SPONTANEITY
'propels an individual to a new response to an old situation or an adequate response to a new situation'. (J.L. Moreno, founder of Psychodrama)
In response to the COVID-19 health challenge confronting our community, the Sydney-Canberra Campus is not conducting workshops on-site at this time. This has meant that some workshops and all open nights have been postponed.
Alternative arrangements are being made with trainees in the ongoing training program, and supervision remains available online or by phone.
We are in the creative process of developing some of our workshops to be offered in interactive-online forums. Information about these workshops will be available on this web-site as they are developed.
Check in on this site from time to time to see what is emerging. And if you want to be kept up to date with developments, subscribe for news by leaving your email details and selecting 'Sydney-Canberra Campus', in the box above.
All our good wishes to you, your families and communities.
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Full Year Training in Psychodrama Principles and Practice Levels 1-3, Sydney 2020 Click here
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Free Open Nights: Monthly in Sydney - ALL OPEN NIGHTS POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
Upcoming Events
Psychodrama Training Weekend - Group Leadership
An online version of this workshop will be anounced in the near future.
This 2 day program is for people wanting to experience psychodrama and also develop their functioning in their personal or professional lives.
Click 'View Event' and register your interest, and we will keep you informed when it is clear if it can run in September as advertised, or will be rescheduled to a later date.
The best way to understand the power of psychodrama is to experience it. These evenings are designed to give participants an opportunity to experience psychodrama in a safe and gentle environment. They are run by experienced and qualified professionals trained in the psychodramatic method, and group work, with time available for questions about the method and its applications
Shine Like The Sun:
Recognising Role Conflict, Embracing Role Integration and Valuing Role Development
It requires, for most of us, courage and trust in our spontaneity to lead a group or direct a psychodrama. As Max Clayton (1992:1) notes, in these moments we are negotiating two powerful forces that exist in an uneasy and dynamic relationship:
‘an inner urge to grow, to live fully in the moment, to experience purpose and meaning, to create ideals and live by them, and a contradictory desire for safety, the avoidance of the unknown and of appearing odd or different, the fear of letting go outdated roles and developing progressive roles’.
The aim of this residential workshop is that you, as trainee directors and group leaders, will increasingly live in the progressive roles that you have developed to date, that you will recognise role conflict, embrace role integration and value role development, that you will, in Pink Floyd’s words, ‘shine like the sun’ (Shine On You Crazy Diamond, 1975).
Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
And you will know that, in psychodrama, as in life, being young is a matter of spontaneity flow...
Psychodrama Training Weekend - Group Work and Systems Theory
The best way to understand the power of psychodrama is to experience it and these evenings are designed to give participants 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 best way to understand the power of psychodrama is to experience it and these evenings are designed to give participants 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.
Current and Past Events
This is the second workshop on Leadership and Entrepreneurship.
Agility is essential in our world of ‘pop up businesses’ and constant changing landscape. Successful entrepreneurs have the ability to lead in a positive direction by proper planning, by adapting to changing environments and having the wisdom to understand their own strengths and weakness.
This workshop will focus on identifying strengths and weaknesses, creative planning and releasing fears related to blocking creativity, and which then leads to success.
Agility is essential in our world of ‘pop up businesses’ and constant changing landscape. Successful entrepreneurs have the ability to lead in a positive direction by proper planning, by adapting to changing environments and having the wisdom to understand their own strengths and weakness.
This workshop will focus on identifying strengths and weaknesses, creative planning and releasing fears related to blocking creativity, and which then leads to success.
The follow up workshop, Leadership and Entrepreneurship 2, will be run on 5 & 6 November.
Starting from the moment of conception to the present there are many transitions. Early in the workshop participants will be asked to draw up a timeline mapping significant and challenging moments in their life. Participants will be encourage to develop abilities, through their own creativity and spontaneity, to respond to old situations in fresh creative ways. This will lead to the enhancement of interpersonal skills, both in professional and personal life and increase insiughts into human development.
This program will assist participants to tap into their own individual creative expression.
Suzanne Moss is a visiting trainer with a doctorate in Visual Arts, is accredited in the Journey Method of coaching and is a tertiary Visual Arts educator and private teacher of Meditative Art combining mediative arts processes, coaching and visual art skill teaching in her workshops.
Annette Fisher will direct the group at times to highlight group themes psychodramatically.
The focus of this workshop is for participants to develop abilities in themselves and in teaching others - to be loving companions to assist each other to live out their life purpose and vision.
Psychodrama examines the individual's relationship with relevant others. It also takes into consideration the nature of the 'role relationship' that takes place within therelationship - these ares are called the 'social and cultural atom'. Through the process of enactment and group process the protagonist and group members will develop abilities to 'place themselves in another's shoes', role reverse and to make conscious choices about how and when to relate to others.
This 2 day program is for people wanting to experience psychodrama and also develop their functioning in their personal or professional lives. Psychodrama is an action method that powerfully explores the issues that matter to you. Sometimes known as the theatre of truth, psychodrama focuses on reclaiming your innate spontaneity and applying it to situations where it is needed. This workshop is a great way to find out if psychodrama is for you.
This is the fifth and final workshop in the program: Psychodrama - Personal and Professional Development, held in Canberra.
The Psychodramatic 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. The training assists is developing confidence in group presentations and in the development of interpersonal and group skills.
Curious about psychodrama and what makes it work? Thinking about whether it is for you?
This program is the perfect place to start.
The best way to understand the power of psychodrama is to experience it. These evenings are designed to give participants an opportunity to experience psychodrama in a safe and gentle environment. They are run by experienced and qualified professionals trained in the psychodramatic method, and group work, with time available for questions about the method and its applications.
The best way to understand the power of psychodrama is to experience it. These evenings are designed to give participants an opportunity to experience psychodrama in a safe and gentle environment. They are run by experienced and qualified professionals trained in the psychodramatic method, and group work, with time available for questions about the method and its applications