Perth Campus
The Perth Campus aims to provide a range of opportunities for experiential learning applying Psychodrama, also referred to as action methods. This collectively includes group leadership, psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry and role training that facilitate on-going, progressive and creative functioning in everyday life, work and community situations.
Psychodrama is a general term that includes the philosophy, theory, and methods developed by Dr JL Moreno (1898-1974) and since then by the Australian Aotearoa and New Zealand Psychodrama Association Inc (AANZPA) and many organisations and countries throughout the world.
Psychodrama is conducted in groups and has wide application in education, organisational development, community development, health and social justice. This professional development is for anyone who works with others as counsellors, coaches, organisational consultants, team leaders, community service providers, managers, teachers, health professionals, or who are working with individuals or groups in any field.
As well as the full-year Training Program (view Here), workshops for Introduction to Psychodrama and Professional development using Moreno's action methods will be offered from time to time. These will provide Registraion information on this website and are open to those new to psychodrama and any professional people intered in developing more creative reponses to life.s circumstances and more satisfying relationships.
For interest in the Training program, please contact Kevin Franklin kevfrank@westnet.com.au or Helen Phelan hjphelan@iinet.net.au and see information below.
The AANZPA site AANZPA.org has information on the annual conference held in January each year in various cities in Australia and New Zealand.
Upcoming Events
Current and Past Events
You are invited to our last workshop for the Year.
TRAINING WORKSHOP – INTEGRATION AND SUSTAINING THE CREATOR
This session provides an opportunity to review and integrate learning of the many dimensions of psychodrama experienced throughout the year.
Role development requires congruence of feeling, thinking and action, with spontaneity, creativity and expression in the moment.
We will work together to develop strategies to ‘stand by’ the new and emerging roles and to keep our creativity warmed up to remain fully alive as we transition from training for the year.
Anyone new or less familiar with psychodrama will gain insight into the theory and practical application of psychodrama, as we reflect on and enact moments of challenge and learning, of delight and healing.
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Explore psychodrama and experience more creative responses in your life and work!
Hello - You are invited to explore the action and creativity of psychodrama.Open to trainees and those new to psychodrama to experience the method and to explore possibilities of application in many professional and life situations
Psychodrama is an active and enlivening method which aims to increase spontaneity, strengthen relationships and build community.
Curious? The best way to find out is to experience it - come and join us. New-comers are most welcome.
If you're a professional educator, manager, HR / organisational change agent, counsellor, teacher, facilitator, psychotherapist, social worker, trainer, or related creative arts, you will find this workshop of benefit.
Experience a taster in Psychodrama, conducted by experienced group practitioners. Please feel free to forward the invitation to others who may be interested
Topics emerging from the group can be explored.
In this weekend workshop psychodrama trainees can expect to have an experience of sociodrama, one of the specialties of psychodrama. The purpose of sociodrama is to bring about effective inter group and intra group functioning. Elizabeth, who is leading this weekend, has most of her experience in conducting sociodramas in large public sector organisations; the Audit Office, Universities, Treasury, Health Department, Police, Education, Agriculture and Fisheries, etc. She has also used sociodrama in some private sector organisations and in the community sector, particularly in disability services, ‘What must I develop to thrive in a world where some people think I’d be better off dead?’
Saturday and Sunday - 22nd & 23 July 2023
You are invited: -
At its heart, psychodrama is a vehicle for the imagination, liberating us from the isolation of fact, repetition, and self-reliance. On the psychodrama stage our relationship with our self, and with others can be revised and enriched so we may feel connected to the universe again. Entering into our own and each other’s worlds as protagonists and auxiliaries with a spirit of play, experimentation and generosity we will use the truth and magic of the psychodramatic method to embolden hope, restore dignity, and ignite spontaneity.
In this experiential weekend workshop we can apply the philosophic, psychological and dramatic theory and praxis of psychodrama and simply enjoy all that this method affords. You can revisit, reimagine, and reinvigorate your past, your present and your future.
