Sociopsychodrama: The Languages of Peace

We wanted to help professionals who work in the field of mental health, social work, education, public policies and research to advance and develop these competencies which can help them to bring ...

We wanted to help professionals who work in the field of mental health, social work, education, public policies and research to advance and develop these competencies which can help them to bring new effective strategies and practices into their work in order to make these processes more efficient for their clients, learners or communities they work with. In the globalized world where polarization is increasing, while democracies are threatened, and the war and the climatic changes oblige many human beings to migrate and to become refugee, in addition with the unfair distribution of resources and the growing of poverty, there is a need to face these challenges which affect all social levels from the planet level to the country and community level, the family and individual level. Sociopsychodrama as a method learns people who work with groups how to deal with all these issues and therefore is important to be available as a training to as many professionals who work with groups as possible. The main objective of this project was to contribute to the efforts of transforming conflicted communities and societies,healing traumas and building long term peace by increasing the competencies of the professionals, practitioners and trainers

We had 3 webinars where each webinars consisted of 4 zoom sessions, so it was in total 12 zoom sessions. Also, we had 5 days of Spring school where participants met at the University of Zadar and were able to learn in presence and exchange knowledge with more experienced professionals from the field of Sociopsychodrama. Also, we had 2 follow up meetings on zoom in order to evaluate the whole process of webinars and spring school and to be able to reflect about curricula development. The program of webinars, spring school and curriculum is uploaded where the project results are https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects

The concrete outputs and results which were planned inside the project are: - successfully done 3 Webinars and Spring school in Zadar - written and printed and published The Handbook of Sociopsychodrama - published and uploaded to many platforms electronic version of the Handbook of Sociopsychodrama - written curriculum - learned 32 professionals basics of sociopsychodrama and how to use it working with vulnerable, marginalized and discriminated groups Results that were not planned (overachieved results): - we created a website for the project https://discoveringlanguagesofpeace.weebly.com/ - published as electronic e book "Collection of group stories made by participants" (uploaded on project platform) - published "Collection of group stories made by participants" as appendix to electronic version of the handbook - Dissemination of project and handbook in the sociopsychodrama conference held in Sweden in Stockholm from 16.8.-19.8. where Jana Damjanov had a lecture about it.