Adelaide

Psychodrama Training Workshop (2 days) - March

For participants in the 2026 Training Group and trainees from Adelaide and those interested in experiencing and learning more about psychodrama and how it can enhance our lives. No prior experience is necessary but apply early as places are limited.

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28 March 2026             Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 March

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.

Trainee’s ability to make assessments will be enhanced during this workshop. There will be opportunities to investigate how the psychodramatic method can assist people who are anxious and depressed to warmup creatively and spontaneously to life. Trainees will familiarise themselves with what leads to anxiety and depression? Waking up to spontaneity and creativity can help to unblock repressed emotions and create healing.

The “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,”  DSM-V, will be introduced as one resource among many  during the weekend and a YouTube “The Five Main Anxiety Disorders” will be used as a warm up to introducing the topic.

In this first workshop we will explore and explain the Morenian stages of individual development: matrix of identity, the double, the mirror and role reversal. The associated specific psychodramatic techniques, doubling, mirroring and role reversal, will be applied.

In “The Living Spirit of the Psychodramatic Method” (2004) Max Clayton, who up until his death in March 2013, was a psychodramatist and trainer in Australia, and many other countries, reflects on how he develops a strong warm up to the stages of development from a psychodramatic point of view.  Re the Matrix of Identity, Max notes that at a very young age a person starts to become aware of themselves in a variety of situations. “We can think of a person who has developed a strong trust in life, they start to generate an awareness of things happening around them and they become aware of their own actions and sometimes become more aware of their own experience.” (Clayton & Carter 2004 p.46)

Attitudes, Values and Concerns - Sociodrama - Navigating Multiple Relationships.
Boundaries, professional ethics, sex, money, conflicts of interest, dual relationships. In traditional societies these complicated matters are closely codified and norms taught and enforced. We live in a society where the traditional protocols between individuals no longer apply and are not passed on, even where there is token acceptance. This often bewildering and painful maze demands sophisticated abilities to negotiate.
Participating in this workshop will alert participants to potential conflicts of interest in their own world and in that of those around them. Action investigation and role-reversal, and perhaps some healing, will feature as we seek to develop more adequacy in navigating these cross currents.

This training weekend will focus on spontaneity training and role theory as energetic and vigorous ways to learn about personality and to make personality assessments. 

Our social atom changes over time. This weekend will explore questions of meaning such as whom do I choose in my personal network of trusted companions to ‘remain on the front foot’? Diana Jones Leadership Material; How Personal Expereince shapes Executive Presence (2017)

What do I want to change, expand, let go to develop a strong sense of belonging in the world, sense of identity and spiritual wellbeing?

In this first training weekend we will use group work, dramas, vignettes self-presentation and reflection to explore how our lives are influenced by anxiety and fear and what steps we can take to integrate our roles to create a freedom to act.