Upcoming Events
with Hilde Knottenbelt
This two-day workshop will involve active, experiential learning using the psychodrama method.
This workshop is for people interested in experiencing the psychodrama method and for people wishing to discover its relevance for their professional and clinical work with individuals and groups. It is highly recommended for people wishing to enrol in the 2025 Training Group.
This multi-level training group over eight weekends between early March and early November 2025 at the Melbourne Campus is an AANZPA accredited training program. It includes a workshop in October which is open to a wider group of trainees.
For new trainees at the core curriculum level and for trainees at intermediate and advanced levels of training.
with Hilde Knottenbelt and Martin Putt
Martin Putt
Martin is a Psychodramatist & Trainer Educator Practitioner-in-training (TEPit) on the staff of Psychodrama Aotearoa New Zealand Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He is a registered psychotherapist working in private practice with a wide range of clients, mostly boys and men. He has served as Secretary and is the immediate past-President of AANZPA. Before becoming a psychotherapist, Martin's background included working as an actor in a touring theatre-in-education company, theatre improvisation, especially Playback Theatre, and working with young people in both a community youth centre and as a children's hospital play-specialist. He is a proud graduate of the John Bolton Theatre School in Melbourne and he values the playfulness, soulfulness and creativity of psychodrama in groups, in individual sessions, and in training.
Hilde Knottenbelt
Hilde is a Psychodramatist and Trainer, Educator, Practitioner (TEP). She is the Executive Director of Psychodrama Australia, and the training group coordinator at Psychodrama Australia’s Melbourne Campus, where she has been a trainer since 2000. She has over 40 years' experience as a teacher, trainer and educator in experiential learning, including in the creative arts. She works in private practice as a counsellor, supervisor and voice coach and teaches vocal improvisation and storytelling in groups in the community. Hilde first worked with Martin when they were performers in Melbourne’s Living Stories Playback Theatre Company.
Detailed workshop description coming soon.
with Chris Hosking
For participants in the 2025 Training Group and trainees from Melbourne and beyond who are actively engaged with psychodrama training.
with Hilde Knottenbelt
When we slow down sufficiently to open out the momentary events that make up our experience, we can be present to the emerging life in ourselves and others. Aspects of these moments can be amplified, the unsaid spoken, the barely conscious brought into awareness. New perspectives can be generated.
Current and Past Events
with Hilde Knottenbelt
This two-day workshop will involve active, experiential learning using the psychodrama method.
It is for people interested in experiencing the psychodrama method and for people wishing to discover its relevance for their professional and clinical work with individuals and groups. It is highly recommended for people wishing to enrol in the 2025 Training Group.
with Chris Hosking
For the 2024 Training group and others engaged in psychodrama training in Australia and overseas.
During these 3 days we will focus on the classical form of a psychodrama which includes a group warm up, selection of a protagonist, an interview, an enactment and then sharing or a period of integration. We will practise the application of psychodramatic techniques to explore and investigate the world of the protagonist and what might assist in the development of spontaneity in the protagonist.
with Hilde Knottenbelt and Charmaine McVea
This training event is for core, intermediate and advanced trainees engaged in psychodrama training in Australia and overseas.
This multi-level training group over eight weekends between March and October 2024 at the Melbourne Campus is an AANZPA accredited training program. It includes the September workshop listed below which is open to a wider group of trainees.
For new trainees at the core curriculum level and for trainees at intermediate and advanced levels of training.
with Hilde Knottenbelt
This two-day workshop will involve active, experiential learning using the psychodrama method.
It is for people interested in experiencing the psychodrama method and for people wishing to discover its relevance for their professional and clinical work with individuals and groups. It is highly recommended for people wishing to enrol in the 2024 Training Group.
with Hilde Knottenbelt and Jan Allen
This two day experiential workshop brings psychodrama, sociometry and arts making processes to the work of building engaged groups where creativity can flourish.
Saturday and Sunday 14-15 October 2023
led by Hilde Knottenbelt
When we slow down sufficiently to open out the momentary events that make up our experience, we can be present to the emerging life in ourselves and others.
Friday 8 - Sunday 10 September
Led by Chris Hosking
In this workshop there will be an interest in psychodrama as a form of living theatre.
For 2023 training group members, and trainees from Australia and overseas connected with the Melbourne Campus.
This workshop fee is covered by the 2023 Training Group fee.
Thursday 25 May - Sunday 28 May 2023
Led by Chris Hosking, Hilde Knottenbelt and Jenny Hutt
Chestnut Hill Conference Centre Kallista Vic 3791
Eight weekends between March and October 2023.
Multi-level training group is an AANZPA accredited training program.
For new trainees at the core curriculum level and for trainees at intermediate
and advanced levels of training.