Action Hub- Topic: Memory Reconsolidation and Psychodrama

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4th  Action Hub session – Tuesday, September 1, 2026.

19:30 – 21:00 (CET) look for the right time in your  timezone: timezones world

Action Hub, a collaboration with FEPTO Training Committee
The Action Hub will serve as a meeting point for psychodrama practitioners and trainers to share their expertise, experiences, and case examples with colleagues working with similar target groups. The format is interactive: one participant introduces a theme or experience, after which all participants contribute their own knowledge, practice, and perspectives. This creates a dynamic exchange of knowledge and practice.

We invite everyone who wishes to participate in this dialogue to register: register form september 1, 2026

Guest speakers

Ina Hogenboom (Netherlands), Psychologist, Certified Trainer Educator Practitioner Psychodrama (TEP) and Certified Trainer Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM).
“The most rewarding part of my work is witnessing the moment when people experience a breakthrough and reconnect with their own strength and potential. Seeing their growth and transformation is incredibly fulfilling and motivates me to continue doing this meaningful work”.

Alina Dragan (Belgium): Clinical Psychologist, Certified Practitioner Psychodrama (CP),she has a private practice for adults and for individuals with non-congenital brain injury (ABI), as well as at Conciente – group practice for psychotherapy.
Memory reconsolidation occurs through the interaction between existing meaning and new input, which leads to a shift in meaning and therapeutic change via a favorable context and psychodramatic techniques.Seeing people grow and gain personal strength through this change process motivates me to purposefully research and apply psychodrama techniques.

About Memory Reconsolidation and Psychodrama

Why do some emotional patterns persist, even when we understand where they come from? And what makes deeply rooted beliefs and emotional learnings finally shift?

Memory reconsolidation offers a fascinating perspective on how lasting change may occur. According to this theory, change becomes possible when an existing emotional expectation is activated and then met with an experience that differs from what is expected. Such a mismatch experience can create an opportunity for old patterns to be revised and new meanings to emerge.

Psychodrama seems uniquely positioned to create these kinds of experiences. But what actually constitutes a mismatch experience in psychodrama? What role might role reversal, doubling, mirroring, or surplus reality play? And how can the lens of memory reconsolidation deepen our understanding of therapeutic change?

In this session, we will explore these questions together. Through dialogue, shared reflections, and examples from practice, we invite participants to investigate the intersections between memory reconsolidation and psychodrama and to consider what new possibilities this perspective may open for our work.

We invite everyone who wishes to participate in this dialogue to register:
register form september 1, 2026