Logodrama is a technique, based on logotherapy for discovering meaning and responding meaningfully to a life situation.
Why logodrama? Whenever you talk about what’s going on in your life, your report is always a bit disconnected from the actual experience. Dramatically demonstrating the experience in the here-and-now brings it to life and makes it real. The reenactment has a sense of immediacy and carries a powerful impact.
Although there are no hard-and-fast rules, the stages of the process are usually present-moment awareness, engagement, stepping back and expectant-awareness.
The first stage is present-moment awareness. The “focus-participant” becomes aware of her thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations. She pays attention to the present moment and is aware of whatever comes up.
The reaction to difficult emotions, challenging relationships and the trials of life is often to run away from it. Challenges make us feel disengaged and alienated from the world.
Being present is an attitude of accepting whatever comes up. However, in logodrama aim is not accepting, acknowledging and validating the emotion and then letting it go, but validating the emotion and then engaging with it to learn what it has to teach you.
The drama can begin at any entry point. Some examples of entry points are:
- Doing a body scan – What is happening in your heartbeat, your breath, your entire body? Are there any points that feel disjointed? The question is not how you are using your body to communicating to the group. The question is how your body is communicating to you.
- What thoughts or emotions are coming up for you?
- What would you want to change in your self if you could?