living newspaper
lyudmila litvinenko, Jutta Heppekausen & Julia Solovieva
We live in a time of profound social change and division, both between countries and continents and within national borders, down to the microcosm of our social atoms, our communities, circles of friends, work collectives, families. Now, uncertainty and anxiety have burst into our lives with great speed. War has brought great change. It is not easy to sort out and understand what really matters most to us today. The so-called tide of time is testing our capacity for dialogue.
Sociodrama is a good way to understand your own feelings and the feelings of others, starting with a group research question and swapping roles with fictional characters: What is going on in others? What phenomena of society are relevant today, how do they respond to us, how do we want to behave in all of this?
It is important and vital for us to meet live now. To feel that we are not alone. To figure out how we can move forward, work, create, be alive!
And it's also a great way to be and play together, to dive into the warm reality that happens at our psychodrama meetings.
Lyudmila Litvinenko, Ukraine, is certified psychologist, psychodrama therapist, trainer & supervisor within the Psychodrama Association for Europe e.V. She is the founder of the school of Psychodrama in Ukraine and founder of the Institute of Psychodrama, Modern Psychology and Psychotherapy, Board Member and the head of the coaching committee. She also is founder and head of the Playback Theatre "Reflection" from 2001 until 2014. She is certified psychologiest, resarcher and consultant of the Institute of Psychology of the NAPS of Ukraine, Director of the Crisis Center for Medical and Psychological Assistance and Member of the Psychodrama Association for Europe e.V. She lives in Kyiv, provides psychological assistance to military personnel and the population, who is experiencing the trauma of war.
Jutta Heppekausen, Germany, is Psychodrama Director, Graduate "Drama in Education" (DFP), Counsellor/Supervisor (DGSv), Board Member of Psychodramainstitut für Europa e.V. Germany, Accredited Playback Theatre Trainer, founder of "Blickwechsel - Playbacktheater Freiburg" and has additional Trainings in Alexander Technique and Non-Violent Communication. She works international (e.g. Lybanon, Turkey, Spain) and believes in the impact of social change for justice and human rights through perspective widening work.
Julia Solovieva, Germany, grew up in Moscow and lives in Germany for over 20 years now. She is author, film and theater maker, Psychodrama leader in training. She works multimedia and intercultural and is committed to international understanding, such as in her sociodrama project "The City with Jews" together with Jutta Heppekausen, or in her recent features "Aydeevka dreaming", NDR/Deutschlandfunk and Awdijiwka Nightmare, NDR/ WDR 2023