"Psychodrama is an applied, expressive and experiential group method based on J.L. Moreno's spontaneity theory, role theory and groupwork."
There are 3 ways you can get involved with psychodrama at Sydney Campus.
We suggest starting with Open Nights (no experience required), then Experiential Workshops (no experience required), and then Psychodrama Training Workshops (min of 12 hours experience of psychodrama and interview required).
Registration is required for all events.
2027 Psychodrama Calendar in Sydney
REGISTRATIONS ARE NOT YET OPEN - Dates are confirmed, details to come.
6 Open Nights - FREE
Thurs 4 February, Fri 5 March, Thurs 13 May, Fri 9 July, Thurs 16 Sept and Fri 12 November.
Experiential Psychodrama Workshops
- Sat 10 & Sun 11 April (2 days) with Rollo Browne
- Sat 5 & Sun 6 June (2 days) with Dr Charmaine McVea
- Sat 14 & Sun 15 August (2 days) with Nikki McCoy
Experiential workshops do not attract training hours
Psychodrama Training Workshops
- Sat 6 & Sun 7 March, (2 days) The Essence of the Psychodrama Method
- Fri 14, Sat 15 & Sun 16 May (3 days) The Social & Cultural Atom and its Repair
- Sat 10 & Sun 11 July (2 days) tbc
- Fri 17, Sat 18 & Sun 19 September (3 days) Focal Conflict and Psychodrama Groupwork
- Sat 13 & 14 November (2 days) Spontaneity: Novelty, Creativity and Adequacy
These workshops do attract training hours
For 2027 enquiries contact Rollo Browne (0417 682 085) or Bona Anna (0451 046 928).
Upcoming Events
The best way to understand the power of psychodrama is to experience it.
These evenings are designed to give you an opportunity to experience psychodrama in a safe and gentle environment. Each session will be directed by an experienced psychodramatist with time available for questions about the method and its applications.
The self is what a person is, and role is what a person does. Moreno saw the self as a mystery that could best be approached through role, its tangible forms. Hence his theory of personality is based on roles and role structures. Moreno was clear that the self emerges from roles (1972:iii) and that, before there can be an experience of a sense of 'me' and 'I', the precursor and partial roles strive to cluster and become unified. The recognition of 'me' as a separate being indicates that there is sufficient unification to support a sense of self.
Current and Past Events
Psychodrama Training Weekend Workshop. Canberra 19-21 November
In this training workshop, the content will be based on participants’ interests, concerns and purposes. The focus will be on experiential sessions applied to daily life including work, play and relationships, with a view to increasing the capacity to rise creatively to life’s challenges. The experiential, systemic, action process known as the psychodrama method is also learnt in the process. Trainees will have the opportunity to direct under supervision.
This program focuses on the application of social systems theory, role theory and sociometry as a holistic approach to the assessment of group functioning and as a guide to practitioner decision-making. You will hone your ability to perceive a group’s functioning through these lenses, to identify what development would be helpful in progressing the aims of the group and what interventions are likely to facilitate that development.
This 2 day program is for people wanting to experience psychodrama and also develop their functioning in their personal or professional lives.
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Psychodramatic role theory provides a framework for understanding human functioning in a holistic and non-judgemental way. The individual is seen in the context of their life and relationships, taking into consideration developmental experiences that impact on their current orientation to the world. Attention is given to cognitive, feeling and action elements of human functioning, to the person’s capacity to warm-up in a way that promotes vitality, and to their ability to relate to the emerging moment.
This program focuses on the application of role theory as a holistic approach to assessment and as a guide to clinical decision-making.
Psychodrama Training Weekend - Sociometry
This weekend training will focus on the measurement and development ofrelationships and patterns of relationships as individuals choose to connect withy others on various criteria.
The psychodrama method assists participants to increase their spontaneity and creativity through active participation. This participation includes group work, enactment and theoretical mini lectures. The program will assist in developing leadership and will lead to increasing abilities in relating to others.
