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, 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
Perth Campus
2025 Psychodrama Training - Core Learning
Overview
Psychodrama is a general term that includes the philosophy, theory, and methods of Dr JL Moreno (1898-1974) and meets the Curriculum and Training Standards set by the Board of Examiners of Australia Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association.
Training in psychodrama, which is also referred to as action methods, is conducted in groups in which participants develop group-work leadership and the value of personal and professional development in a supportive group setting.
The psychodrama method is one that calls for expression of our self through both mind and body. It can be the means to awaken abilities and energies, to bring into our consciousness a greater sense of who we are and of the unique purpose which each of us has in being on this planet, and to assist us to make a working whole. It invites us to leave the conserved and stultified patterns by which we have imprisoned ourselves, and to enter once more into a free situation. We are invited to create through drama the situations that we have always dreamed of, and, through the release of spontaneity in role play, to develop abilities that have a practical application in life itself. AANZPA Training and Standards Manual 2020
This full-year training course covers the key aspects of the psychodrama method. The training is a commitment to your development, often enlivening, and at times facing the challenge of self-presentation, stepping forward to build reciprocal relationships and working and walking with each other. The training covers significant personal development in parallel with professional development and applications.
Training will enable integration of the theory and practice of the psychodramatic method into your professional practice. These include knowledge and skills in psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry, role training and group work. Each participant brings to the training group a wide range of prior educational and life experiences. We gain from each other as we proceed throughout the course.
Who is the Course for?
This full-year course is designed for people who work with people. This may be as counsellors, coaches, organisational consultants, team leaders, community group leaders, managers, teachers, therapists or health professionals. Psychodrama training is a post-graduate course and is open to those with/or working towards, a degree, diploma, or equivalence in a relevant field.
We welcome interested newcomers and ask you to have an initial interview with the trainer of the Campus.
The Learning Process
Training is taught through supervised experiential learning processes, supported by reading and written assignments, supervised practice in action, shared learning, and group interaction. The experiential nature and reflective practice of the training will develop your thinking, appropriate new professional-practice approaches, and expand your creative responses in personal expression and relationships.
Training Standards.
This training is designed in accordance with the Training & Standards Manual as set out by Australian & Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association Inc. (AANZPA Inc.) Board of Examiners. Training hours are accredited with Psychodrama Australia Perth Campus towards accreditation.
For further information about psychodrama and training please visit frequently asked questions (FAQs) at www.psychodramaaustralia.edu.au
Title: Expanding our psychodrama identity
Further expanding our identities as Psychodramatists through the use of the full range of Moreno’s methodology including enactments, short written reports, discussions and considering next steps in the Protagonist’s development.
In particular the use of discussions of sociometry, role enactment, and moments of heightened or lowered spontaneity will be a focus.
Alongside this we will consider our own role expansion as therapeutic guides during the production of a drama and in our reflections on what happened after a drama. Please bring pen and paper and expect to be actively involved with one another and as a group.
Sociometry - Our Relational World
J. L. Moreno developed the term Sociometry to describe a set o methods to assist iindividuals in groups to make visible the depths, strengths and range of relational connections with each other and also for the group leader to be aware of the positions of group members and the overall pattern of relating and interactions. It provides open knowledge and an understanding of what our role is in each connection, and on what basis we choose. Knowledge includes what our preferences are, what criteria we use and maybe even discover what may or may not be free in our choices. . Having this knowledge of the reality of positive, negative or neutral relationships known to all, gives a basis for choosing next steps, and although challenging at times, it encourages an openness in interactions and opens room for exploration and creative responses.
For further information contact Helen Phelan hjphelan@iinet.net.au Mob: 0407225116
Current and Past Events
WORKSHOP 2 - Role Theory and Roles of Director, Auxiliary, Group Leader
The 2024 Perth Campus Training Program
The Training Program provides for multi-level training in psychodrama, from beginners through to intermediate and advanced trainees.
The Program uncompasses 7 Training Weekends, with additional 3hr follow-up processing sessions,
Several Additional Workshops are offered including a 4-Day Intensive in October.
The Program also include visiting trainers.
Trainees are requested to enrol early and Payment for each workshop is requested to be comleted before the Workshop,
Applications for Enrolment are now open and each applicant will be required to complete an interview before confirmation of enrolment in the training program. Each Trainee will be required to have a negotiated and signed Training Agreement.
Please contact Helen Phelan: M 0407 225 116 or Kevin Franklin: M 0478 641 763, . hjphelan@iinet.net.au, kevfrank@westnet.com.au
Experiential Workshop - Psychodrama Introduction– an experiential workshop.
You are invited to an introduction to psychodrama. There will be an opportunity to experience it in action and to explore ways you can apply it. Theory questions are welcome. You can expect to tap into your creativity and enhance spontaneity and creativity in your life and work.
Open Night Psychodrama Session
Interested in psychodrama? Join us for this introductory session to experience psychodrama and learn about its basis in creativity and spontaneity.
2024 Perth Campus Training Program
The Training Program provides for multi-level training in psychodrama, from beginners through to intermediate and advanced trainees.
The Program uncompasses 7 Training Weekends, with additional 3hr follow-up processing sessions,
Several Additional Workshops are offered including a 4-Day Intensive in October.
The Program also include visiting trainers.
Trainees are requested to enrol early and an Early-Bird discount is offered for full payment by 1 March.
Applications for Enrolment are now open and each applicant will be required to complete an interview before confirmation of enrolment. Each Trainee will be required to have a negotiated and signed Training Agreement.
Please contact Helen Phelan: M 0407 225 116 or Kevin Franklin: M 0478 641 763, . hjphelan@iinet.net.au, kevfrank@westnet.com.au
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.