Explore psychodrama and experience more creative responses in your life and work!
Hello - You are invited to explore the action and creativity of psychodrama.
Psychodrama is an active and enlivening method which aims to increase spontaneity, strengthen relationships and build community.
Curious? The best way to find out is to experience it - come and join us. New-comers are most welcome.
If you're a professional educator, manager, HR / organisational change agent, counsellor, teacher, facilitator, psychotherapist, social worker, trainer, or related creative arts, you will find this workshop of benefit.
Experience a taster in Psychodrama, conducted by experienced group practitioners. Please feel free to forward the invitation to others who may be interested
Topics emerging from the group can be explored.
We will also be running Experiential Workshops through the year and you may be eligible to join the Training Course.
Tea/coffee and snacks provided.
Intrigued? Leadership of yourself?
In exploring ways we can engage with others in our world, there is a huge challenge. There is you with your world view and there is the other with their world view – how do we develop a progressive, inclusive and mutually respectful relationship.
Leadership of ourselves requires care, patience, and flexibility - and this workshop we will work together in an encouraging environment, to bring forth our creativity to back ourselves and enhance our capacity to be with Other.
Psychodrama is an active and enlivening method which aims to increase spontaneity, strengthen relationships and build community.
Explore psychodrama and experience more creative responses to your life and work!
Psychodrama is an active and enlivening method which aims to increase spontaneity, strengthen relationships and build community.
Curious about psychodrama? The best way to find out is to experience it - come and join us.
Spontaneity is a foundation concept of the psychodrama method. It involves the ability to respond to people and situations in a lively, authentic and thoughtful way. It involves letting go of the old and moving into new ways of being. Spontaneity flourishes in an atmosphere of experimentation and playfulness, and enables us to bring forward our creative abilities, and to move into the unknown with courage and confidence
Psychodrama is applicable in workplaces, education, coaching, community, therapeutic and personal situations, and contributes to both personal and professional development. If you're a professional educator, manager, HR / organisational change agent, counsellor, teacher, facilitator, psychotherapist, social worker, trainer, or related creative arts, you will find this workshop of benefit.
In the workplace and in life we are often confronted with unexpected things that seem difficult to handle. These can be inner journeys or journeys in the world. Sometimes we react with concern and doubts, sometimes with creativity and courage.
At times the adventurer may take you to new, enriching dimensions – sometimes the adventurer may over-reach and lead you to risks beyond bounds. Finding the adventurer that most adequately supports your life and work can be a challenge.
You are invited to share and explore together, through action learning, how we can expand the adventurer within us to be available and accessible at the times we need it, as well as uncover some of the factors that push us and pull us in those moments
Psychodrama is an active and enlivening method which aims to increase spontaneity, strengthen relationships and build community.
Curious about psychodrama? The best way to find out is to experience it - come and join us.
Moreno recognised that we are not only in relationship with one another; we are at the same time influencing and influenced by, the wider cultural and community systems that we are part of. We live and work in a variety of systems, from family systems, organisational systems, community, national and international systems.
We know the systems in our world through our own world view and perspectives. What you see, and what sense you make of the system, influences the decisions for interventions and engagement.
You are invited to explore the systems in which we work and live through action methods that can develop new perspectives, uncover hidden dynamics and shine a light on the influencing forces and the choice points of tapping into the hope in the system.
For new participants, who are not yet formal Trainees, please contact us for a pre-workshop interview.
Moreno proposed that in each of us is a Creative Genius for our own lives and relationships.
We invite you to awaken to your Creative Genius through spontaneity and playful exploration.
This workshop provides opportunities to become more awake to creative aspects of yourself, to rely on your capacity for new, creative solutions and to trust the process and the exploration pathways open to you.
With the support of the group, we will work together to encourage a new potency in your role of Creative Genius.