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
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.
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.
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
Often towards the end of the year folks look back and ponder how the year has gone or where it’s gone; some wonder how the might survive the Christmas break, and some wonder where they might go to from here. Often there is a year-end frenzy of so-called celebrations, lunches, preparations for the coming new year, and other provocations. This workshop is designed for people who would like to take the time to connect with themselves, polish rough spots, pack their emergency gear for the coming onslaught, and simply settle into being a creative force to be reckoned with.
This workshop is designed as a writing intensive for trainees who want to complete or substantially advance one or other of their writing requirements. The workshop will run from a short session Friday night 7-9 and following on 10 – dinner on Saturday and 10-4 on Sunday.
The spiritual quest, the quest for meaning, is often painted as an isolating one, which a person must do alone. When Moreno created psychodrama he created a way that we, as living breathing, strange, fateful, complicated, and isolated beings, can come together and with great intensity and great intimacy build something new in the world. Create something that has never existed since time began. Give birth to an artistic, aesthetic, profound co-creation that nourishes and feeds.
During these workshops we will work psychodramatically to untangle beliefs and habits around happiness and the happiness of those around you. The group will engage with one another at depth and investigate this important and fundamental area of life. We will all leave richer for the experience and wiser for what we have unearthed and learned.
This series will be a collaborative deep engagement and examination of freedom. What it means to you, to others, and how you and I can choose freedom and be free. We may have to kill off sentimentality, move beyond yearning, engage our courage, enter the naked areas of our hidden lives. We wont do it alone. The teaching will come from you, from me, from the group, from our relating, as we journey together. The psychodramatic method will serve us as a means to enter the realms we need, to find the spontaneity and creativity to craft new paths for our thinking, our feeling, and our actions.
This program provides group supervision for counsellors and therapists who are working in private practice, community groups or in organisations. The work of being a counsellor or a therapist is demanding, challenging and highly satisfying. At times, it is very helpful to be with others who do similar work and to reflect on and set out the different systems that develop. There will be opportunities to explore difficult and celebratory moments in one-to-one or group work; relationship issues with the client/s and themes that are problematic.
Core psychodrama training in Brisbane gets underway in 2015 on Saturday the 28th February. Participants actively develop themselves as a psychodramatist and group leader using the experiential learning method of psychodrama. The helping professions: mental health, psychotherapy, family therapy, community and organisational development, group leadership, counselling, pastoral care, allied health and other people centred professions, can immediately use elements of what is learnt in core training in their work.
This series of modules is designed for trainees who have 300 or more hours of training, who are using the method in their work and who are committed to further developing as a psychodramatist, sociometrist, role trainer or sociodramatist, and are or becoming Associate Members of AANZPA.
There is a commonly retold story that you may have heard of the Chinese expression, or curse, “May you live in interesting times”.
Apparently, the closest anyone has come to finding an actual Chinese saying that is similar to this is “Its better to be born a dog in a time of peace than born a person in a time of war” Chinese wars were nasty. Interesting times indeed! Interesting times are those where there is a clash between "I like it just the way it is" and "Where next, get me outta here". This workshop runs Friday evening through to Sunday afternoon.