Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart
@catharsistheater.bsky.social
💔 A welcoming space to bring any hurt, with 100+ years of psychodrama wisdom.
🔥 In-person in LA & nationwide — & virtual.
✨ Expect connection, movement, laughter. Speak, be silent, witness, or join — always at your pace.
🌊 caligrief.com/catharsis-theater
🔥 In-person in LA & nationwide — & virtual.
✨ Expect connection, movement, laughter. Speak, be silent, witness, or join — always at your pace.
🌊 caligrief.com/catharsis-theater
5/5
To browse is to believe that not everything must be known in advance.
That meaning still lives in the unsorted and the unseen.
Maybe healing—and art—begin the same way:
Not by searching, but by wandering.
#Bluesky #Grief #Psychology #Attention #Sociometry #Healing #MeaningMaking
To browse is to believe that not everything must be known in advance.
That meaning still lives in the unsorted and the unseen.
Maybe healing—and art—begin the same way:
Not by searching, but by wandering.
#Bluesky #Grief #Psychology #Attention #Sociometry #Healing #MeaningMaking
October 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
5/5
To browse is to believe that not everything must be known in advance.
That meaning still lives in the unsorted and the unseen.
Maybe healing—and art—begin the same way:
Not by searching, but by wandering.
#Bluesky #Grief #Psychology #Attention #Sociometry #Healing #MeaningMaking
To browse is to believe that not everything must be known in advance.
That meaning still lives in the unsorted and the unseen.
Maybe healing—and art—begin the same way:
Not by searching, but by wandering.
#Bluesky #Grief #Psychology #Attention #Sociometry #Healing #MeaningMaking
4/5
Our attention has become a casualty of convenience.
Algorithms curate comfort; browsing invited risk.
You could find something that changed you—or confused you.
In grief and in life, that confusion was sacred. It meant you were becoming.
Our attention has become a casualty of convenience.
Algorithms curate comfort; browsing invited risk.
You could find something that changed you—or confused you.
In grief and in life, that confusion was sacred. It meant you were becoming.
October 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
4/5
Our attention has become a casualty of convenience.
Algorithms curate comfort; browsing invited risk.
You could find something that changed you—or confused you.
In grief and in life, that confusion was sacred. It meant you were becoming.
Our attention has become a casualty of convenience.
Algorithms curate comfort; browsing invited risk.
You could find something that changed you—or confused you.
In grief and in life, that confusion was sacred. It meant you were becoming.
3/5
J.L. Moreno believed every person is an unfinished play.
Browsing was our rehearsal—wandering the world’s library, guided by impulse and intuition.
When we stop moving, the psyche stops improvising.
Scrolling gives us content; browsing gave us contact.
J.L. Moreno believed every person is an unfinished play.
Browsing was our rehearsal—wandering the world’s library, guided by impulse and intuition.
When we stop moving, the psyche stops improvising.
Scrolling gives us content; browsing gave us contact.
October 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
3/5
J.L. Moreno believed every person is an unfinished play.
Browsing was our rehearsal—wandering the world’s library, guided by impulse and intuition.
When we stop moving, the psyche stops improvising.
Scrolling gives us content; browsing gave us contact.
J.L. Moreno believed every person is an unfinished play.
Browsing was our rehearsal—wandering the world’s library, guided by impulse and intuition.
When we stop moving, the psyche stops improvising.
Scrolling gives us content; browsing gave us contact.
2/5
In therapy, we learn that healing rarely comes fast.
It requires lingering, attunement, surprise.
The slow work of browsing—whether for books or belonging—mirrors that.
It’s the sociometry of the soul: each encounter shaping who we are drawn toward next.
In therapy, we learn that healing rarely comes fast.
It requires lingering, attunement, surprise.
The slow work of browsing—whether for books or belonging—mirrors that.
It’s the sociometry of the soul: each encounter shaping who we are drawn toward next.
October 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
2/5
In therapy, we learn that healing rarely comes fast.
It requires lingering, attunement, surprise.
The slow work of browsing—whether for books or belonging—mirrors that.
It’s the sociometry of the soul: each encounter shaping who we are drawn toward next.
In therapy, we learn that healing rarely comes fast.
It requires lingering, attunement, surprise.
The slow work of browsing—whether for books or belonging—mirrors that.
It’s the sociometry of the soul: each encounter shaping who we are drawn toward next.
5/5
🌿 Invitation: craft apps and communities that gift time back. Ask for attention pledges. Create shared contemplation rooms. Choose savor over scroll.
#Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #MentalHealth #Psychodrama #Sociometry #Design #MeaningOfLife
🌿 Invitation: craft apps and communities that gift time back. Ask for attention pledges. Create shared contemplation rooms. Choose savor over scroll.
#Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #MentalHealth #Psychodrama #Sociometry #Design #MeaningOfLife
October 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
5/5
🌿 Invitation: craft apps and communities that gift time back. Ask for attention pledges. Create shared contemplation rooms. Choose savor over scroll.
#Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #MentalHealth #Psychodrama #Sociometry #Design #MeaningOfLife
🌿 Invitation: craft apps and communities that gift time back. Ask for attention pledges. Create shared contemplation rooms. Choose savor over scroll.
#Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #MentalHealth #Psychodrama #Sociometry #Design #MeaningOfLife
4/5
🧠💚 For mental health, lingering is regulation. In psychodrama and sociometry, JL and Zerka Moreno slowed the room so tele can form, stories breathe, and sociatry heals the field. Less chasing, more being with.
🧠💚 For mental health, lingering is regulation. In psychodrama and sociometry, JL and Zerka Moreno slowed the room so tele can form, stories breathe, and sociatry heals the field. Less chasing, more being with.
October 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
4/5
🧠💚 For mental health, lingering is regulation. In psychodrama and sociometry, JL and Zerka Moreno slowed the room so tele can form, stories breathe, and sociatry heals the field. Less chasing, more being with.
🧠💚 For mental health, lingering is regulation. In psychodrama and sociometry, JL and Zerka Moreno slowed the room so tele can form, stories breathe, and sociatry heals the field. Less chasing, more being with.
3/5
🧭 Design moves to try: slow release reading, depth over breadth recommendations, intentional asynchronicity. Hold a message an hour. Let an album loop five times. Space is a teacher.
🧭 Design moves to try: slow release reading, depth over breadth recommendations, intentional asynchronicity. Hold a message an hour. Let an album loop five times. Space is a teacher.
October 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
3/5
🧭 Design moves to try: slow release reading, depth over breadth recommendations, intentional asynchronicity. Hold a message an hour. Let an album loop five times. Space is a teacher.
🧭 Design moves to try: slow release reading, depth over breadth recommendations, intentional asynchronicity. Hold a message an hour. Let an album loop five times. Space is a teacher.
2/5
🕯️ The hsiang-yin measures time by scent. Han calls it fragrant time. Not points, but presence. Our feeds atomize days into flickers. Lingering rebuilds duration so memory and meaning can settle.
🕯️ The hsiang-yin measures time by scent. Han calls it fragrant time. Not points, but presence. Our feeds atomize days into flickers. Lingering rebuilds duration so memory and meaning can settle.
October 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
2/5
🕯️ The hsiang-yin measures time by scent. Han calls it fragrant time. Not points, but presence. Our feeds atomize days into flickers. Lingering rebuilds duration so memory and meaning can settle.
🕯️ The hsiang-yin measures time by scent. Han calls it fragrant time. Not points, but presence. Our feeds atomize days into flickers. Lingering rebuilds duration so memory and meaning can settle.
(5/5)
✨ Meaning of life, in four strings: remember, respond, restore, rejoice. Let us build rooms where silence becomes song and grief becomes courage. #Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #MentalHealth #TraumaHealing #Psychodrama #Sociometry #History
✨ Meaning of life, in four strings: remember, respond, restore, rejoice. Let us build rooms where silence becomes song and grief becomes courage. #Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #MentalHealth #TraumaHealing #Psychodrama #Sociometry #History
October 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
(5/5)
✨ Meaning of life, in four strings: remember, respond, restore, rejoice. Let us build rooms where silence becomes song and grief becomes courage. #Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #MentalHealth #TraumaHealing #Psychodrama #Sociometry #History
✨ Meaning of life, in four strings: remember, respond, restore, rejoice. Let us build rooms where silence becomes song and grief becomes courage. #Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #MentalHealth #TraumaHealing #Psychodrama #Sociometry #History
(4/5)
🧭 The cello’s journey maps a human one: stolen, hidden, restored, played for the living and the dead. Sociometry asks who stands with whom. Sociatry asks how we heal the whole. Our task: turn rupture into relation.
🧭 The cello’s journey maps a human one: stolen, hidden, restored, played for the living and the dead. Sociometry asks who stands with whom. Sociatry asks how we heal the whole. Our task: turn rupture into relation.
October 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
(4/5)
🧭 The cello’s journey maps a human one: stolen, hidden, restored, played for the living and the dead. Sociometry asks who stands with whom. Sociatry asks how we heal the whole. Our task: turn rupture into relation.
