9th International Sociodrama Conference, 1rst-5th July, Çanakkale, Turkey

 

Final Meeting of FEPTO's Annual Meeting: in the deep earth, at 120 m deep, in the Salt mines of Tudra (15/05/2025)

 

FEPTO Theater

"Who is the leader?" was the topic of my group. We couldn't find a pilot to conduct the airplane in the journey we are living...

 

FEPTO's Annual Meeting: the group of participants

 ... in front of  Mattias Rex Monument, besides Saint Michael Cathedral:

FEPTO Conference: the whole group of participants, Cluj (Romenia), May 2025

 

Our workshop "From a Sociodrama perspective: How can schools contribute to build a more inclusive and peaceful communities?"

 Abstract:

Schools are much more then places of knowledge transmission. They are social lab settings that from one side mirror what is happening in society (wars, multiculturality and conflictuality, climatic changes, digital and screen dependence), but from another perspective they can provide valuable social learning and living experiences that may contribute to build more inclusive, peaceful, democratic, spontaneous and creative communities.

Moreno challenged us to transform our conflicts and tensions, in a creative and nonviolent way, by reversing roles with each other, by role plays, by stepping in the shoes of the others, by enacting our dreams. In educational settings, from kindergarten to university level, these techniques can be used to address many curricular issues but also conflicts and other topics. They allow us to live in the present and valuing it, but also to project us in the future, becoming aware that we are building it in the «here and now».

In this workshop we will use expressive and creative action methods, based in sociodrama. We will start from sharing our experience and what we value in learning settings like democratic participation, finding together solutions for emergent problems and role playing curricular contents. We also will build simple masks and play fairytales characters. So we will : (i) explore, by using sociometry, some group features ; (ii) we will play conflicting situations by «role reversal» and discovering the broader social athom ; (iii)  we will enact fairytals characters and build their masks ; (iv) we will share our dreams and reflect on the role of teachers and schools to contribute to deal with diversity and todays problems.

Learning objectives:

-            - To use sociometry in learning settings ;

-            - To explore conflicting situations by social athom and rôle reversal;

-            - To acknowledge the potential of using creative action methods in learning settings.

 

 

SSome photos of the workshop

 

  

Messages from what they learned
When asked for a message for the group, for the conference, for the city, the country for Europe and for the world, the group said:
- Play more!
- We need to be creative!
- Trust more!!
- How powerful and creative we can be all together!
- Take more time to clarify conflicts and issues!!
- Take time to acknowledge everybody.

Some links more:

Mario Buchbinder and Elina Matoso – Instituto de la Mascara (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

- Workshop organised by IAGP (translated): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaur4EliBQk

-Instituto de la Mascara: https://mascarainstituto.com.ar/

About our work: 

Belchior, M. (2023). ‘Sociodrama with Art’ in a multicultural context: The pacific Portuguese Carnation Revolution. In J. Damjanov & M. Westberg (Ed.), Discovering the Languages of Peace - Handbook of Sociopsychodrama, pp. 87-100. https://discoveringlanguagesofpeace.weebly.com/publications.html

 

Belchior, M. (2021a). "'Role-play' of human body - as if we were ...". In K. Galgoczi, D. Adderley, M. Belchior, Á. Blasko, J. Damjanov, , M. Maciel, J. Teszary, M. Werner, M. Westberg (2021). Sociodrama: The Art and Science of Social Change. PERFORMERS Project (ERASMUS +). L’Harmattan, 41-42, https://sociodramanetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/sociodrama_the_art_and_science_of_social_change_nyomdai.pdf

 

Belchior, M. (2021c). Becoming a Sociodramatist: Sociodrama in Education. In D. Adderley, M. Belchior, Á. Blasko, J. Damjanov, K. Galgoczi, M. Maciel, J. Teszary, M. Werner, M. Westberg (2021). Sociodrama: The Art and Science of Social Change. PERFORMERS Project (ERASMUS +). L’Harmattan, 266-286, https://sociodramanetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/sociodrama_the_art_and_science_of_social_change_nyomdai.pdf

 

 

 

Starting the FEPTO Conference, in Cluj (Roménia)

 

FEPTO Conference, Cluj-Napoca (Roménia), 2025: workshop "From a Sociodrama perspective: How can schools contribute to build a more inclusive and peaceful communities?"