Podcast Recording - Final Debrief 280710

This is our last debriefing conferencing session for the TUODRP module. Please works towards a creative ending for the DRPWorld characters, say your goodbyes in character to the other characters in Chatango. Say where do you want to go from here, what do you look forward to, what do you bring with you from the fellowship with the others etc. Do not forget to read any final comments of your group. I will post the peer review in the few days. Well done again.



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Podcast - Online Tutorial 2 - 160610

Below is the audio recording of our tutorial on the 16th June 2010. Should you wish to download the file, click on the link and save it to your computer or your drive. Hope the tutorial has been of help in clarify and getting the ALS started on your mission operation Heroes in Transition. I know there is a lot to take in so it may be worth your while to listed to it back again. Heroes needs guides and mentors too.....don't hesitate to ask.





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Mission Impossible - Operation "Heroes in Transitions"

Podcast - Online Supervision - 020610 and accompanying transcript

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[02/06/2010 19:55:44] *** wong.phooi.yeen added chengjad, Alex Chew, DING I LING, Melinda Leong, Seok Binn ***


[02/06/2010 19:55:54] wong.phooi.yeen: ok, iam here

[02/06/2010 19:56:30] *** wong.phooi.yeen added Mary Chuah ***

[02/06/2010 19:56:37] DING I LING: hi all, sorry i m away just now

[02/06/2010 19:56:40] DING I LING: start already?

[02/06/2010 19:56:48] chengjad: good, looks like Alwx is in now

[02/06/2010 19:57:09] wong.phooi.yeen: please respond to me if u read me

[02/06/2010 19:57:11] Seok Binn: (wave)

[02/06/2010 19:57:37] DING I LING: yes, elaine, i see you ; u type "ok, i am here"

[02/06/2010 19:57:39] Seok Binn: yes.... I can see your chat

[02/06/2010 19:57:40] chengjad: yes

[02/06/2010 19:57:48] wong.phooi.yeen: ok, thanks

[02/06/2010 19:58:42] wong.phooi.yeen: have you started talking, if so, talk to me see if i can hear you, but you cannot hear me

[02/06/2010 19:58:45] Melinda Leong: :D

[02/06/2010 19:59:03] Melinda Leong: Sifu lai ler

[02/06/2010 19:59:15] Alex Chew: Alex Chew is unable to chat with you right now,This is an auto-reply message by PrettyMay Call Recorder for Skype. Download from www.prettymay.net.

[02/06/2010 19:59:56] DING I LING: start chat already meh?

[02/06/2010 20:00:10] DING I LING: conference call start liao meh?

[02/06/2010 20:00:14] Mary Chuah: nopr

[02/06/2010 20:00:17] Mary Chuah: nope

[02/06/2010 20:00:17] Melinda Leong: not yet lah.

[02/06/2010 20:00:52] Melinda Leong: Hei, u all gone thru the Monomyth already?

[02/06/2010 20:01:07] chengjad: what to do with prettymay/

[02/06/2010 20:01:28] Melinda Leong: no lah, he is setting up.pretty may to do the recording.

[02/06/2010 20:01:42] chengjad: ok mel, tks

[02/06/2010 20:02:42] DING I LING: Monomyth? what's tat?

[02/06/2010 20:02:43] Alex Chew: Alex Chew is unable to chat with you right now,This is an auto-reply message by PrettyMay Call Recorder for Skype. Download from www.prettymay.net.

[02/06/2010 20:02:52] Alex Chew: hi all looks like you have been in in conversation....r u ready for me to start the web conference

[02/06/2010 20:02:52] DING I LING: i am not o... how r ?

[02/06/2010 20:03:05] Mary Chuah: yes

[02/06/2010 20:03:09] chengjad: ok

[02/06/2010 20:03:13] DING I LING: okok

[02/06/2010 20:03:13] Seok Binn: yes

[02/06/2010 20:03:15] DING I LING: go ahead

[02/06/2010 20:03:21] *** Conference call, duration 3:06:04 ***

[02/06/2010 20:04:00] Melinda Leong: done

[02/06/2010 20:08:29] Mary Chuah: yes i received

[02/06/2010 20:08:34] chengjad: sent when

[02/06/2010 20:09:04] Mary Chuah: 31 may

[02/06/2010 20:09:10] Mary Chuah: ALS update

[02/06/2010 20:09:20] DING I LING: Terry: I go 1st to shop.



(As usual brings all the weapons in the play box to his designated house, used the punch bag as the door to the house entrance. This time use a towel to cover the hole of the puppet theater as the window)



Terry: You cannot enter into my house. Now I am the police you are the bad guy.



Terry: Come out of you house and buy food.



M: Buy food for myself.



Terry: Every time you holds food, I will shoot from my house, and the food fall down. Bang-bang



I shot your head.



M: I am hurt in my head, do I have to go to see a doctor.



Terry: Go to see a doctor, never mind you are okay now. Now let’s play slow fighting, with sword. Chang-Chang….



Terry: I put magic to my sword.



M: Cheang-cheang (turned one round) you are so powerful.



Terry: Chang-chang



M: Oh your sword are so good that you have make a hole in the sand (pointed at the sand box)



(Terry turned one round)



Terry: Now come my hurricane power, if you get caught you will fly away.



M: I got your hurricane, now I am forced to blew far away.



Terry: I am using my ice power and you will be frozen if you get it.



M: Osh-osh…. Oh no, I got it now I am freeze and frozen. I cannot moved.



Terry: Now I will come out with Fire power and you will be melting.



M: I am all wet.



Terry: Fire.



M: I am burned.



Terry: You are all wet-wet. Fire, you still stand there, you still don’t moved.



M: My ice is melting and all into water (pointing at the pool)



M: Your power is so great.



