Network Committee Chair, Yaacov Naor, encouraged us to form a new network group following “Matrix Group”.  I did the coordination via FEPTO Newsletter and in 2011 we started our first network group in Jerusalem with 19 members.  To see the members sitting in the circle was very comforting for me. We were there and we started building our psychodrama house.

Who lives in this psychodrama house? Roberto de Inocencio, Jutta Furst, Georgios Chaniotis, Agnes Dudler, Arsaluys Kayir, Dana Dragoteanu, Eva Fahlström Borg, Hannes Krall Horatiu Nil Albini, Rosa Shemesh, Judith Teszary, Kostas Letsios, Marcia Karp, Manuela Maciel, Maurizio Gasseau, Gabor Pinter, Rosa Shemesh, Luciano Moura, Leandra Perrotta and Stylianos Lagarakis.

Then we moved to Oporto to our host Luciano Moura’s office for our second meeting. Psychodrama leaders are group members in a leaderless intervision group. Not so easy! Who is absent, why, where do we go next, when, doodle will do it. We take care of each other. Dancing, singing, a marvellous closure at the shore of Porto. Love is everywhere.

Third meeting was recently done in Istanbul where Arsaluys -me and Stylianos were hosting the group. The group worked at “Psychodrama and Group Therapies Association Center”. So much to do in the group. I feel motivated like the first years of my psychodrama training. Learning and feeling. I love to be in this group. A nice, childish satisfaction with my grown-up playmates at my home parties. We are creating, I feel free enjoying, feel togetherness. We open our doors for our friends.

Now looking forward for Athens in October 2012.

Arsaluys Kayir
Group coordinator

This group was born in 2011 in Neve Shalom in Israel after a common wish of members of that annual meeting to work together. Under the framework of the Network Committee, the ―TIP Group was born – Transcultural Intervision Group. With 19 members of 12 different countries are meeting twice per year.

Almost everybody is present during our two days meetings. There is a high commitment to the group.

During the meeting we try to learn different approaches of the psychodramatic techniques that are used by all of us, depending on our country-culture and on our different psychodramatic approach (classic, group analytic, Jungian, Clayton, etc.). Members often bring institutional themes which we intervise, with a fruitful result. Being a member of TIP group is a very interesting experience and a great lesson professionally.

We recently met in Innsbruck hosted by Jutta Fürst and Udo her husband. Jutta started working in details months before our meeting and everything ran in a perfect way. This was our 6th meeting. Going backwards: Innsbruck, Santander, Athens, Istanbul, Porto and the first in Israel. Here are some of the feelings of the group members after our last encounter.

It was such a pleasure for me and Udo to have had you here at my place and to share with you a bit of my life. When I walk now through my town I feel you are with me. How marvelous to have you still here.

We had our “family” together again and it was a wonderful meeting. We are all thankful for Jutta’s and Udo’s generosity and hospitality. It was a very fruitful meeting and it has warmed me up to new things in myself. I have enjoyed the meeting as I have enjoyed them all. Always a learning experience. A lot of nice pics are still on my mind from Innsbruck. I feel that our works were a step for better cooperation and creativity. Thank you for the experience. I love you and have each of you in my heart.

It was a fruitful TIP in a good and warm atmosphere. Our TIP house is growing and it feels like a home with lots of colors in a very warm atmosphere. …and to look at the very special moments we had. Thank you for everything I had received. It was a wonderful feeling to get so much warmth and I felt very lucky. With all the beautiful images of Innsbruck.

To remind you who we are: Agnes, Arsa, Dana, Eva, Gabor, Georgios, Hannes, Horatiu, Jutta, Judith, Kostas, Leandra, Luciano, Manuela, Marcia, Maurizio, Roberto, Rosa, Stylianos.

I was the coordinator of this group at the beginning and my wish was to see these names sitting in the circle and nothing more. Now it flows and the person who hosts the next meeting becomes the coordinator. Manuela will host us in Lisbon in March 2014 and Leandra will host us in Torino in autumn 2014. Though we are a closed group, our heart is open to all of our colleagues.

Arsaluys Kayir
Group coordinator