Psychodrama and Inner Aggression: Meeting at the Edge of Conflict

Pre-Conference Workshop – 20th and 21st January, 2010

The key to any dialogue across deep social and political divisions or conflicts is the inner dialogue world of the group leader or the psychodrama director. We need to first encounter the inter relations between the aggressor and the victim roles within us.

This workshop will be a dynamic active process using psychodrama, sociometry and expressive arts therapy. Yaacov will lead us in an exploration of the different ways we internalize experiences in the role of the aggressor and the victim.

These roles are learnt in our family, work and social lives. Some of us tend towards one role more than the other. We can also develop aggression towards ourselves or become unwilling victims of ourselves. Sometimes we even create inner enemies.

Our internalized experience affects our relationships with others and our capacity to work in difficult situations. This becomes essential and critical when meeting others at the edge of deep divisions and conflict.

Leader

Yaacov Naor: MA, CAGS. TEP is Founder and Director of ISIS ISRAEL: a Psychodrama and Intermodal Expressive Arts Therapy center in Tel Aviv. He is a certified therapist and trainer in these fields. He has been teaching in these areas in Europe, the USA, Canada and Israel for the last 30 years. Since 1986 he has been leading special psychodramatic dialogue groups for second and third generation Holocaust survivors together with young Germans, and between Palestinians and Israelis. Yaacov will give a keynote and a short workshop on this work during the conference.

Download article "Theatre of the Holocaust" by Yaacov Naor (PDF 476KB)