M: Your fire got my eyes, I am blind?



Terry: No, your eyes still can see, we people have 3 eyes.



M: Your power so great.



Terry: I am the Power ranger.



M: I am the monster.



Terry: I using the fire power.



M: Then I use the water power.



Terry: My fire power is the most powerful; you think that your water is great? No.



Terry: I am directing my fire to the wall behind you.



M: Oh no, it burned a hole there.



Terry: Fire.



M: It hit my leg.



Terry: Hai yeah, you have water power mah, cannot get burned lah.



M: I forgot.



Terry: Cheang-cheang, got your sword.



M: Oh no, you got my sword.



(At this moment, Terry was holding the sword, normally whenever he got hold of my weapon he will confiscate it and put it at his ‘house’ but this time, he hesitated and returned it to me.)



M: You got my sword, but you are returning it to me. Thanks.

[02/06/2010 20:09:23] Melinda Leong: gmail on May 31, pg 2

[02/06/2010 20:10:10] wong.phooi.yeen: which one? recent one? which client

[02/06/2010 20:10:55] wong.phooi.yeen: maybe we start with melinda? ya, I thought we will use melinda first, or I will dig it out next

[02/06/2010 20:11:51] Melinda Leong: It was in Session 10.

[02/06/2010 20:13:11] wong.phooi.yeen: client gives a role to therapist and assign one by himself.

[02/06/2010 20:13:30] chengjad: sponteious

[02/06/2010 20:13:40] Seok Binn: Alex, pls add PN

[02/06/2010 20:13:45] wong.phooi.yeen: spontenous and directed by child

[02/06/2010 20:13:50] Seok Binn: Phaik Nee

[02/06/2010 20:14:20] *** Alex Chew added Phaik Nie ***

[02/06/2010 20:14:46] Phaik Nie: yes

[02/06/2010 20:16:29] wong.phooi.yeen: therapist can suggest what will we do next

[02/06/2010 20:16:46] wong.phooi.yeen: i can only write

[02/06/2010 20:17:04] wong.phooi.yeen: yes, maybe suggest ritual of entrance

[02/06/2010 20:18:00] wong.phooi.yeen: maybe we can set the space for this, put the puppet stage in the middle maybe, what do you think Terry

[02/06/2010 20:19:53] Mary Chuah: sorry, i am learning how to unmute...phaik nee is helping me

[02/06/2010 20:19:59] Melinda Leong: I see you are setting up your house, what type of house is it, is it a small house or is it a big castle?

[02/06/2010 20:20:53] wong.phooi.yeen: where shall you be and what about me? postion, in front, behind, side enter

[02/06/2010 20:21:18] DING I LING: what you want me to be?

[02/06/2010 20:21:38] DING I LING: rol to play? what role?

[02/06/2010 20:21:42] Melinda Leong: who are you may I ask?

[02/06/2010 20:22:30] wong.phooi.yeen: You are the bad guy and i am the police. Bad guy, tell me morea bout this bad guy that i shall paly

[02/06/2010 20:23:16] wong.phooi.yeen: Terry assigned role to therapist as bad guy and he is police

[02/06/2010 20:23:19] Melinda Leong: Looking for his expression, whether he wants me to join in, if there is then I will ask, I see you want me to join in to your play, who will you want me to be?

[02/06/2010 20:23:29] Seok Binn: where is your house located?

[02/06/2010 20:24:05] chengjad: define the diff charaters in play, as there may be more then 1 role for each

[02/06/2010 20:25:22] Melinda Leong: If you are the policeman, are you powerful? What is your special power?

[02/06/2010 20:27:21] Melinda Leong: I see you are covering the window, may I ask if you are preventing somebody or anything to go into your castle?

[02/06/2010 20:29:56] DING I LING: leading the witness

[02/06/2010 20:30:53] Melinda Leong: noted. thanks.

[02/06/2010 20:32:19] wong.phooi.yeen: yes

[02/06/2010 20:32:20] DING I LING: if the client used the small miniatures and start a war game, and just using the miniatures and directed the therapists to play, how can i direct the client to able to enter more deep therapeutic world

[02/06/2010 20:35:06] Melinda Leong: I see you want to play pretending. What you want to be? What you want me to be?

[02/06/2010 20:36:51] chengjad: diff colour asigned to child and therapist

[02/06/2010 20:37:09] Phaik Nie: can we tell the child, are you a Ben10?

[02/06/2010 20:37:23] Phaik Nie: as all the characters he seems to play is a Ben10

[02/06/2010 20:38:01] chengjad: the soliders

[02/06/2010 20:44:30] Melinda Leong: May be point out the creative materials that are available for the dramatic play, such as costumes, masks, etc...

[02/06/2010 20:47:46] Phaik Nie: he said he is power ranger

[02/06/2010 20:49:24] DING I LING: is it make sense, that the therapists should know well the superhero character that the child play off?

[02/06/2010 20:49:39] Melinda Leong: at 1st police, then power ranger

[02/06/2010 20:50:49] Melinda Leong: meaning in real time, he is power less then in play he gather all the power that he can't have in real time.

[02/06/2010 20:51:37] DING I LING: out of topic: if the child play as the NEMO fish and searching for mother, ca i make asumption that maybe the child have attachement issues, or relationship issues with mother?

[02/06/2010 20:51:42] DING I LING: or gamily

[02/06/2010 20:51:46] DING I LING: family

[02/06/2010 20:52:05] chengjad: how do I know /pick up if my own projection go into the role asigned to me

[02/06/2010 20:52:19] Phaik Nie: yes

[02/06/2010 20:59:14] DING I LING: ok, thank you sifu.....clear

[02/06/2010 21:01:27] DING I LING: echo cheng's question, how could the therapist be more flexible "be self, and not herself" while doing role-play? should be more freely?