This year long training program covers the core knowledge, skills and personal development that underpin the practice of Morenian methods (psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry and role training). It equips participants to integrate psychodramatic processes into their professional practice, bringing greater vitality, depth and immediacy to their work.
The course is designed for you to bring Morenian experiential methods into your thinking and practice. You will have the opportunity to experience psychodrama, broaden your production capabilities, develop greater flexibility in your group work and deepen your therapeutic and systems interventions. You will master the basic techniques, understand warm up, see and feel the effect of increased spontaneity in yourself and others. Imagine if you could bring this spontaneity into your work! The purpose is to apply your learning in your work and life, to be more effective in your work and have more satisfying interactions.
Psychodrama focuses on reclaiming your innate spontaneity – ‘a readiness for a free and vital response to the emerging moment’ (Phil Carter). Spontaneity infuses daily life with potency and flexibility, so that you create more satisfying relationships and find the value in what is here and now.
In this 2-day workshop, we will use psychodrama to bring greater spontaneity to the issues that matter to you. There will be a focus on sustaining a warm-up to areas of life that are fulfilling and generative, working through habitual patterns that no longer serve you, and realigning thoughts, feelings and actions to bring a fuller expression of yourself in your life.
Friday 26th June (evening) to Sunday 28th June 2020.
With Hilde Knottenbelt & Charmaine McVea
The shift in context facing each one of us as we live with the impacts of COVID 19 has meant that many of us have had to reimagine aspects of our lives and futures. In the midst of this disruption and loosening to some of our patterned ways of living, there is a possibility to reconfigure, reassess and to dream again.
Using the psychodrama method and arts making processes, this workshop offers an in-between space where the stories we tell ourselves about who we are can be paused and perhaps reimagined. It offers a liminal space where the experiencing being can stay with what is, as part of engaging in a creative process.
This year long training program covers the core knowledge, skills and personal development that underpin psychodrama practice . It equips participants to integrate psychodramatic processes into their professional practice, bringing greater vitality, depth and immediacy to their work. You will have the opportunity to experience psychodrama, broaden your production capabilities, develop greater flexibility in group work and deepen therapeutic or systems interventions. The purpose is to apply your learning in your work and life, to be more effective in your work and have more satisfying interactions.
Experiential Psychodrama Workshop, Saturday & Sunday, 9.30-4.30pm
Making a communityCommunity can be looked at from many points of view.In this training workshop we will focus on roles that are required to assist in creating and developing a community.Self-presentation, understanding our attractions to and rejections of others, increasing the flexibility of our responses to situations, and working with differences of opinion will be investigated in action and discussion.Participants will be encouraged to practice leadership, take initiative and to be active group members.Finally we will draw conclusions about the essentials of a community from our experiences in the workshop.Leaders: Annette Fisher, Richard Hall
Psychodrama is a relational method.Dr JL Moreno the founder of psychodrama provides us with concepts and methods that enable us to recognise and articulate and apply elements and processes which constitute a relationship and enable us to participate to our mutual benefit. In this workshop participants will be able to investigate in detail what is involved in a healthy constructive relationship. Capacity to apply and practise these insights will be an integral part of the workshop.
Many of us are committed to an on-going process of learning throughout our lives. We each have many experiences which assists us to develop. How we learn, explore and process those experiences can assist us or hinder us in learning. A person can be an open learner, a most helpful style to integrate and process experiences and communication. Other styles of learning include being a dependent learner, an anxious learner or a fighting learner.
In this workshop we will consider and explore the many learning styles to assist us when working with a variety of people, as well as in our own evolution. It will assist us to be alert to the particular personality and role systems a person enacts and how that person explores and learns from a particular experience. It will also assist us as to integrate roles we enact in response to anothers efforts to learn.
This workshop is an opportunity to focus on areas of your own development that will assist you to be more engaged and effective in your professional and personal life. Using classical psychodrama we will work with the interests and concerns of group members. The intention is to bring your actions and relationships more in line with who you are and what is important to you, so that you live life with greater vitality.
Participating in this workshop meets the experiential hours requirement for entering a training group in 2019.