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
This training workshop offers an experience of how the psychodrama method assists people to awaken and strengthen their capacities for living creatively.
Wednesday 25 June 2014 6.30-9.30pm
This experiential workshop introduces participants to the psychodrama method. It involves group activities and opportunities to experience and reflect on dramatic enactments. There will be some introductory teaching and mention of the application of psychodrama in a range of professional settings.
This training workshop provides opportunities to experience how the psychodrama method assists people to awaken and strengthen their capacities for living creatively.
A workshop designed for advanced trainees who wish to sharpen their awareness of and enlarge their ability to respond to the sociometric networks in a group. It is for advanced trainees from Melbourne and interstate.
A training group run over eight weekends between March-November which teaches the theory and practice essential to the psychodrama method, including sociometry, production techniques, role theory and group work. The group is conducted by Hilde Knottenbelt and Richard Hall.
A training group run over eight weekends (two of them 3 day workshops) between March and November. This group builds on the training completed in the Core Curriculum–Intermediate years, or the equivalent. It involves teaching and supervised practice with in-depth attention to all the elements of the method. The training is conducted by Jenny Hutt and Chris Hosking.
An experiential workshop introducing participants to the psychodrama method.