[02/06/2010 21:01:40] DING I LING: allowing the character to play? and enjoy it??

[02/06/2010 21:02:14] DING I LING: as sometimes, i find it's a bit difficult to play the role assigned by client

[02/06/2010 21:03:39] wong.phooi.yeen: hahaha

[02/06/2010 21:03:51] wong.phooi.yeen: wet the bed and floor of playroom

[02/06/2010 21:04:17] wong.phooi.yeen: with water splashes here and there

[02/06/2010 21:06:05] wong.phooi.yeen: my line drop

[02/06/2010 21:07:11] Melinda Leong: Hi, Nemo I am Dory what can we do today? or Where can we go together today?

[02/06/2010 21:07:54] DING I LING: hi Dory, i am lost, i afraid i can't find a way home... but i am not scare now, as i meet u here..

[02/06/2010 21:08:16] DING I LING: i hear there is a secrect garden deep in the centre of the sea...have u hear bout this?

[02/06/2010 21:09:11] Melinda Leong: No, Nemo I have short term memory lost, but I can read, do you have the address?

[02/06/2010 21:09:43] wong.phooi.yeen: ya

[02/06/2010 21:10:08] wong.phooi.yeen: can we go back to the supervision

[02/06/2010 21:11:09] wong.phooi.yeen: empathize Nemo

[02/06/2010 21:12:35] chengjad: dory-helpless

[02/06/2010 21:12:41] wong.phooi.yeen: notice the facial and movement of child and mirror her to reflect feelings child has

[02/06/2010 21:13:33] wong.phooi.yeen: no sense of purpose,

[02/06/2010 21:13:40] chengjad: blurr

[02/06/2010 21:13:42] Melinda Leong: confuse, no direction

[02/06/2010 21:13:43] Mary Chuah: probably confused?

[02/06/2010 21:13:53] Mary Chuah: worried

[02/06/2010 21:13:53] Melinda Leong: longing

[02/06/2010 21:13:58] wong.phooi.yeen: lonely, marginalized

[02/06/2010 21:14:40] chengjad: wronged

[02/06/2010 21:15:00] Mary Chuah: loss of hope

[02/06/2010 21:15:04] wong.phooi.yeen: no sense of belonging

[02/06/2010 21:15:26] wong.phooi.yeen: transistion

[02/06/2010 21:15:41] wong.phooi.yeen: grief loss of loved ones, familiarity

[02/06/2010 21:16:44] wong.phooi.yeen: self

[02/06/2010 21:16:44] Melinda Leong: mother

[02/06/2010 21:18:08] Melinda Leong: helper

[02/06/2010 21:18:51] Melinda Leong: santuary

[02/06/2010 21:18:58] Mary Chuah: safe place

[02/06/2010 21:19:03] Mary Chuah: unconscious

[02/06/2010 21:21:13] wong.phooi.yeen: in our lives too

[02/06/2010 21:21:15] Melinda Leong: mythological journey

[02/06/2010 21:24:40] chengjad: japan yes

[02/06/2010 21:24:51] Melinda Leong: Ya, dressing up manga

[02/06/2010 21:26:16] Melinda Leong: very famous, manga comic movie, free online, can down load from China site

[02/06/2010 21:26:41] Melinda Leong: comic character with beutiful big eyes.

[02/06/2010 21:27:16] Melinda Leong: I think your character Crest maiden might be manga character

[02/06/2010 21:27:49] wong.phooi.yeen: eyes,is it the window to the soul ?

[02/06/2010 21:30:25] Melinda Leong: Group therapy - Magic crystal - is it a drama therapy activity?

[02/06/2010 21:31:19] Melinda Leong: yes

[02/06/2010 21:31:49] Melinda Leong: he put up his barrier

[02/06/2010 21:32:09] DING I LING: he set up the rules, and also directed the game

[02/06/2010 21:32:21] chengjad: he has something to hide

[02/06/2010 21:33:05] chengjad: its a scret

[02/06/2010 21:33:31] Melinda Leong: Terry likes to imagine capture his villians into the punch bag.

[02/06/2010 21:35:55] Melinda Leong: He sent me to the other corner to build my house.

[02/06/2010 21:37:26] chengjad: nuturing vs damaging, love/hate

[02/06/2010 21:37:36] Melinda Leong: Yup

[02/06/2010 21:47:41] Melinda Leong: No, he changed the last session. Very interesting.

[02/06/2010 21:48:02] Melinda Leong: Yeah his role changed.

[02/06/2010 21:48:48] Melinda Leong: Yeah new outcome.

[02/06/2010 21:49:06] chengjad: clearer

[02/06/2010 21:49:25] Phaik Nie: clear and understand!

[02/06/2010 21:49:36] wong.phooi.yeen: it makes sense. Can you relate this to the monomyth

[02/06/2010 21:49:57] Mary Chuah: not yet...

[02/06/2010 21:50:00] Phaik Nie: not yet for me

[02/06/2010 21:50:17] Mary Chuah: Heroes' journey

[02/06/2010 21:50:31] Mary Chuah: 17 stages

[02/06/2010 21:50:31] Melinda Leong: not finished yet.

[02/06/2010 21:50:41] Seok Binn: not yet

[02/06/2010 21:50:41] wong.phooi.yeen: The journey embark from perceiving a call.......reject or accept it....then move on

[02/06/2010 21:51:05] chengjad: where

[02/06/2010 21:51:54] chengjad: sent to hotmail?

[02/06/2010 21:53:36] chengjad: mel, pls forward

[02/06/2010 21:53:42] Melinda Leong: okay.

