The psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry and role training done by Psychodrama Australia Brisbane Campus is accredited by the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association Inc's (ANZPA's) Board of Examiners.
Contact the Director of Training, Elizabeth Synnot, on 0411876969 or via e-mail: dizzysynnot@gmail.com
All training is being held at 1/55 Clarence St, Coorparoo.
Upcoming Events
These weekends are designed for those who have an interest in this method and want to learn more and for those considering entering the core training program.
You can expect to be introduced to the four specialties of psychodrama; role training, sociodrama, sociometry and psychodrama as group psychotherapy. It is likely that you will participate in an enactment to recreate a new living moment and perhaps a new solution to life’s vicissitudes.
For more information, click on the green View Event button.
This training is the heart of psychodrama training at the Psychodrama Australia Brisbane Campus. It is open to those new to training through to those preparing for certification with psychodrama's professional association, the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association (AANZPA).
This program runs for the year, starting with an interview and the creation of a ‘learning understanding’ in February. This is a four-term training program of nine weekends, one a month, and a five-day workshop in October. Dates and times for this Year long Program can be viewed by clicking on the green View Event button.
Those who join this core group have the option to attend the following as part of the one core training fee for the year, the Psychodrama Essentials workshops as a trained auxiliary and three x 8-hour Writing workshops.
200 hours of training will be completed in 2025 on the completion of core training and attending these optional events.
Entry for those new to psychodrama training is via the Psychodrama Essentials workshop held in February each year or September for the following year.
Leaders: Elizabeth Synnot, Patricia O’Rourke, Chris Hosking and Sara Crane.
Psychodrama writing - series of weekend workshops 2025
This series is designed for psychodrama trainees completing a writing task as part of their certification. These writing tasks are outlined in the AANZPA Training and Standards Manual of the Board of Examiners.
The dates and times for these workshops are as follows:
- 10 and 11 May
- 2 and 3 August
- 4 and 5 October
We meet at 1A, 55 Clarence Street, Coorparoo from 10 am to 2 pm each day.
The fee is incorporated into the core training fee for those enrolled for the year. For others, you may attend ad hoc or for the full series. The fee is $40 per session. Please pay using EFTPOS to Westpac Bank: Account name Psychodrama Australia, BSB 034058, Account number 320192.
Contact Elizabeth Synnot to discuss your interest in this series of workshops. Her mobile is 0411876969.
Tea and coffee will be available all day. There is a kitchen with fridge and microwave for your use. Please bring what you will enjoy eating and will sustain you through each day. The protocol we are using to ensure your health and safety during the workshop will be provided on enrolment. Of course, changes to requirements can happen rapidly and we commit to following the up to date advice of the Queensland Chief Medical Officer.
These weekends are designed for those who have an interest in this method and want to learn more and for those considering entering the core training program.
You can expect to be introduced to the four specialties of psychodrama; role training, sociodrama, sociometry and psychodrama as group psychotherapy. It is likely that you will participate in an enactment to recreate a new living moment and perhaps a new solution to life’s vicissitudes.
For more information, click on the green button View Event.
Event Cost:
$660 (incorporated already in fee for core training)
Focus of this weekend workshop to be advised.
Trainer: Chris Hosking
This workshop will be led by Chris Hosking, a Psychodramatist and Trainer, Educator and Practitioner on the teaching staff of Psychodrama Australia. Chris has conducted training workshops and seminars in psychodrama, sociometry, role training and group work for 28+ years and has been actively involved in supervision of trainees in Australia and New Zealand, Japan, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Europe.
Workshop dates and times:
Friday 12 September 2025 6.30pm-9.00pm
Saturday 13 September 2025 10.00am-6.00pm
Sunday 14 September 2025 10.00am-4.00pm
To register interest or enrol, click the green button above - Register Interest or Enrol Here.
This program is a five day non-residential psychodrama training workshop 16-20 October 2024 with Elizabeth Synnot and Sara Crane. The purpose of this five-day workshop is provide an intensive experiential training opportunity in psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry, role training and general group work.
For more information, click the green button View Event.
Current and Past Events
This training is the heart of psychodrama training at the Psychodrama Australia Brisbane Campus. It is open to those new to training through to those preparing for certification with psychodrama's professional association, the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association (AANZPA).
Psychodrama writing - series of weekend workshops 2024
This series is designed for psychodrama trainees completing a writing task as part of their certification. These writing tasks are outlined in the AANZPA Training and Standards Manual of the Board of Examiners.
This program is a five day non-residential psychodrama training workshop 16-20 October 2024 with Elizabeth Synnot and Sara Crane. The purpose of this five-day workshop is provide an intensive experiential training opportunity in psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry, role training and general group work.
These weekends are designed for those who have an interest in this method and want to learn more and for those considering entering the core training program.
You can expect to be introduced to the four specialties of psychodrama; role training, sociodrama, sociometry and psychodrama as group psychotherapy. It is likely that you will participate in an enactment to recreate a new living moment and perhaps a new solution to life’s vicissitudes.
Role training: Role development through Spontaneity and Practice
Role training is an effort to help us perform adequately in future situations. It is a method of learning that aims to bring about a rise in the spontaneity level of an individual and combine this with practice of a new expression.
