Meet your Co-Facilitators:

Bob and Mariann Shapiro

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Mariann and Bob Shapiro have been co-facilitating Rehearsal for LIving since 2000.  Since then have become even better practitioners -wiser, kinder, more fluid. They provide resilient and creative group space for adult participants to explore where they are at and what forward movement is wanting to happen. People come to this work with or without prior experience. 

Mariann and Bob complement, reinforce and aide the group in moving through complex, dynamic, surpriseningly fresh, healing, connective  and challenging group processes.


Mariann Shapiro

MFA, MA, LMHC, TEP

Mariannʼs strengths come through in her ability to connect with others, working intuitively and creatively with the group's hidden challenges and ever present strengths while bringing enthusiasm, sensitivity, intelligence, vulnerability, and humor to the change process. Her background is in the creative arts, mental health counseling, and group processes.

Mariann earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts and a Teaching Certification in 1972 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She earned a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from York University in Ontario, Canada in 1976. She taught Art and Humanities part-time at Whatcom Community College, 1982-1985. She practiced as a Certified Acupressure Practitioner, a form of mind body work incorporating Chinese Five Element Theory and emotional health from 1985-2000, during this time she held a Washington State Massage License.

Mariann earned a Masters Degree in Psychology and Counseling from Antioch University in Seattle in 1989. Since then she is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a full time private practice in Skagit County.  In 2005, Mariann became a Board Certified Practitioner and in 2010 a Board Certified Trainer and Teacher of Psychodrama, Group Psychotherapy, and Sociometry. From 2017-2020 she served on the Executive Council of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. She current serves on the Board of Directors for the Jacob and Zerka Moreno Legacy Foundation. She enjoys teaching Psychodrama to Graduate student as an Adjunct Professor at Antioch University Seattle. 


Bob Shapiro

M.Ed, CP

Bob is respectful, grounded, practical, and focused as he works consciously, carefully and creatively, helping group members explore the issues they are carrying with them. His steady heartbeat holds the group well. He enjoys teaching Tʼai Chi and Qi Gong in Skagit and  County. His background is in conflict resolution, community organizing, and mediation. He is Certified as a Practitioner of Psychodrama, Group Psychotherapy, and Sociometry by the American Board of Examiners. Bob holds a Masterʼs Degree in Adult Education.

Bob graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree from Indiana University, with a Bachelor’s in Economics and Community Organizing, and with a Master’s Degree in Adult Education from Western Washington University in 2004. He Trained and Certified as a Mediator and is a Superior Court registered Family Mediator as well as Business Mediation and does this on a case by case basis. He became a Board Certified Psychodrama Practitioner in 2005. Bob owned and operated Deli Llama Wilderness Adventures for 27 years, in the Pasayten Wilderness, the Olympics, and the North Cascades.  He enjoyed these mountain trekking adventures with groups of people, serving as an outfitter guide with his pack string of Llamas, and with Mariann's assistance.  He has been practicing Tai Chi for 50 years and teaching T’ai Chi and Qi Gong for 30 years

Read More About Bob’s T’ai Chi And Qi Gong Teachings Here

What is Psychodrama?



Psychodrama is hard to describe, as it is a co created group experience wherein the dynamics of what happens emerges organically out of the group’s behaviors, awareness and concerns . There are psychodramatists all over the world, and every one of them shares the foundational theories, philosophy and methods developed over the past 102 years, beginning with the founder, J.L. Moreno and his co-creators.  The best way to find out about Psychodrama is to experience this living group process. 

Why Participate in Rehearsals for Living?

Through rehearsals, you explore the roles you play and practice the roles you would like to play. Many roles we took on out of necessity and have not had time to step back and witness our behavior or chose roles that we want.  This group work allows us to increase our awareness of the roles we play in life and explore ways we can access more of the life we want through playing with roles in more life enhancing ways. Rehearsals for Living is an experiential group process that creates a supportive environment for trying fresh ways of responding to life’s surprises and challenges.


In our group work and play, we practice living in the here and now. The work evolves out of the work that we do together, we co create from the efforts of the group participants. Rehearsals for Living explores our dynamic relationship conundrums in engaging and revealing ways, helping us to release patterns of behavior that are no longer working for us. We practice new ways of responding. We learn to become fluid, connective, and responsive to ourselves, the people in our lives, and society. .

Our groups provide that Extra that life might not provide–an opportunity to try out new behaviors and explore possibilities with the support of experienced and trained facilitators and the integrity of focused, exploratory, and committed group members. The group learns and evolves together. Our rehearsals are held within the structure of Psychodrama, Group Psychotherapy, and Sociometry, which is the experiential study, practice, and exploration of complex, dynamic group interaction examining the choices we make for ourselves and others.



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