[02/06/2010 21:55:15] Melinda Leong: Alex already shared with you in google document.

[02/06/2010 22:00:49] chengjad: Once upon a time....... where beings exist before the dawn of time and space, in the deep recesses of our memories we see glimpses of such a world. This is one such world. The lushness of flora and fauna in this world have given birth to the myriads of beings that roam in them. It was a time too where this dream like world is about to come face to face with challenge of such a calamity of overwhelming proportions that their world will be transformed forever. The beings in this world have each lived in timeless peace, comfort and security within their own reality, each in their respective lives in their communities. This is about to change..... an individual from each community is about to receive the 'call', a call to adventure which will transform their lives and others.



The elemental energies have infused the minds of the seven individuals through a dream to gather by a pool deep in the forest to receive the message which they, individually and collectively have to choose how they are going to react to such a calling.

[02/06/2010 22:00:58] Melinda Leong: Once upon a time....... where beings exist before the dawn of time and space, in the deep recesses of our memories we see glimpses of such a world. This is one such world. The lushness of flora and fauna in this world have given birth to the myriads of beings that roam in them. It was a time too where this dream like world is about to come face to face with challenge of such a calamity of overwhelming proportions that their world will be transformed forever. The beings in this world have each lived in timeless peace, comfort and security within their own reality, each in their respective lives in their communities. This is about to change..... an individual from each community is about to receive the 'call', a call to adventure which will transform their lives and others.



The elemental energies have infused the minds of the seven individuals through a dream to gather by a pool deep in the forest to receive the message which they, individually and collectively have to choose how they are going to react to such a calling.



At the gathering by the pool, deep in the forest, the beings started to initiate for their first time tentative conversation with each other, not knowing what to expect or who these people are.......

[02/06/2010 22:14:44] Melinda Leong: ok, meaning that we as go in alone, and need not go in together.

[02/06/2010 22:15:00] chengjad: yes

[02/06/2010 22:15:10] chengjad: got I tried twice

[02/06/2010 22:15:13] Melinda Leong: Yes, Cheng ask question.

[02/06/2010 22:17:05] Melinda Leong: I can sense a pull from outside the gate. Oooh the pull is so strong, can we go together to check it.

[02/06/2010 22:17:10] chengjad: I am of branches and leaves and flowers

[02/06/2010 22:18:43] chengjad: phloxE said (just wandering what this new appearnce is all about) Hi, hi, what are u and u r frightening some of us here. show yourself and state your needs

[02/06/2010 22:19:07] Phaik Nie: :)

[02/06/2010 22:19:21] Melinda Leong: No-lah, I meant like at the STARGATE, time travel. They always come out from the gate.

[02/06/2010 22:20:06] Melinda Leong: why am Shaylee so scare in there?

[02/06/2010 22:20:30] Melinda Leong: Sorry repharse - Why is Shaylee so scare in there?

[02/06/2010 22:26:55] chengjad: of your charater; loneranger/

[02/06/2010 22:33:30] Melinda Leong: the mustketer

[02/06/2010 22:34:00] wong.phooi.yeen: the line drops.

[02/06/2010 22:34:29] wong.phooi.yeen: thanks

[02/06/2010 22:34:54] Alex Chew: http://drpworld.lefora.com/

[02/06/2010 22:37:08] Melinda Leong: She can go in already of the Dreamy Adventure.

[02/06/2010 22:37:21] wong.phooi.yeen: i have access to it already after working on it.

[02/06/2010 22:38:07] Melinda Leong: Elaine can you click on the url Alex put up 10.34pm

[02/06/2010 22:38:41] chengjad: mel lock in at DRP

[02/06/2010 22:38:50] wong.phooi.yeen: ya

[02/06/2010 22:38:52] Phaik Nie: am not in yet.

[02/06/2010 22:40:05] Melinda Leong: Mary your Chatango account

[02/06/2010 22:40:26] wong.phooi.yeen: i got it

[02/06/2010 22:41:02] chengjad: elaine , but u r not showing

[02/06/2010 22:41:17] wong.phooi.yeen: i got it but lost it

[02/06/2010 22:41:26] wong.phooi.yeen: let me try again

[02/06/2010 22:41:34] chengjad: e laine

[02/06/2010 22:41:45] chengjad: go to your charater in DRP

[02/06/2010 22:41:59] chengjad: then below the ad col

[02/06/2010 22:42:06] chengjad: there is chat

[02/06/2010 22:42:10] chengjad: click

[02/06/2010 22:42:18] Melinda Leong: Alex Mary dropped.

[02/06/2010 22:42:20] chengjad: then the text box

[02/06/2010 22:43:14] wong.phooi.yeen: please let me know where to click, i am in

[02/06/2010 22:43:38] wong.phooi.yeen: donwloading slowly, ok now

[02/06/2010 22:44:02] wong.phooi.yeen: line drop

[02/06/2010 22:44:35] wong.phooi.yeen: thanks

[02/06/2010 22:45:04] wong.phooi.yeen: drop

[02/06/2010 22:46:27] Melinda Leong: Alex Elaine dropped.

[02/06/2010 22:46:27] chengjad: elaine, go to your charater in DRP

[10:42:02 PM] chengjad says: then below the ad col

[10:42:07 PM] chengjad says: there is chat

[10:42:13 PM] chengjad says: click

[02/06/2010 22:46:41] wong.phooi.yeen: ok

[02/06/2010 22:46:55] wong.phooi.yeen: i see it

[02/06/2010 22:47:18] chengjad: type in the text box

[02/06/2010 22:47:32] wong.phooi.yeen: how do i send what i chat

[02/06/2010 22:47:37] chengjad: it is above the

[02/06/2010 22:47:48] chengjad: 8 people here now

[02/06/2010 22:47:58] chengjad: just entre

[02/06/2010 22:48:13] Phaik Nie: yes

[02/06/2010 22:48:15] Melinda Leong: There is a text box beneath our chat, then just type in "testing" the press button enter.