Making an apparently minor change in an area of our functioning which we recognize as a role or part role, can result in a ripple effect in a larger sphere or system. Role training focuses on the development of one aspect of a role, but has in its larger view the transformation of the groups and culture in which we live.
In this workshop we will review in detail the steps in the role training method and practice the conduct of a session as well as participate as a protagonist. The learning will be experiential and participants can expect to be actively involved in all aspects of this group method.
In tis ambitious experiment participants will join a cruise through the philosophy, theories and techniqes of this holistic and pragmatic approach to enhancing human development - from deep inner functioning, via the social atom and other groups, cultural interactions to cosmic evolution
In tis ambitious experiment participants are invited to join a cruise through the philosophy, theories and techniqes of this holistic and pragmatic approach to enhancing human development - from deep inner functioning, via the social atom and other groups, cultural interactions to cosmic evolution.
PSYCHODRAMA AUSTRALIA - Brisbane Campus
Summary of Training Program for 2024
Term 1: February to May 2024
Psychodrama Essentials 24 and 25 February 2024
(Saturday and Sunday 10.00am to 4.00pm)
Cost: $450
Core, Intermediate and Advanced Training Program
Year long Program with 9 weekend workshops plus 5 day intensive workshop, This includes 9 Supervision evening sessions and access to 4 supervised writing sessions.
Total cost for the year: $3,300
Pre-training interviews: between 5-23 February 2024
Theme for term 1: Psychodrama with a focus on Social and Cultural Atom.
Weekend workshops -16 and 17 March 2024
-20 and 21 April 2024
-18 and 19 May 2024
Timing: Sat 12.00 - 6.00pm and Sun 9.00am to 1.00pm
Plus Supervision evenings -15 March 2024
-19 April 2024
-17 May 2024
Timing: Friday nights 6.30 - 8.30pm
Psychodrama Writing Workshop: 23 and 24 March 2024
25 and 26 May 2024
Timing: 10.00am to 2.00pm
Term 2: June to August 2024
Core, Intermediate and Advanced Program
Theme for Term 2: Psychodrama specialties: psychodrama, sociometry, role
training and sociodrama
Weekend workshops -15 and 16 June 2024
-13 and 14 July 2024
Timing: Sat 12.00 – 6.00pm and Sun 9.00am to 1.00pm
Plus 2 day and one evening workshop -16 to 18 August 2024
Note: essential component of Core plus open to other interested participants (cost to be advised for people not enrolled in Core)
Timing: to be advised
Plus Supervision evenings – 14 June, 12 July 2024
Timing: Fri nights 6.30 - 8.30pm
Psychodrama Writing Workshop: 10 and 11 August 2024
Timing: 10.00am to 2.00pm
Term 3: September to November 2024
Psychodrama Essentials 24 and 25 August 2024
(Saturday and Sunday 10.00am to 4.00pm)
Cost: $450
Core, Intermediate and Advanced Program
Theme for Term 3: Group Work and Psychodrama
Weekend workshops -14 and 15 September 2024
-16 and 17 November 2024
Timing: Sat 12.00 – 6.00pm and Sun 9.00am to 1.00pm
Plus 5 day Group Work and Psychodrama Workshop
16 to 20 October 2024
Timing: 10.00am to 8.00pm daily, except Sun 10.00am to 4.00pm
Note: essential component of Core plus open to other interested participants (Cost to people not enrolled in Core $1070)
Plus Supervision evening - 13 September,15 November 2024
Timing: Fri nights 6.30 - 8.30pm
5 day Group Work and Psychodrama: 16 to 20 October 2024
Timing: 10.00am to 8.00pm daily, except Sun 10.00am to 4.00pm
Note: essential component of Core plus open to other interested participants
Cost: $1070 (for people not enrolled in Core)
Psychodrama Writing Workshop: 26 and 27 October 2024
Timing: 10.00am to 2.00pm
These weekends are designed for those who have an interest in this method and want to learn more and for those considering entering the core training program.
You can expect to be introduced to the four specialties of psychodrama; role training, sociodrama, sociometry and psychodrama as group psychotherapy. It is likely that you will participate in an enactment to recreate a new living moment and perhaps a new solution to life’s vicissitudes.
Dates and times
Times: 10 am – 4 pm on Saturday 24 February and Sunday 25 February at 1A, 55 Clarence Street, Coorparoo.
The Relevance of Sociometry to our Experiences in Groups.
Sociometry has at its core a vision of cohesive groups, interpersonal mutuality and a stable society. Sociometry guides us to explore the psycho-social networks and deeper or hidden structures that affect the groups in which we live and work. The feeling nature of the informal, personal and often invisible systems is an exciting yet threatening field of exploration but the integration of the formal and informal fields can be exceptionally important to the success of a stable, cohesive and productive group.
In this workshop we will explore the sociometric factors that are at play in our groups both in the immediate here-and-now group, as well as other significant groups both past and current. We will be seeking to develop our ability to be the initiators of greater mutuality in relationships and leaders of cohesive groups.
Dates and Times: Friday 21 April from 6.30-8.30pm
Saturday 22 April from 10.00am to 5.30pm
Sunday 23 April from 10.00am to 4.00pm