Response to psychodrama:
In the article, psychodrama is a role theory of personality through the process of spontaneous role-playing and switch on the stage to greater insight and understanding of human relationships, a more complete and appropriate expression of emotions, and experimentation with new behavior or attitudes in a mutually supportive environment. The role theory is to clarify our understanding of the inner landscape. There are several methods including double, reverse, and mirror.This exercise will help to provide an opportunity to see, feel and even touch some of our inner images by bringing them into concrete, physical reality.
1. Double method is to discover the buried or obscured feelings and thoughts and to express.
2. Reverse provides experiential insight through seeing oneself from the perspective of another and help people to gain an appreciation for the views and feelings of the other in order to expand one’s view.
3. Mirror is that protagonist step out and see the situation as the audience and gain a fresh perspective on a situation that has become confused, intractable or overwhelming.
In the article, psychodrama is a role theory of personality through the process of spontaneous role-playing and switch on the stage to greater insight and understanding of human relationships, a more complete and appropriate expression of emotions, and experimentation with new behavior or attitudes in a mutually supportive environment. The role theory is to clarify our understanding of the inner landscape. There are several methods including double, reverse, and mirror.This exercise will help to provide an opportunity to see, feel and even touch some of our inner images by bringing them into concrete, physical reality.
1. Double method is to discover the buried or obscured feelings and thoughts and to express.
2. Reverse provides experiential insight through seeing oneself from the perspective of another and help people to gain an appreciation for the views and feelings of the other in order to expand one’s view.
3. Mirror is that protagonist step out and see the situation as the audience and gain a fresh perspective on a situation that has become confused, intractable or overwhelming.
questions and concerns:
In the video of Moreno's psychodrama, I observe the audience who stepped on to the stage act very awkward and felt very uncomfortable in such setting. Therefore, I am concern about which kind of practice or environment will make our audience or "patients" to feel free to express and involve in our activities? How shape and space will change the attitude?
There are many people nowadays have depression and anxiety, but many of them don't see them as someone have sickness or don't even want to face it. I want to make a space where they don't feel themselves are in a hospital and see themselves as problematic. They will find a way out.
Further researches:
Horticultural Therapy
Horticultural therapy is one kind of behaior therapy that is positive effect working in the garden had on individuals with mental illness with rehabilitative, vocational, and community settings.The practise assists participants to learn new skills or regain those that are lost.The practise will become a "flow" and help the participants to improve memory, cognitive abilities, task initiation, language skills, and socialization. In physical rehabilitation, horticultural therapy can help strengthen muscles and improve coordination, balance, and endurance. In vocational horticultural therapy settings, people learn to work independently, problem solve, and follow directions.
Therapeutic gardens
There are two types of healing gardens. Passive ones offer a quiet respite from the sterile hospital environment. Active ones are designed for patients who require a variety of therapy-driven activities, from cognitive to social therapies. The pavilion is intended to remind them that they are back to the start as a cycle.
Ted Talk of Florence Williams - Making Spaces of Awe and Restoration:
An inspiration quote from her participant," this trip paddled, and swam, and slept, under star and talk, in the camp around the campfire, cocoons of sadness to full bodied full sensory survivors helping each other relishing new friendships and possibility ahead. When at home it’s overwhelmed, nothing to brace on and I am overwhelmed by bad thoughts and emotions. When I am here, life is simple, there is something to brace on, it’s simple, and balance. power of wildness to heal our psyches. between two pine trees, there is a door leading to a new way of life. there is a simple recipe to improve the quality and meaning of our days and it’s open Muir’s door. Go outside go often. "
From her talk, I find there are several features I need to include in my design: Nature, Organic Shapes and Forms, Simplicity, Openness, Embrace, and Balance.
http://www.florencewilliams.com/
Two interesting scientific find outs:
Pollock's painting has the same pattern as a tree to our brain. Pollock’s favored dimension is similar to trees, snowflakes and mineral veins. “We’ve analyzed the Pollock patterns with computers and compared them to forests, and they are exactly the same,” said Taylor. This dimension does more than lull us; it can engage us, awe us and make us self-reflect.It’s simply an efficient search strategy, said Taylor.
At UC berkeley, there is a huge oak tree which has never been removed and used for psychologist to study about nature. The scientists test the brain waves between people looking at the oak tree and a building next to it. The datas reflect that people will feel much more relax by looking at the tree. “The stress-reduction is triggered by a physiological resonance that occurs when the fractal structure of the eye matches that of the fractal image being viewed.” If a scene is too complicated, like a city intersection, we can’t easily take it all in, and that in turn leads to some discomfort, even if subconsciously. It makes sense that our visual cortex would feel most at home among the most common natural features we evolved alongside.
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