Happy Holidays!

 

Dear Friends,

Generous gifts from people like you enabled us to keep our doors open, after our investment fund was lost in the Madoff scandal one year ago. We had to let go of our office staff, and yet we were able to attract other income producing work and give new vitality to our current production of MOTHERBLOOD.

 

TRANSPERSONAL DRAMA THERAPY AND PSYCHODRAMA:

In 2009, we offered a number of groups and trainings:

• Last winter, we offered a week-end training on THE PRENATAL ROOTS OF DETRIMENTAL LIFE LONG PATTERNS THROUGH PSYCHODRAMA AND DRAMA THERAPY.
• Saphira joined Shoshana Simons at California Institute of Integral Studies to do a three hour class on psychodrama for their Masters students. She was also a guest facilitator in Pam Dunne’s Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles.
• Saphira facilitated a spring therapy and training group, assisted by Peter Kovner.
• Saphira offered a fall weekend training in psychodrama with women across cultures and facilitated an evening workshop in Brookline for 25 Israeli women called Meditation and Expression
• Gloria Deckro joined Saphira in November to guide a Meditation retreat called Journey to the Sacred River: A Meditation Retreat for Healing and Creative Transformation.
• In December, Saphira joined Wendy Limber in Stuart, Florida to offer a psychodrama training.
• Saphira and two of our RDTs, Chris Carbone and Jackie Newman, presented at the NADT Conference in White Plains, NY, on the work we have done on Prenatal Roots of Detrimental Life Patterns.

The coming year will bring many new opportunities. Saphira and Dan Wiener, on our faculty, will be presenting in April in Philadelphia: Psychodrama and Drama Therapy: Rivals or Partners.

 

Susan has been working on a book of poetry and is developing a Yoga group for trauma survivors. She and Saphira continue to develop proposals for more collaborative performances of MOTHERBLOOD in New York, Maine and Washington DC. The theater looks forward to having members of its extended artistic community offer relevant trainings, retreats, groups and original performances, in the theater space.

We are also hoping to begin a new training class in our Drama Therapy Certificate Program in the fall of 2010. This will depend on whether we can raise enough funding to support this work. We have produced this training program for ten years and there is nothing else like it.

We do need marketing, computer and office management help for the artistic and educational work we do. We had the generous pro bono help of a bookkeeper for several months, whom we are now paying.

We invite our audience, friends and alumnae to join us in keeping our work moving ahead with the energy, momentum, and enthusiasm that have allowed us to go into our 43rd year, in spite of the severe financial challenges that we have faced this year.

Your tax-deductible contribution will help make it possible for Omega Theater to inspire a new generation of transpersonal drama therapists to carry on the important work of transforming lives.  It will also help us underwrite our many creative arts expressions of the possibilities for transformation and peace in the world.  Please help us in the joyous and generous spirit of this holiday season