Currently there is no AANZPA accredited Campus in Adelaide.
Visiting trainers, and visiting and local practitioners, do conduct accredited workshops from time to time.
Please email psychodrama@icloud.com for details.
Upcoming Events
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.
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
Current and Past Events
Integrating imagination and intuition
- Increasing our own capacity to move between fantasy and reality in our work and life.
The imagination is a rich source of insight and inspiration passing through the awareness of each human at all times.
Psychodrama (the play of the soul) enables us to have fun and create meaning as we play with the images that arise spontaneously or through guided fantasy (book or movie or relaxation activity).
It also assists us to integrate these constructively in our daily life and work.
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. Passion and kindness go hand in hand along with a vision of creative living. Learning to reflect on ones behaviour and others will assist in making interventions. Learning to embrace conflict and problem solving, rather than avoiding concerns that arise, will strengthen relationships and assist in the development of a positive group culture. Leadership abilities and the application of the psychodramatic method will be a focus.
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.
The Healing is in the Relationship
Recently it has been widely recognised that success in counselling and therapy are hugely dependent on the quality of the relationship between the practitioner and the client. Hope and skill are also important in this and any professional work. This weekend will draw out the characteristics of a relationship which assists others to develop. Participants can expect to develop these abilities further themselves. The Psychodramatic method assists participants to increase their spontaneity and creativity through active participation. This participation includes group work, enactment and theoretical mini lectures. The program will assist in developing leadership and will lead to increasing abilities in relating to others. The training assists is developing confidence in group presentations and in the development of interpersonal and group skills.
7pm Friday 10th - 5pm Sunday 12th November 2017
In 2016 our training group together with others focussed on building a culture in which relationships flourish, where we are able to live and work. Passion and kindness go hand in hand along with a vision of creative living.Continuing this theme in 2017 we will learn to reflect on ways to create a new vital culture in the world. The apllication of the psychodramatic method will be our main focus.
Imagine how warmed up you will be by the end of this training workshop as you explore your own development within the group to aspire to new attitudes, behaviour and resolution of conflict. This will enable applications in your life and work. Integrating a new functioning of your behaviour and attitudes in daily life is a task worth undertaking and your 'creative genius' bursting into new life within you will guide you. You will learn how to warm the group up to a wide range of situations as you direct and lead during this weekend. In the Theatre of Spontaneity Jacob Moreno taught people to unfreeze their familar ways of working and freed them to act and interact on the spur of the moment.
Trainees will have adequate opportunity in this workshop to lead vignettes and dramas under supervision. As the image of the mandala implies there is a lot of colour' that can emerge when people work together with a leader who is willing to have a go; stay connected to the protagonist and is willing to experiment with a wide range of reponses to group concerns and group leadership. As in all of the workshops presented this year there will be opportunities to refresh and revise previosuly learned subject areas and skills.
This is our second Open Night for the year and we invite all who are interested in learning a little more about psychodrama. to come and to bring your friends.
Different perspectives on Group Work will be explored and in particular the work of W.R Bion and the Focal Conflict Model by Whitaker and Lieberman. Jacob Moreno observed when working with groups that "in a group each person becomes a therapeutic agent for the other, that there is a potential for healing through a vast variety of sociometric interconnections among group members." (Dayton 2005 p.137)
Working with Feeling
In this workshop participants can explore the range of meaning attributed to feelings in a variety of cultures, examine their own history in relation to feelings, and learn to work more constructively with their clients.
Psychodrama action method will be applied to the life of the group and work of individuals. Participants will have a chance to practice working with one another under supervision.
Feelings are our subjective experience of the activities of our limbic system. As such they give us an integrated readout on our perceptions and the meanings we make of them which is faster and richer than the conscious mind.
They range from subtle hunches, fleeting or nagging, through to full on passion.
We ignore them at our peril. They colour our relationships and can destroy our bodies over time.
Frequently they are not convenient. They do not obey the rules.
Learning to deal with feelings is a lifetime work. For the professional they present joy, serendipity, and a challenge.
This is the first of five training sessions in 2017. We offer an AANZPA accredited training program which caters for beginners, intermediate and advanced trainees.
Our first workshop will be useful to anyone who works in a group leadership role regardless of the nature and purpose of the group. We will begin with an experiential group session and during the workshop will take time to write and reflect on your learning process within the group. We will also include in this workshop stages of group development and group process. Our main text will be Dr G Clayton's Group Work Training Manual.