our culture’s retreat into individualism, societal breakdown of community, and collective loss of Eros. They advocate for integrating Psychodrama and Mutual Aid practices into group and community settings to transform training, teaching, practice, and research in mental health. They argue that mutual aid practices have the potential to extend beyond psychology into our everyday lives, addressing the systemic degradation of democratic values and broader socio-political factors that undermine the sacredness of life.

This presentation will be a discussion format with participatory experiential components.

Objectives:

Identify three characteristics of mutual aid based process therapy groups.
Describe how the principals of mutual aid based group psychology can be applied to training, supervision, consultation, advocacy, conferences and research in the discipline of psychology.
Identify three luminaries of group and community mutual aid based psychology in the American continent in the last century.

Presenters

Lusijah Marx is a nurse, clinical psychologist, and psychedelic facilitator in Portland, OR. She co-founded the Quest Center for Integrative Health Care and founded Radiance Integrative Health and Wellness.

Graham Harriman is a long-term survivor of HIV, a psychotherapist, and Chair of the CAEAR Coalition. Most recently he served as the Director of the HIV Health and Human Services Planning Council of New York at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Robin McCoy Brooks is a Jungian analyst, and a TEP (Trainer, Educator, and Practitioner of Group Psychotherapy, Sociometry, and Psychodrama). She authored Psychoanalysis, Catastrophe & Social Change (2023), winner of the "Best (applied) Book" award from the International Association for Jungian Studies.

Johnny Olesen wrote the Foreward to the Healing Power of Community. He is a Trainer, Educator, and Practitioner (TEP). He has worked in various AIDS organizations including New Mexico AIDS Services, the Bailey-Boushay Hospice, San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Shanti Project in San Francisco where he served as Clinical Supervisor for over 10 years. He is a member of a Queer BIPOC playback troupe, High Desert Playback.

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Cost: $60 (with a sliding scale $20-$80 depending on your comfort)

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NOTE: Participants will be eligible to receive 2 HOURS training approved by the American Board of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy (ABE).
All proceeds benefit the the Moreno Foundation and are tax deductible using EIN 87-4447896

Because space is limited, we are taking registrations for trainings from the Educational Committee for the JACOB AND ZERKA MORENO FOUNDATION FOR PSYCHODRAMA, SOCIOMETRY AND GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY November 23 ON ZOOM, and IN PERSON workshops in downtown Chicago on October 26 and December 21, 2024