🧭 The cello’s journey maps a human one: stolen, hidden, restored, played for the living and the dead. Sociometry asks who stands with whom. Sociatry asks how we heal the whole. Our task: turn rupture into relation.
(3/5)
🌊 Old vs new cellos. Blind tests say players matter most. Therapy is like that. Methods help, but presence makes music. Moreno and Zerka taught this in psychodrama: action, encounter, tele. Healing is co created.
🌊 Old vs new cellos. Blind tests say players matter most. Therapy is like that. Methods help, but presence makes music. Moreno and Zerka taught this in psychodrama: action, encounter, tele. Healing is co created.
October 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
(3/5)
🌊 Old vs new cellos. Blind tests say players matter most. Therapy is like that. Methods help, but presence makes music. Moreno and Zerka taught this in psychodrama: action, encounter, tele. Healing is co created.
🌊 Old vs new cellos. Blind tests say players matter most. Therapy is like that. Methods help, but presence makes music. Moreno and Zerka taught this in psychodrama: action, encounter, tele. Healing is co created.
(2/5)
🕯️ Music as grief work: practice rooms, tendonitis, hunger, then the choice to live. This is mental health in the wild. Anxiety is many feelings braided. Regulation begins when breath meets bow and a room remembers you.
🕯️ Music as grief work: practice rooms, tendonitis, hunger, then the choice to live. This is mental health in the wild. Anxiety is many feelings braided. Regulation begins when breath meets bow and a room remembers you.
October 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
(2/5)
🕯️ Music as grief work: practice rooms, tendonitis, hunger, then the choice to live. This is mental health in the wild. Anxiety is many feelings braided. Regulation begins when breath meets bow and a room remembers you.
🕯️ Music as grief work: practice rooms, tendonitis, hunger, then the choice to live. This is mental health in the wild. Anxiety is many feelings braided. Regulation begins when breath meets bow and a room remembers you.
(5/5)
To be human is to sail toward what we can’t fully name.
Across time, we still build rafts of meaning and test the currents of connection.
Each voyage is a rehearsal for healing. 🌊
#Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #Psychodrama #Sociometry #Healing #Humanity #Meaning
To be human is to sail toward what we can’t fully name.
Across time, we still build rafts of meaning and test the currents of connection.
Each voyage is a rehearsal for healing. 🌊
#Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #Psychodrama #Sociometry #Healing #Humanity #Meaning
October 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
(5/5)
To be human is to sail toward what we can’t fully name.
Across time, we still build rafts of meaning and test the currents of connection.
Each voyage is a rehearsal for healing. 🌊
#Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #Psychodrama #Sociometry #Healing #Humanity #Meaning
To be human is to sail toward what we can’t fully name.
Across time, we still build rafts of meaning and test the currents of connection.
Each voyage is a rehearsal for healing. 🌊
#Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #Psychodrama #Sociometry #Healing #Humanity #Meaning
(4/5)
The Lipps–Signor Effect says fossils mark only glimpses, not beginnings or ends.
So it is with memory and grief: what remains is the echo between.
The boats are gone, but the longing to cross distances endures. ⚓
The Lipps–Signor Effect says fossils mark only glimpses, not beginnings or ends.
So it is with memory and grief: what remains is the echo between.
The boats are gone, but the longing to cross distances endures. ⚓
October 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
(4/5)
The Lipps–Signor Effect says fossils mark only glimpses, not beginnings or ends.
So it is with memory and grief: what remains is the echo between.
The boats are gone, but the longing to cross distances endures. ⚓
The Lipps–Signor Effect says fossils mark only glimpses, not beginnings or ends.
So it is with memory and grief: what remains is the echo between.
The boats are gone, but the longing to cross distances endures. ⚓
(3/5)
Psychodrama teaches that healing comes from action.
The first mariners knew this—each paddle stroke a test of trust and belonging.
Moreno called it tele—the invisible current between souls, first felt between wind and tide. 🌬️🌊
Psychodrama teaches that healing comes from action.
The first mariners knew this—each paddle stroke a test of trust and belonging.
Moreno called it tele—the invisible current between souls, first felt between wind and tide. 🌬️🌊
October 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
(3/5)
Psychodrama teaches that healing comes from action.
The first mariners knew this—each paddle stroke a test of trust and belonging.
Moreno called it tele—the invisible current between souls, first felt between wind and tide. 🌬️🌊
Psychodrama teaches that healing comes from action.
The first mariners knew this—each paddle stroke a test of trust and belonging.
Moreno called it tele—the invisible current between souls, first felt between wind and tide. 🌬️🌊
(2/5)
The ocean is the first therapist. It asks: Will you face what you can’t see?
