Rehearsals For Living

Marianne Shapiro, M.A., T.E.P., is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor as well as a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner of Psychodrama, Group Psychotherapy and Sociometry (this is the study of group dynamics).  She believes in co-creating opportunities where we can safely be with the difficulties we experience in our daily living, in order to transform them into stories of new possibilities and love.

Bob Shapiro, M.Ed., C.P. is a Certified Practitioner of Psychodrama, Group Psychotherapy and Sociometry and enjoys aided others in take personal responsibility for their own lives.  He is also a Qi Gong and T’ai Chi instructor and begins each workshop or day shop by leading the group in qi gong exercises to help focus our energies, balance our minds and bodies and refresh our spirits.

Marianne and Bob have been co-facilitating on-going weekly groups and workshops for over twelve years and get great personal and interactive benefit from working and playing with others for the greater good of all our relations. In our blessing, we are blessed.

To become trained and certified nationally is this creative and effective form of group therapy has taken many years of training and practice. we wish to thank all of those along the way who have helped and encouraged us, specifically our trainers, John Raven Mosher and Georgia Rigg, and the many participants who have attended our workshops and groups.  We have been most fortunate to learn from our mistakes, a well has from our struggles and hard work.  We hope that the Atmosphere of love and acceptance in the psychodrama community, both nationally and here at home continues to flow into all that we do.