[02/06/2010 22:48:24] Phaik Nie: Fidget

[02/06/2010 22:48:59] Phaik Nie: yup

[02/06/2010 22:50:41] wong.phooi.yeen: drop

[02/06/2010 22:51:03] Melinda Leong: Elaine closed down some window that you are not using, to save space.

[02/06/2010 22:51:16] chengjad: elaine have you followed the flow in

[02/06/2010 22:51:40] wong.phooi.yeen: drop when i look at the drpworld

[02/06/2010 22:52:05] chengjad: it is ok just get into chatango

[02/06/2010 22:52:25] wong.phooi.yeen: hang, right. maybe i cannot manage both at the same time, you go ahead I can hear f

[02/06/2010 22:52:50] Melinda Leong: close some of the application that you have opened now.

[02/06/2010 22:54:08] Phaik Nie: ok

[02/06/2010 22:55:09] Phaik Nie: how come i am not able to change the colour?

[02/06/2010 22:56:54] Phaik Nie: my line dropped

[02/06/2010 22:57:12] Phaik Nie: i need to go off for a while. need to put both of them to bed, will join again if all of you are still online. sorry...

[02/06/2010 23:02:06] chengjad: elaine, bring your computer to disted on sat.

[02/06/2010 23:02:21] Melinda Leong: Sat workshop.

[02/06/2010 23:02:50] wong.phooi.yeen: i will do this after this with the help of others through skype

[02/06/2010 23:07:49] Mary Chuah: drop

[02/06/2010 23:08:11] wong.phooi.yeen: perhaps we have to meet at the pool again

[02/06/2010 23:08:23] Mary Chuah: elaine u r in

[02/06/2010 23:08:33] wong.phooi.yeen: yes, thanks, good nite

[02/06/2010 23:08:45] Mary Chuah: i can see one foolishother in the drp chat

[02/06/2010 23:08:52] Phaik Nie: good nite.

[02/06/2010 23:08:55] wong.phooi.yeen: yes, manage to

[02/06/2010 23:09:02] Phaik Nie: thanks, Alex!

[02/06/2010 23:09:06] chengjad: nite nity nite

[02/06/2010 23:09:08] wong.phooi.yeen: goodnite, thanks alex

[02/06/2010 23:09:09] Mary Chuah: GN

[02/06/2010 23:09:09] Seok Binn: gd nite

[02/06/2010 23:09:12] Melinda Leong: thanks Alex. 9999

[02/06/2010 23:09:17] DING I LING: good night,, it's a long session, my pet pet start feel numbs already

[02/06/2010 23:09:20] wong.phooi.yeen: now help me to get the color

[02/06/2010 23:09:22] DING I LING: tq alex

[02/06/2010 23:09:24] chengjad: yes

[02/06/2010 23:09:24] Phaik Nie: cu all

[02/06/2010 23:09:26] DING I LING: bye

[02/06/2010 23:09:28] *** Call ended ***

[02/06/2010 23:09:29] Seok Binn: bye

[02/06/2010 23:09:58] wong.phooi.yeen: what color shall i use for what: action, feelings, ;....

[02/06/2010 23:10:20] wong.phooi.yeen: i can't hear but chat with me

[02/06/2010 23:10:42] wong.phooi.yeen: now, i need to know the color, please

[02/06/2010 23:10:51] chengjad: i am sticking to one color then diff fonds for action, conversation etc

[02/06/2010 23:10:55] wong.phooi.yeen: yes, colour

[02/06/2010 23:11:37] wong.phooi.yeen: action- maybe color will do

[02/06/2010 23:11:53] wong.phooi.yeen: yes,melinda is right, use red color

[02/06/2010 23:12:23] wong.phooi.yeen: please respond to me while you can see my chat

[02/06/2010 23:12:50] wong.phooi.yeen: please type something, write it down please

[02/06/2010 23:14:11] wong.phooi.yeen: did you see my chat, please respond to me

[02/06/2010 23:14:21] wong.phooi.yeen: i cannot talk, please chat

Email to ALS Group 010610

Hi all


From the little I had observed of your interaction during your role playing game last night (would love to have the transcript of the whole session).......you are probably starting to discover that rules are required to be able to engage in a ‘game’. All games must have rules, some explicit, some implicit, some organic, without them roles became meaningless, without reciprocation of roles, your sense of purpose and meaning in own character becomes chaotic and confusing. If roles are not coherent and complement each other, it becomes idiosyncratic and egocentric resulting in the arousal of emotions and familiar psychological patterns to cope with such a discomfort. To note and observe such dynamics may require some distancing to engage in the necessary self reflections to make sense of the phenomena. You may also beginning witness the impact it may have in you between dramatic reality and your ordinary reality, the parallel dynamic between the roles and patterns within emerging in play during the dramatic role playing and the roles you play in your every day world. The boundary is starting to be less rigid than you once thought. You may wish to recall the continuum concept, between on one end ‘Scripted RP where it is very structured through to Improvisational RP where there is minimal structure and the relationship to the idea of balancing between support and challenge.

Maybe this is something we could touch on during supervision on Wednesday. Hang on in there…I won’t leave you high and dry. It has to be experiences before we can make sense of what is it that we had experienced.



