Upcoming 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 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 September workshop 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.
Current and Past Events
with Giovanni Fusetti
Saturday and Sunday 22-23 February
Early bird fee $415 closes 13 January!
Through the body we can arrive at what we think and feel. And through character and clown, rooted as they are in the body, we can access an infinite source of discovery and insight into the human condition.
with Hilde Knottenbelt
Saturday and Sunday 1-2 February 10am- 5pm
For people who wish to experience psychodrama for the first time, to reacquaint themselves with this way of working and those who are interested in participating in the 2020 training program
Early Bird by 1 Oct $325!
Led by Hilde Knottenbelt
Saturday and Sunday
26-27 October
For people who wish to experience psychodrama for the first time, to reacquaint themselves with this way of working and those who are interested in participating in the 2020 training program
Sociodrama Workshop in Melbourne
24-25 August 2019
Led by Bev Hosking and Jenny Hutt
Early bird closes 26 July
The Dynamic Nature of the Individual and the Group: a Psychodramatic Perspective
Three-day psychodrama training workshop in Melbourne
led by Chris Hosking
Early bird closes 21 June
This three day training workshop in Melbourne will be most relevant to those who have a keen
interest in the psychodrama method, body psychotherapies, drama therapies. Psychodrama has
at its core a deep interest in the movement of the human body - what it teaches us and
how it can guide us in an exploration of the human psyche.
This multi-level training group over eight weekends in 2019 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.
Early bird enrolments by 18 January
This workshop uses the psychodrama method to develop the art of slowing down in the company of others.
Participants can expect to generate a range of experiences of the psychodrama method
and to become familiar with the training approach taken at Melbourne Campus.
Led by Hilde Knottenbelt
1-2 February 2020
For people who wish to experience psychodrama for the first time, to reacquaint themselves with this way of working and those who are interested in the 2020 training program
More details on the theme soon
Led by Richard Hall
The purpose is to further the development of identity as group leaders, counsellors and individual practitioners, and to develop expertise in leadership and clinical application in groups and one to one settings.