Upcoming Events
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.
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.
This multi-level training group over eight weekends between March and October 2024 at the Melbourne Campus is an AANZPA accredited training program.
For new trainees at the core curriculum level and for trainees at intermediate and advanced levels of training.
Current and Past Events
5-6 February 2022
with Hilde Knottenbelt
Participants will be invited to relate to moments of pause, where we stop to notice what’s in and around us. From simple moments of experiencing, to moments that hold great complexity, we will take the time to stay with, to dis-cover and to re-cover our senses. It is an opportunity to slow down and relate to our present exchanges with kin, with strangers, with ourselves and with the living world and what matters to each of us.
Attendance at this workshop partially fulfils the application requirements for people intending to enrol in the 2022 Psychodrama Training Program at the Melbourne Campus.
With Hilde Knottenbelt
23-24 October 2021
Online workshop
with Bev Hosking and Jenny Hutt
4-5 September
More details to come
Sociometry Training Workshop (3 days)
with Chris Hosking
13-15 August
Psychodrama Training Workshop (3 days)
with Jenny Hutt and Hilde Knottenbelt
14-16 May
Over these three days, participants will be engaged experientially in spontaneity training and the practice and art of psychodrama production. It will involve play, practice, demonstrations, teaching and reflection. Pre-reading will be provided.
This multi-level training group over eight weekends in 2021 at the Melbourne
Campus is an AANZPA accredited training program.
It is for new trainees at the core curriculum level and for trainees at intermediate
and advanced levels of training. It incorporates workshops in May* and August*
which are also open to a wider group of participants.
No matter how skilful we might become at turning our attention to the present moment as facilitators,
group leaders, therapists, coaches, and co-creators, we can never capture 'presence' as an artefact,
to be stored up for later use. Presence remains a thing of the moment: ephemeral and emergent,
requiring our attention and intention, and a commitment to enter the unknown.
'Chopping wood and carrying water' refers to a willingness to repeatedly be open to what is.
It includes being open to the possibility of generating fresh experiences and
integrating them into our being and our actions in the world.
with Chris Hosking
7-8 November
Led by Hilde Knottenbelt
JL Moreno, the person who devised the psychodrama method in the years between the two world wars, is often quoted as saying “I give people the courage to dream again.” This poetic statement refers to the dynamism of the method and its capacity to enable us to be experimental, to play, to try things out in readiness for life, to engage our sensing, embodied beings and to bring vitality to our interactions with others.
14-16 August
with Chris Hosking
Unfortunately this event cannot be held in August due to the pandemic.