Best Wishes



Alex

Summary of all the role play character profiles DRPWorld

This link will open up the word document containing a summary of all the role playing characters for ease of access in understanding the attributes and background information of the characters within a single page. Below is an update of the ALS Personal Learning Journals

Comment on the DRPWorld Role Playing

Podcast - Online Tutorial 1 - 190510

Below is the audio recording of our tutorial on the 19th May 2010. Should you wish to download the file, click on the link and save it to your computer or your drive. Hopefully future conferences can do away with the techincal preliminaries once we become more familiar again in using Skype after an absence of some time since we last met over Skype.




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Preparation - Therapeutic Use of Dramatic Role Playing - Online Tutorial 1 - 19th May 2010

Preparation - Therapeutic Use of Dramatic Role Playing - Online Tutorial 1 - 19^th May 2010

Hi all

I am delighted to see you all have now set your Personal Learning Journals, and I am sure the one remaining will have it up before the weekend. Not all of you are been shown up as following each others blog.

No	Name	Google Mail Account	Personal Learning Journal (Blogspot.com)
1	Ding I Ling	dil5410@gmail.com	http://ilingtuodrp.blogspot.com/
2	Melinda Leong	msleong072@gmail.com	http://melindatuodrp.blogspot.com/
3	Lim Seok Binn	seokbinn68@gmail.com	http://seokbinntuodrp.blogspot.com/
4	Seow Hooi Cheng	chengjad@gmail.com	http://chengtuodrp.blogspot.com/
5	Chin Phaik Nie	phaikniechin@gmail.com	http://phaiknietuodrp.blogspot.com/
6	Elaine Wong	elaineijwphyeen@gmail.com	http://pyeentuodrp.blogspot.com/
7	Mary Chuah	amchuah@gmail.com	http://maryctuodrp.blogspot.com/

Remember having your Personal Learning Journal means keeping a regular entry of your reflections, try not to procrastinate, challenge any inner voices you may be harbouring; somehow  imagining you are going to accumulate enough material to display how ‘excellent’ your are in your ‘student/learner’ role  before you enter the perfect entry. The learning is in the ‘process’ not ‘product’ ….learn to give up unnecessary anxieties and stress yourself out. I know, been there already J,  after all, we are learning to invoke and evoke our inner creativity and spontaneity, so learn to capture the inner thoughts of the moment without too
many self censorship in giving birth to your inner expressions , that’s the only you are going to get to know your ‘Self’ …. well…...at least you know that this will be contained within the safety of this ‘playing and learning space’ as you engage with the materials. This process is no different than what you hope to achieve with your clients as you consider the creation a similar ‘therapeutic space’ where they can feel safe with their own creativity and spontaneity.

Preparing for the online tutorial

The rules of giving apologies to your group applies if for whatever reason you are not able to attend, maybe when you all meet as an ALS group as in my earlier suggestion to go through the ground rules again.

Task One

Have your role play character ready– see attachment for the Profiling of the Fantasy Character. I have given a suggested template and an example of how I’d developed my own fantasy character – Shape Shifter. A copy of an blank template has been send via attachment.

Guideline in using the template

To help yourself, use the technique of‘role interviewing’. A useful process is creating a visual representation of the character first. This can be easily achieved by gong to the various links which have application for you to play with as you create a character  DON’T worry too much about the background details for the character, just be intuitive and go with your ‘gut’ feelings and let yourself be drawn by what you have put together. Next, like any piece of art that is created, not only look at it but ‘into’ and ‘through’ it. Let the details of the image tell you its story, the eyes, its clothing, its gestures, let the image suggest what it is attempting to tell you, to communicate to you, there is a story waiting to be told. Really open yourself to it and contemplate and reflect on your impressions. This will really help you to connect to your own creation more meaningfully as the uniqueness of your creation comes from a place that is deep within you. Don’t dismiss what may initially seem alien, strange thoughts, images and impressions that may spontaneously pops into your head, go with it. Take some risk with your imagination, go outside normal convention,  outside your narcisstic, comfort zone, play a character of someone that is ‘not you’, experiment beyond  the sweet young cute, pretty, handsome, prince charming, socially acceptable, run of the mill ‘nice’ one-dimensional  fantasy type of character. This could be an opportunity to explore your rejected, disassociated, projected, ‘split off’, shadow part of you in a relatively safe environment. As you put yourself in unexpected role playing situation, you learn to improvised and you can therefore you  appreciate why ‘improvisation’ is greatly valued in role playing as it is the germ/virus for spontaneity and creativity…..its fun too as you learn to trust in ‘letting go’ your ‘normal’ constraints on your ways of behaving and thinking and experiencing….after all its only pretending, playing only lah, not real, not me…just being the character !. This is the advantage of improvised role playing as it let you discover alternative outcomes and ways of being from which insights can then be integrated into your everyday reality..……or maybe what I am suggesting could be a leap too far for the group at moment, if that is the case, ignore all of the above as just my inconsequential rantings when I get carried away every now and again.

Role Interviewing is a technique for fleshing out your basic character and giving it breadth and depth. You can make your character as simple or complicated as you want you character to be. Firstly distance yourself or dis-identify yourself from the created character and take on another role maybe as an investigative journalis, or TV interviewer and interrogate or interview the character, write down the interview questions that are more likely to reveal the fullness of the character. This can be in the context of time…… past, present, future……motivation and intentions…….. social-c ultural  context……….strengths and weaknesses ………hopes and dreams  etc etc Then answer your own questions in character and this will provide substance to your character and make the ‘suspension of disbelief’ easier  as you enter the imaginary realm. The development of the ‘interviewing technique’ will sharpen your skills in bringing out your clients role play character.  We will be doing some practice with each other during the tutorial. We will be engaging in synchronous or real time interaction in role for part of the tutorial session. Give some thought to how you prepare your ‘ritual’ to get into your character (role-taking) for role playing. Remember my earlier email to you with an example of how I use an everyday object like a marble to mark my transition into virtual space as I proceed from everyday reality into dramatic reality. It also helps with the role-taking process as I begin to inhabit the role and such a ritual will also help me to de-role myself when I finish and
engaged with my everyday reality.

