Save the Date: Positive Psychology in Action

Positive Psychology in Action: Sacred Mirror Works™

with Daniel Tomasulo, PhD TEP

 

December 4th- 6th, 2026

Friday 7 PM- 9 PM Saturday 9 AM- 6 PM Sunday 9 AM- 4:30 PM

Location: Boughton Place, Highland, NY Overnight accommodations are available on site and nearby.

Moreno built a stage. What he was really building was a mirror. This workshop returns to the original Moreno stage as a living instrument — and asks what happens when we bring the full weight of contemporary positive psychology into that space. Character strengths research, the Harmony Triad (gratitude, love, and hope), wellbeing science, and embodied spirituality through Sacred Mirror Work™ are not additions to psychodrama. They are psychodrama’s own deepest commitments, finally named. Designed specifically to combine the latest science of positive psychology with embodied cognition, this program assumes (but is not required*) that most attendees will have some understanding of classical techniques and will build from there. We will work on the stage, in the surplus reality, through the mirror — not to learn what psychodrama is, but to discover what it has always been capable of becoming. *Let us know if you have not had previous training in psychodrama or would like a refresher, and we will send you a short description of the method and a definition of terms.

You will learn how to:

  • Integrate VIA character strengths as the sociometric foundation of group warm-up, enactment, and sharing — replacing pathology-mapping with strengths-mapping as the primary relational currency of the stage
  • Apply the Harmony Triad (gratitude/past, love/present, hope/future) as a temporal framework for psychodramatic scene selection, role reversal, and protagonist work
  • Facilitate Sacred Mirror Work™ — using the mirror technique not as confrontation but as recognition, systematically creating the conditions for anagnorisis to arrive in the positive direction: not the revelation of what went wrong, but the realization of what remains whole.
  • Design and lead axiodramatic enactments that move groups from intellectual understanding of spiritual and ethical values into somatic, enacted wisdom.

Faculty

Dr. Tomasulo is the Academic Director and core faculty at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute (SMBI), Teachers College, Columbia University, and is on the teaching staff at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology, an MFA in writing, and a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Review Editor for Frontiers in Psychology, special section on Positive Psychology, and has been honored by Teachers College, Columbia University, with their 2021 Teaching Award. Read More.  

Registration Information and Payment

 

Cost: $615 Early Registration by October 15th : $500

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Current HVPI Core and Directing Cohort students and current registered Columbia University students receive a 10% discount- click here for information.

For more information please contact hvpi.registrar@gmail.com

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Continuing Education Hours

NYS Social Workers and LMHC’s: In collaboration with Allen Nace, PLLC. NYS LCAT’s: In collaboration with Water & Stone, a Creative Arts Therapy PLLC. NYS CASACS: HVPI is an approved continuing education provider for OASAS for alcohol and substance abuse counsellors. This course provides 15 hours of continuing education. 

NBCC: Hudson Valley Psychodrama, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP #6789. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Hudson Valley Psychodrama, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. This course is approved for 15 CE’s.

**Many states accept NBCC and/or NYS Continuing Education for Mental Health professionals and Substance Abuse counsellors. Check with your state licensing board.

Psychodrama Certification: This workshop offers 15 training hours towards certification by the American board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.

For more information regarding Continuing Education hours please click here.

Psychodrama Certification: This workshop offers 15 training hours towards certification by the American board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the use of VIA character strengths as the sociometric foundation of the three stages of a psychodrama: warm-up, enactment, and sharing.
  2. Design and lead at least one strengths-based sociometric exercise.
  3. Explain how mapping with strengths as the primary relational currency of the group stage can replace psychopathologizing.
  4. Apply the Harmony Triad (gratitude/past, love/present, hope/future) as a temporal framework for clinical scene selection.
  5. Apply the Harmony Triad position as a guide to protagonist selection, role reversal, scene setting, and closure in an enactment.
  6. Distinguish Sacred Mirror Work™ from classical mirror technique.
  7. Describe the clinical decision-making sequence—from identification of the Loyal Obstruction through self-witness to recognition of core strengths.
  8. Demonstrate its application in at least one directed or observed enactment.
  9. Design an axiodramatic intervention that moves a group from cognitive understanding of a spiritual or ethical value to embodied, enacted experience of that value.
  10. Construct a personal integration protocol that identifies at least three specific ways in which character strengths, components of the Harmony Triad, and Sacred Mirror Work™ can be incorporated into existing personal or professional practice.
  11. Explain how integrating psychodrama with components of the Harmony Triad and Sacred Mirror Work™ is consistent with evidence-based standards for wellbeing and positive psychology interventions.