UK

Zoli Figusch

UK

Saturday

3rd December 2022

4 hours

The Melting Clock A Psychodrama Technique for Grief Work in Individual Therapy
Experiential Zoom Training Workshop

This experiential zoom workshop will explore loss and grief from the perspective of psychodrama theory, and the psychodramatic technique of the ‘melting clock’ developed by the presenter, specifically aiming at processing stuck, unresolved or pathological grief. The technique was originally developed for face to face work, but can also be adapted to online psychotherapy work via video platforms.

The work will include relevant aspects of theory and practice related to working with grief and loss, with the following aims:

  • to identify the origins of grief reactions - the infant’s early experiences of relating and separation within the matrix of identity serve as the blueprint for our experiences of gains and losses, and consequently for the grief reactions experienced at the loss of a significant other
  • to compare the healthy evolution of grief reactions to the pathological or unresolved grief processes
  • to look at surplus reality and psychodramatic montage, and how their combination offers a valuable tool for working with unresolved loss and grief – the ‘melting clock’ technique
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New York / Boston

7am - 11am

Sao Paulo / Buenos Aires

9am - 1pm

London / Lisbon

Noon - 4pm

Rome / Paris

1pm - 5pm

Moscow

3pm - 7pm

Tokyo

9pm - 1am

Melbourne

11pm - 3am

The session will be experiential, with demonstrations of the ‘melting clock’ technique, allowing participants to consider how to incorporate this into their own practice.

The workshop will offer 4 continued professional development training hours (CPD).

Zoli Figusch is a psychodrama psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer, a member of the British Psychodrama Association (BPA) and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). Zoli is a member of the BPA’s Executive Committee and their representative to FEPTO. He is also the series editor of the newly re-published series of J.L. Moreno’s books. For his involvement with this work, in 2013 he received the ASGPP’s ’Zerka T. Moreno’ Award. Zoli is the editor of three psychodrama books: ‘Sambadrama – The Arena of Brazilian Psychodrama’; ‘From one-to-one psychodrama to large group socio-psychodrama’; and ‘The J.L. Moreno memorial photo album’. Zoli works as a principal psychotherapist at a specialist psychotherapy service for clients with personality disorders, in Maidstone, UK. In 2021, Zoli has received the British Psychodrama Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.