This workshop series is designed for anyone who is willing to take the time, and has the time, to focus on what is important to them. The workshop theme of exploration relates to the capacity of the psychodrama method to uncover important elements in a person’s life, areas that may be in a person's blind-spot or out of awareness, and fully take these into account. The exploration may include feelings, intentions, creativity, vision, and purpose. The exploration will take place behind the barriers, the worries and fears, and off the beaten track.
Psychodrama is a group method which focuses on the development of creativity within group participants so that an individual's creativity gets going and produces new results for old problems or produce whole new outlooks of life. Some people come along simply in order to feel creative again in their own life.
In this workshop series you and your fellow participants will spend time stimulating your imagination, and spontaneity, with regards creating significant positive developments in your lives. In the collaborative secure and confidential setting you will have time to develop your capacity to work on the areas of your life that are crying out for change, exploration or attention. If you have been part of the workshops series then during these sessions you will be actively developing your dreams for yourself and your life with artistry, imagination and love.
If you are considering coming along please let me know as soon as possible. If you would like to contact me please use either my phone number or email on this website.
Dates:October 11, 18, 25, November 1, 5 (Saturday), 8, 15, 22, Tuesdays
Times: Tuesday 6.30 - 9.30, Saturday 13th 10.00 - 5.00
Venue: 45 Clarence St, Coorparoo, Brisbane
Fee: $385 (Discounts for unwaged folks, AANZPA members, and Mens Wellbieng)
Group Leader: Peter Howie
Peter is the Executive Director of Psychodrama Australia as well as the Director of Training for the Brisbane Campus. He has been developing and running deep learning experiential psychodrama training groups since 1993. He qualified as a psychodrama practitioner in 1999 and as a psychodrama trainer in 2006. He completed his Master of Education in 2011 and is currently a PhD candidate at Griffith University researching psychodrama. Peter operates from a conviction in the capacity of each human being to develop the flexibility and spontaneity to make a significant contribution to their own and other’s lives, irrespective of where they have come from, and current circumstances. He believes that all human life is relational, that we live as part of complex systems, and that working in groups opens up enormous possibilities that would otherwise not occur.
Psychodrama Programs
The programs run though Psychodrama Australia Brisbane campus are run by practitioners accredited through the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association Inc (AANZPA). For further details either click on the logo below or go to their website at www.aanzpa.org. If you have further questions about psychodrama or psychodrama training you could 1) Send us a general enquiry or question through our email by clicking here; 2) Browse our Frequently Asked Questions 3) or contact Peter directly on 0411 873 851.
What is meant by acting?
When folks read about psychodrama including drama, which may include ‘acting’, they often become worried: “But I am no actor”. Well, may I ask you if you act like a son when you are with your mother? Do you act like a person in an elevator when in the elevator? Do you act like a dad when with your children? Certainly there are elements of acting in all these situations, but they also come to us easily, we are well trained. The acting we do in psychodrama is not the acting of the stage, it is the acting of daily life, where we often don’t have a clue, but proceed anyway. Where we feel lost but outwardly seem confident. Where we drive like a formula one driver, listen to music like a fan, where we curse loudly and long about the many and various fully justified complaints we may have of our politicians, bosses, friends, family or lovers. The acting of psychodrama is actually acting as ourselves.