Believe in your power!

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For those who don’t know, in 2019 I went back to studying French. It started as a joke and soon I was enjoying it. It had been a while since I “learned something new”. It was very interesting to find myself accessing a side of my brain that seemed to be half asleep.

I have a lot of fun in my French classes, I have to say. I still don’t have goals or a purpose for it. However, deep down, there is a desire to read Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Lourau in the original, why not? Someday maybe…

Anyway, starting to get involved with the IAPG (International Association of Group Therapy and Group Processes) I started to ask myself “Is there Psychodrama in France?” “What about other francophone countries?” “Can I find a course to take while I’m in Europe?”

I swear, the same week I started to wonder about this, I saw a French Psychodramatist on the IAGP mailing list!! (Wifi connection with Universo). I asked my teacher for help and I opened a dialogue with her.

Carolina Becerril-Maillefert, psychologist, psychoanalyst and psychodramatist. Franco-Mexican with training in France, Mexico, the United States and Argentina. She has a center called “CEPSY Moreno” that offers training, workshops and psychodrama groups and she created the SFPS (French Society for Psychodrama and Sociometry). She kindly responded, showed me the book that a friend managed to bring (the shipping was more expensive than the book itself) and we began a very pleasant exchange.

Unfortunately, she didn’t attend the IAGP Congress and the center was leaving Paris for Nice. But we managed to meet in person in Paris and with her I was able to accomplish something very special for me: we had lunch together and we spent 2 hours and a half chatting in French. Very kindly she said “you are learning, so I’ll speak slowly and help you with the words you don’t know” ❤ May I speak? It was exciting!!

Even though I don’t have a clear destination in mind for this, I thought this moment was too special not only to introduce Carolina, but also to emphasize the possibility of achieving our dreams, even if they seem silly to us. The important thing for me is that the path has to be light and fun. Each of us has that potential within us. Believe in your power!!!