2014

Ann E. Hale, M.A., TEP,  is a past-president of ASGPP (1995-96), and recipient of numerous awards including the J. L. Moreno Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. She has authored three monographs on sociometry which have been made available electronicly. (See website www.sociometry.net )   As a trainer her strengths are assisting group members in enriching their connections to one another, finding ways their personal stories intersect. For practice of the methods,  a "mistakes allowed" atmosphere creates a safe way to build confidence and flourish. With co-trainer Donna Little,  MSW, TEP their groups explore choice points using sociometric processing. Trainees are asked to choose "rigor" or "support" during the processing sessions.  Ann developed the sociometric cycle (1986) and the interpersonal neurobiology cycle (2004) which assist groups in exploring role development over time.

2015

Dena Baumgartner, Ph.D., TEP, LMFT, LPC, CGP, was an elected board member for The International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP) from 2009 to 2018. She also served three years as Psychodrama Chair for IAGP from 2015 to 2018. Dena has 30+ years of private practice and group work. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama and was awarded the 2014 J.L Moreno Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. Dena served five years as chair of the awards committee for ASGPP and was co-recipient of the Collaboration Award from ASGPP in 2004. Dena has 23 years national and international trainer and presenter of Psychodrama. She also has 9 years of service on the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama in which she is also a Member and former Chair. In 1995, Dena received the J.L. Moreno Alumni Award for Outstanding Psychodramatist from St Elizabeth's Mental Hospital, DC, and was awarded a Certificate of Achievement from the Department of the United States Army for her work at the Fort Meade Counter-Terrorist Mission in 1984. For additional information, see https://www.denabaumgartner.com.

2016

John Raven Mosher, M.A., L.M.H.C., T.E.P., has been actively involved in the professional advancement of the fields of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy for over 38 years.  In 1975, John Raven Mosher began his psychodrama journey with Leon Fine, Ph.D., T.E.P., and Lee selected him in 1995 as the heir to his training and therapy groups when Lee became ill and too sick to work any longer. It was Lee who encouraged and mentored John to become active in the national psychodrama organizations. Since 1981, he has served The Federation of Trainers and Training Programs, The American Society of Group Psychotherapy, and The American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. In 1981, he wrote the Articles of Incorporation for the Federation and later served as Secretary of that organization.  He also Chaired the Seattle Federation Meeting in 1986 that attracted over 200 participants.  In 1986, he was appointed to the Executive Council of the ASGPP (completing Leon Fine’s term of office) and while on the Council he re-wrote the Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws. He served on the American Board of Examiners from 1987 to 1992 and again from 1993 to 1995.  While on the Board, he served as Chairperson and Secretary. His seminal and pioneering book on the healing circle system of psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy has been polished and refined in four separate editions.  He and Brigid Mosher also wrote a chapter on this model for Hudgins and Kellerman’s book (Psychodrama With Trauma Survivors:  Acting Out Your Pain). In addition he has written twelve other professional articles on topics as diverse as Effective Writing, Vocational Rehabilitation, and Psychodrama.  He has presented at numerous local, regional and national conferences including numerous times annual meetings of the Federation and the ASGPP.  He has presented internationally in Argentina, Canada, and Senegal. In 2002, he received the ASGPP Innovator’s Award for his pioneering work in writing and teaching of The Healing Circle:  Myth, Ritual and Therapy.  In 2005, he received the ASGPP Neil Passariello Award.   Since 1986, he has been a Fellow of the ASGPP. His passion and excellence in conducting both introductory and on-going psychodrama training workshops is legendary.  Over the years, literally thousands of mental health professionals have taken training with him, and he has extensively trained over 245 persons.  As a direct result of his mentoring and supporting those trainees, 25 have become certified practitioners and an additional six have become certified trainers.  He continues to direct one professional training group (Olympia), one psychodrama supervision group, and he co-directs three on-going psychodrama counseling groups.

2017 

Donna Little, M.S.W., T.E.P., loves the role of grandmother, and she has been practicing the role of 'midwife' to students of Psychodrama since 1980. She fell in love with Moreno's vision without ever meeting him. His role reversal with God and his identification with every person made his work of psychodrama a template that she could live by. She began with herself; bringing spontaneity to the cultural conserves she grew up with. She was birthed by Ann Hale who was a wonderful midwife, and then began to have hope that this method could help to forge a co-created world where all could contribute. She moved from needing psychodrama to free herself to seeing herself as an instrument in her world, and in the Toronto Centre for Psychodrama, and in the larger community. 

She has led workshops on spirituality in Canada, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. In the last ten years she has been leading workshops with Ann Hale, teaching sociometry. Ann and Donna collaborated to write a book (Sociometric Processing of Action Events). Their recent series of workshops has been on Sociometry and Healing, helping participants to discover the sociometry that underpins the Psychodrama and their connections in the group, and a sociometric lens that helps them see themselves, their clients and their world differently.  

Donna received the Hannah Weiner award for contribution to the A.S.G.P.P. and the Collaborators Award for the use of sociometry in an administrative system. The Toronto Centre is run by a collective. In March 2009, Donna received the J.L. Moreno Lifetime Achievement Award. 

Donna also trained in Systemic Constellation work with Heinz Stark. This family constellation work was begun by Virginia Satir, and then further developed by Bert Hellinger. The method works by recognizing and honoring the place of lost or missing ancestors, whose absence results in an unconscious identification by a member within a family, who then carries into the present an associated dysfunctional behavior out of love. In this recognition, which honors and acknowledges the rightful position of the ancestor, the current member of the family releases the carried behavior and becomes free to live their life.  Her six-week training in this method and the subsequent work has led her to see this as a natural extension of Sociometry and has enriched her approach to Psychodrama and Sociometry.  

She shared the keynote speeches in both the Psychodrama Conference in Taiwan in 2015, and the Second Annual Psychodrama Conference keynote in Nanjing, China in 2016. 

2018

Lorelei Joy Goldman, MA, TEP, is Training Director for The Psychodrama Training Institute of Chicago, a position she has held for over 25 years. She has presented nationally and internationally about the art and science of psychodrama. She has published in the journal, Elementary English, and in Beyond Behavior, a publication of the Council for Exceptional Children. In April 2014, she was named recipient of the Hannah B. Weiner Award for outstanding dedication and contributions made to the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, of which she is a Fellow member. In May 2017, she conducted an experimental workshop, “The Art of Spontaneity,” for Mather LifeWays to infuse vitality into the client interactions of professionals who serve older adults.