Psychodramatic Resiliency Timeline

Abstract

This article explains how to use a Psychodramatic Resiliency Timeline to identify, concretize,

and build on inter-, intra-, and transpersonal strengths. Trauma informed practices

understand the necessity of creating safety from a strength-based perspective. By working

with a person’s innate drive to tell stories and share their experiences, we can use the

psychodramatic concepts of surplus reality, time, and space to mark ‘‘difficult times’’ in a

client’s life and highlight and foster buried resources. By creating a living graph that

incrementally marks their times of crisis and resiliency along an invisible line, resources

procured from the past can now be materialized and externalized to help with a client’s

current situation and meet their treatment plan goals. These resources can be revisited at

any time and lay the groundwork for the deep, valuable, and transformative work that

psychodrama allows us to co-create with clients.