The Drpworld forum I have set up is to be used as a virtual space only to be entered in role as your character and not as ‘you’ so keep the boundary between Drpworld and your everyday world. Writing will be in first-person,  present-tense, whether in dialogue or monologue. When you enter, your Keep the space ‘sacred’ ……. Just like you maintain and respect the boundaries of your therapeutic space where you do your therapy with your clients. This is not a forum to ask for clarification, discussion about the role playing task at hand, reflect and analyse on the process etc . as a student of this module. This happens in the main learning portal for this module at Module Blogspot and within your Personal Learning Journal or Emails to me or your ALS. Drpworld allows the development of the extended role playing asynchronously whilst the Chat room provide for synchronous role playing.

Task Two

Could you also prepare very brief vignettes of work with individual children (we will start with one to one work with children before we progress into group later) you may be working with, from previous or current cases where you may consider how best to move into role playing to achieve your therapeutic intention or the your role playing efforts had come across some hiccups in your attempt. (Maintain the
confidentiality, annonimised all personal references) The main teaching point here is primarily to explore the skills that could be applied or be implemented generally with children. Supervision later will look into the unique dynamic of the individual case presented in relation to your work in using therapeutic role playing. I was thinking about the problem scenario for the ALS and may be incorporate a Case Study. We will discuss this further in tutorial.

A task for your Personal Learning Journal

Apart from your reflections and evaluations of the skills workshop, your questions, goals and aims for doing
this module, in you PLJ, you are also given a prescription to another small task. I will be posting the relevant books in anticipation that you will be referring to it. The only requirement is that you provide a Chapter Review in your Personal Learning Journal which you will have selected from the book “Clinical applications of drama therapy in child and adolescent treatment / edited by Anna Marie Weber, Craig Haen.

The review will contain your very brief summary of the chapter (e.g. say in no more than 50 words what’s its about) your reflections on it (e.g. what were the ‘good’ bits and how has it contributed to your thinking about therapeutic role playing) That’s all for now. This email will be uploaded onto the Module Learning Portal as well and I am thinking to put on AlexCPPD.Blogspot.Com as well to give those who have attended the skills workshop a flavour of what happens in the Second Half of the module with the Action Learning Set.

Best Wishes

Alex

Welcoming Message - Action Learning Set for the Therapeutic Use of Dramatic Role Playing Module

I have posted below what I have sent to you as an email. At least now the information is on this portal should you misplace your email in your Gmail folder.

Let me extend my welcome to you all as we begin to embark on an experiential learning journey together for the next 8 to 10 weeks. The essential ingredients that I ask of you to bring along this learning adventure is your sense of creativity, imagination, fun, playfulness, curiosity ….well you can leave the kitchen sink behind .......we won’t be needing that :)

Let me introduce you to your fellow travellers. I apologise if I have included you in the group by mistake as this is the initial list given to me by Josephine on Saturday of those who have expressed and confirmed their interest to complete the full module. I have yet to receive the final confirmed list from her in the meantime I need to make a start, as the tele – transportation portal is ready and waiting to take us….and we need to make some preparations for our adventurous journey.


1 Ding I Ling                   dil5410@gmail.com                    http://ilingtuodrp.blogspot.com/  
2 Melinda Leong             msleong072@gmail.com   
3 Lim Seok Binn             seokbinn68@gmail.com              http://phaiknietuodrp.blogspot.com/
4 Seow Hooi Cheng       chengjad@gmail.com 
5 Chin Phaik Nie            phaikniechin@gmail.com              http://phaiknietuodrp.blogspot.com/ 

6 Elaine Wong                elaineijwphyeen@gmail.com

7 Mary Chuah                amchuah@gmail.com                   http://maryctuodrp.blogspot.com/

 

I have outline the tasks as various sections, firstly for those who are joining this Action Learning Set (ALS) for the first time since your forays into the initial CPPD programme, let me update you on what the baseline ‘ICT’ (Information Communication Technology) necessities in equipping you to engage with the group in virtual space. We don’t want to you feel ‘Lost in Space’ and find it hard to maintain the warp speed (or may feel like it) that the group may be proceeding. Let’s do our equipment check –

• Have a google mail account. Set in up your Google Mail Contacts your group email for your Action Learning Set (to include me – alexwpchew@gmail.com) making it easier to include everyone in any email loop discussion.
• Google calendar – Have shared CPPD Penang calendar you can add this to your own google calendar as well as your group members in helping you organising your schedules for future web conferencing or meetings. You will note that our first online tutorial will be 19th May
• Google Documents – This is where I will be posting relevant academics articles to share in reference to your action learning tasks. This is were your Action Learning Set will posting files of your group ‘work in progress’ as you share and address the group task of the module.
• With your Google Mail Account you can then create your Blog at www.blogspot.com Create a blog for this module that follows the following protocol (yourname)tuodrp.blogspot.com. (See Ding I Ling e.g. above) This is your Personal Learning Journal (PLJ) where you will maintain your learning reflections (thoughts, feelings, actions, learning insights, links, understandings, evaluations etc. to be shared with your Set. Ensure your settings can accept comments and create links to your ALS member’s blogs by following their blogs as ‘friends’.
• Because Disted College hasn’t come back with a confirmation on hosting the modules learning portal in their Moodle server, I have decided that the learning portal for this module has set up using the familiar blogspot at http://cppdroleplaying.blogspot.com/ instead of Elgg which we had used for earlier modules. This is where our learning tasks will be posted, discussions, questions and answers, links to resources, etc, etc will be posted. This is like the main reception area to all the various areas of learning. So DON’T FORGET to add this also to your own blogs (PLJ). It will show up on the blog if you have managed to achieve this. Could you do this asap as all future communication will be via the portal.
• Skype – Ensure you have a Skype account although if you have no access to the internet to join the web conferencing during one of our scheduled online group tutorials and supervision, you still can join in if you provide me with a landline telephone of where you will be so that I could include you into the conference. Please let me know in good time. Please be aware that you have audio communication with the rest of the group, you may not have access to any URLs where an internet connection is required as some of the tutorial may include going to sites e.g. Whiteboard or other Web 2.0 application etc as necessary.
• Useful to remind yourself as a group again what are the Ground Rules for the Action Learning Set given the changes in membership. Its up to the group to negotiate, establish and make explicit what those ground rules are to avoid any misunderstanding of what is expected and the responsibilities as a member of the learning set to the group. You may decide to use group email, Skype conference etc to achieve that. Better to get this out way first before the Problem Scenario is issued to the group as any accompanying stress may distort our perceptions and lead to misunderstanding.

