Psychodrama goes digital!: Erste Schritte in der Gruppenselbsterfahrung mit Hilfe von Instant-Messaging, E-mail und Videokonferenzen in Zeiten der Covid-19-Pandemie

This contribution to the Zeitschrift für Psychodrama und Soziometrie (ZPS) deals with the fact that for Group self-experience, which is an essential part of the psychotherapy training, suddenly the intensive use of digital media has overwhelmed most of us in times of the Covid-19 pandemia. If we are no longer allowed to meet physically, these media show us the decisive option they offer for continuation of the psychotherapy- and training-groups. In the crisis it is most important for us human beings to keep in contact, support each other and learn from each other. This contribution presents a Psychodrama-Selfexperience Group, whose participants met for 40 training units until the restrictions of the Austrian Government with ban on assembly of more than 5 persons have been introduced. The following training sessions continue via digital media. The article wants to show an idea of how Psychodrama can still be effective and learned in times of Covid-19.