Psychodrama is an applied, expressive and experiential group method focussed on J.L. Moreno’s spontaneity theory, role theory and group work. A variety of workshops will be offered in Adelaide in 2025.
Psychodrama training is relevant for people wanting to enliven themselves, their personal relationships and their professional functioning. Psychodrama method can be applied in various contexts including mental health, educational, organisational and community settings.
Upcoming Events
February – November 2025
Psychodrama training group (60 hours)
with Patricia O’Rourke
This series of six one and a half day training workshops will be for a closed group. Trainees will deepen their understanding of psychodrama, expand their role repertoire and capacity for spontaneity, and experience the potential of the psychodrama method.
The training will assist people interested in working with others in innovative and creative ways, with increased liveliness and from multiple perspectives.
The aim is to increase trainees’ capacity to create and maintain co-operative, authentic relationships and an enhanced sense of purpose, through learning about and participation in psychodramatic enactment and group work.
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March 28th – 30th, 2025
Weekend workshop
with Elizabeth Synnot and Patricia O’Rourke
This weekend workshop is for trainees and those interested in experiencing psychodrama. The focus will be Moreno’s concept of the Social and Cultural Atom as a way of mapping and making meaning in our work and our lives.
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For participants in the 2025 Adelaide training group and other folk who are actively engaged with psychodrama training.
Current and Past Events
Psychodrama Training Weekend Workshop
in Adelaide - 25,26 and 27 October 2024
with Patricia O'Rourke and Elizabeth Synnot
Psychodrama is an expressive, playful and experiential group method. In this workshop we will work with what is emerging in the present moment in ourselves and in our relationships with others.
We will use psychodrama method to explore our current concerns, create multiple perspectives and generate new responses. In the group and on the psychodrama stage, we will attend to what emerges in our experience and how it relates to our everyday lives
In the psychodrama context, first comes the experience, then comes the learning. Zerka Moreno
This training workshop is for trainees and those interested in experiencing and learning more about psychodrama and how it can enhance our lives and work. It is highly recommended for those wishing to enter the ongoing psychodrama training group in Adelaide in 2025.
When Where
6pm-9pm Friday 25 October Fullarton Park Community Centre
9am-5pm Saturday 26 October 411 Fullarton Rd
9am- 2pm Sunday 27 October Fullarton SA 5063
16 participants only Total cost $440.00
Patricia O’Rourke PhD
Patricia is a psychodramatist, child psychotherapist and trainer at PABC . She has worked as a psychotherapist for over thirty years with infants, children and their families, individual adults and groups. Creating relationship and applying psychodrama method is the heart of her work. She is a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner in training (TEPit), a Senior Lecturer in the Paediatric Mental Health Training Unit, University of Adelaide and a supervisor /trainer in private practice.
Elizabeth Synnot TEP
Elizabeth (Diz) is a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner (TEP) and Director of the Brisbane Campus of Psychodrama Australia (PABC). She is a sociodrama practitioner applying Moreno's approach as the basis of her work with individuals, families, and organisations. She has been co-leading the Core, Intermediate and Advanced training programs in Brisbane for nearly 20 years. Elizabeth has been expanding her practice in family, leadership and team development. She gives and receives supervision and training in this method.
Psychodrama Training Weekend Workshop in Adelaide
10,11,12 May 2024
Psychodrama is an experiential, group method that can be applied in a wide variety of settings – therapeutic, educational, organisational and community.
Using the concerns that emerge in the group, the training workshop will emphasise the integration of the theory and practice of psychodrama. We will draw on supervised experiential learning in psychodrama and group work to develop our spontaneity, enrich different aspects of our functioning, increase our capacity to think systemically and enlarge our roles as group members and group leaders.
These training workshop are for trainees and those interested in experiencing and learning the psychodrama methodology and applying it in your work.
This training will assist participants in developing leadership abilities in all situations and to integrate learning done in the group to their daily life – work, play and relationships – with a view to increasing their capacity to rise creatively to life’s challenges.
his program is designed for professional people who are involved in health, theatre, management, leadership, consultancies, coaching, mentoring, supervision, art, writing, teaching, human potential and creative therapies. The process will assist in the deepening of abilities to step into the shoes of others and this will contribute to the effectiveness of those who are therapists, counsellors, psychotherapists, health workers, managers, trainers and educators, actors, artists, writers and poet.
Learning to apply the systemic action process known as the psychodrama method is grounded in workshop events and participants’ interests.
This training will assist participants in developing leadership abilities in all situations and to integrate learning done in the group to their daily life – work, play and relationships – with a view to increasing their capacity to rise creatively to life’s challenges.
Learning to apply the systemic action process known as the psychodrama method is grounded in workshop events and participants’ interests. Trainer: Rob Brodie
Psychodrama is an applied experiential, group method. It is learned in a group and can be applied in a variety of settings – therapeutic, educational, organisational and community.
This training workshop is for trainees and those interested in experiencing and learning more about psychodrama and how it can enhance our lives. No prior experience of psychodrama is required but apply early as places are limited.
“Our levels of spontaneity are affected by context and relationships.
Spontaneity flourishes in a universe in which some degree of novelty is continuously possible”
Jacob Moreno (Founder of Psychodrama)
This workshop will introduce Morenian thinking around Spontaneity – its different forms, its relationship to anxiety and how we can train ourselves to be more present and spontaneous.
We will focus on being fully present in the moment: what it looks and feels like, what gets in the way and what assists us and how it enhances our capacity to be both with ourselves and with one another.
The workshop aims to wake us up to our spontaneity and to assist us to look with fresh eyes at the possibility of the present moment.
Psychodrama is a relational method. Dr JL Moreno the founder of psychodrama provides us with concepts and methods that enable us to recognise and articulate and apply elements and processes which constitute a relationship and enable us to participate to our mutual benefit. This workshop will focus on building a culture in which relationships flourish, where we are able to live and build, where healing and purpose can be fulfilled. The training assists in developing confidence in group presentations and in the development of interpersonal and group skills. There will be both celebration of and reflection on training in this workshop.
Psychodrama Training Weekend
Psychodrama is a relational method. Dr JL Moreno the founder of psychodrama provides us with concepts and methods that enable us to recognise and articulate and apply elements and processes which constitute a relationship and enable us to participate to our mutual benefit. This workshop will focus on building a culture in which relationships flourish, where we are able to live and build, where healing and purpose can be fulfilled. The training assists in developing confidence in group presentations and in the development of interpersonal and group skills. Expect some writing and reflection time in each training weekend.
Psychodrama is a relational method. Dr JL Moreno the founder of psychodrama provides us with concepts and methods that enable us to recognise and articulate and apply elements and processes which constitute a relationship and enable us to participate to our mutual benefit. This workshop will focus on building a culture in which relationships flourish, where we are able to live and build, where healing and purpose can be fulfilled. The training assists in developing confidence in group presentations and in the development of interpersonal and group skills. Expect some writing and reflection time in each training weekend.
Psychodrama is a relational method. Dr JL Moreno the founder of psychodrama provides us with concepts and methods that enable us to recognise and articulate and apply elements and processes which constitute a relationship and enable us to participate to our mutual benefit. This workshop will focus on building a culture in which relationships flourish, where we are able to live and build, where healing and purpose can be fulfilled. The training assists in developing confidence in group presentations and in the development of interpersonal and group skills. Expect some writing and reflection time in each training weekend.