  

Learning Tasks

For your Personal Learning Journal

Refer to the intended learning outcomes in the module information at the url below (I have replicated them as well) http://cppd.onlineuk.org/Modules/roleplay.htm Bear this in mind over the next couple of weeks and stay focus during your reflections as you attempt to integrate your experience with the outcomes below. So start by reflecting on the skills workshop that you had just attended last Saturday.
Facilitate the role playing process for individuals/groups in bringing about the desired intended outcomes.

• Observe, reflect, assess and evaluate role dynamics and the dramatic role playing process in identification and formulation of problem areas, needs as well as in monitoring therapeutic progress and change
• Utilise various therapeutic structures and techniques in dramatic role playing which is appropriate to the individual/group and relevant and its aims.

 

LEARNING REQUIRES YOUR PARTICIPATION - Pay regular visits to your group members Personal Learning Journals and offer your feedback comments on their entries - words of encouragement, reflective prompts, your own views/opinions, links to resources, questions, etc. Without this kind of interaction there is no value to be gain from learning in a group. You have to maintain regular entries in your Personal Learning Journal, learning requires risks in making your thoughts and feelings visible, such self disclosure and constructive feedback from colleagues are essential for ‘real’ learning. I suggest that as a guideline; make at least a minimum of an entry a week besides contributing to your members PLJ.
I encourage you in experimenting with embedding a variety of mutli-media add-ons in your blog, creativity includes finding new ways of playing, in this case, the digital environment, in expressing yourself. Many of your have shown evidence of that in your blogs, thus hopefully, this will be a source of inspiration for you and remember to learn from each other, this is after all your action learning set.

Role Playing Game (RPG)

To be able to facilitate the children effectively in engaging them in therapeutic process of imaginative role playing, the therapists themselves need to experience their own process to be able to appreciate them first hand. You need to allow yourself the permission to immerse your own inner ‘child’ playing in the imaginative realm of fantasy and make belief to gain an understanding of the inner workings of dramatic role playing. To this end, I have set up this component of the learning experience for the Action Learning Set where you will be creating a fantasy character for yourself as you travel into the magical mythic world of an a fantasy world as you engage other characters, meet challenges, and perform tasks etc. How does it work?

• First created a fantasy character for yourself and ‘become’ this character as you journey into the imaginary realm of Drpworld - http://drpworld.lefora.com/ . We are using a forum to support the role playing although we could have use Second Life but my concern is that the broadband might not it and it is not asynchronous. I have already sent you an invite to this private forum set up for members only. To create an avatar to represent this fantasy character go to some of the links which will make the task easier. Just use screen print to capture the image you have created and a picture editor to edit it. Have fun!
• Once you have a character introduce yourself as that character at Drpworld.lefora.com Tips as you enter remember to create a ritual as you enter into the threshold of the virtual world. Perform a simple concrete action and use an object to associate the period you are online whilst in your fantasy role. Example: In my character role as Shape Shifter, I will make a conscious and intentional effort to put a marble (in RP fantasy, that’s my crystal oracle, which the Shape Shifter keeps in the pouch on her belt) in a container next to my computer during the period when I am engage in the virtual role playing. Once I have finished then I remove the marble and return it to the box marking my transition from dramatic reality back to ordinary reality. I am not longer the Shape Shifter, reminding myself that I am back as Alex and the dinner is burning!!!  This helps to keep your boundary and your feet grounded, hopefully decreasing the possibility of potential internet addiction. It is wise to set a specific day or time which you put aside for this task.
• Role playing means you have to dialogue with other characters whilst in character. Use 1st person, present tense in your dialogue. And because you are dialoguing in text, you have to you use adjectives, adverbs to provide the visual details of the action and context. Example

 

Shape Shifter: Who are you and what do you want?
Speaking at he top of his voice with a slight quiver as he quickly turn around looking into the darkness from where the sound and shadowy figure is emerging

• Be clear who you are addressing your statement to because we cannot see the directionality of your eye gaze as we are relying on the text to be able to visualised the imagery in our heads. You can embed images, videos and links as well to support your role playing at Drpworld
• Use your Personal Learning Journal to document your learning and insights as you reflect your character, your character’s development and emerging story line. Developing an ‘aesthetic distance’ between ‘self’ and ‘self-in-role’ will be a helpful process. Useful to see and refer to the character in ‘third person’ to maintain the benefit of externalisation. Also see the other fantasy characters in the same light and not as your colleagues as you know them in ordinary reality. Examples will be provided in the forum to get you started.
• That’s enough for now. We will cover ground again during our online tutorial.

Best wishes

 

Alex