Those in bamboo rafts and dugout canoes practiced ancestral psychology—
curiosity as courage, navigation as self-trust.
Every voyage was both migration and meditation. 🌅
The ocean is the first therapist. It asks: Will you face what you can’t see?
Those in bamboo rafts and dugout canoes practiced ancestral psychology—
curiosity as courage, navigation as self-trust.
Every voyage was both migration and meditation. 🌅
October 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
(2/5)
The ocean is the first therapist. It asks: Will you face what you can’t see?
Those in bamboo rafts and dugout canoes practiced ancestral psychology—
curiosity as courage, navigation as self-trust.
Every voyage was both migration and meditation. 🌅
The ocean is the first therapist. It asks: Will you face what you can’t see?
Those in bamboo rafts and dugout canoes practiced ancestral psychology—
curiosity as courage, navigation as self-trust.
Every voyage was both migration and meditation. 🌅
(5/5)
💫 Perhaps the meaning of life is this: we keep finding ways to say “I see you” even in the noise. From ancient rituals to digital taps, we try to stitch together belonging. To heal, to grieve, to live.
#Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #MentalHealth #Wellness #Psychology #Humanity
💫 Perhaps the meaning of life is this: we keep finding ways to say “I see you” even in the noise. From ancient rituals to digital taps, we try to stitch together belonging. To heal, to grieve, to live.
#Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #MentalHealth #Wellness #Psychology #Humanity
October 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
(5/5)
💫 Perhaps the meaning of life is this: we keep finding ways to say “I see you” even in the noise. From ancient rituals to digital taps, we try to stitch together belonging. To heal, to grieve, to live.
#Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #MentalHealth #Wellness #Psychology #Humanity
💫 Perhaps the meaning of life is this: we keep finding ways to say “I see you” even in the noise. From ancient rituals to digital taps, we try to stitch together belonging. To heal, to grieve, to live.
#Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #MentalHealth #Wellness #Psychology #Humanity
(4/5)
🌍 In every age, humans invent new languages of care. From speed dial to Snapchat hearts to Instagram likes, we chase connection in changing forms. The danger is mistaking data for devotion. Wellness asks us: what is real, what is illusion?
🌍 In every age, humans invent new languages of care. From speed dial to Snapchat hearts to Instagram likes, we chase connection in changing forms. The danger is mistaking data for devotion. Wellness asks us: what is real, what is illusion?
October 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
(4/5)
🌍 In every age, humans invent new languages of care. From speed dial to Snapchat hearts to Instagram likes, we chase connection in changing forms. The danger is mistaking data for devotion. Wellness asks us: what is real, what is illusion?
🌍 In every age, humans invent new languages of care. From speed dial to Snapchat hearts to Instagram likes, we chase connection in changing forms. The danger is mistaking data for devotion. Wellness asks us: what is real, what is illusion?
(3/5)
🧠 Moreno dreamed of healing through sociometry—mapping invisible ties between people. Today, “likes” and emojis are our crude sociograms. They measure presence, not depth. They show where the threads lie but not the meaning woven through them.
🧠 Moreno dreamed of healing through sociometry—mapping invisible ties between people. Today, “likes” and emojis are our crude sociograms. They measure presence, not depth. They show where the threads lie but not the meaning woven through them.
October 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
(3/5)
🧠 Moreno dreamed of healing through sociometry—mapping invisible ties between people. Today, “likes” and emojis are our crude sociograms. They measure presence, not depth. They show where the threads lie but not the meaning woven through them.
🧠 Moreno dreamed of healing through sociometry—mapping invisible ties between people. Today, “likes” and emojis are our crude sociograms. They measure presence, not depth. They show where the threads lie but not the meaning woven through them.
(2/5)
💌 What does it mean when someone taps your story? For some, it’s affection. For others, social maintenance. For many, just “cool post.” This ambiguity mirrors grief and love alike—simple gestures carrying multitudes we cannot pin down.
💌 What does it mean when someone taps your story? For some, it’s affection. For others, social maintenance. For many, just “cool post.” This ambiguity mirrors grief and love alike—simple gestures carrying multitudes we cannot pin down.
October 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
(2/5)
💌 What does it mean when someone taps your story? For some, it’s affection. For others, social maintenance. For many, just “cool post.” This ambiguity mirrors grief and love alike—simple gestures carrying multitudes we cannot pin down.
💌 What does it mean when someone taps your story? For some, it’s affection. For others, social maintenance. For many, just “cool post.” This ambiguity mirrors grief and love alike—simple gestures carrying multitudes we cannot pin down.