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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)
Upcoming Events
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.
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.
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.
Spontaneity Training Weekend Workshop 11-13 June
This workshop will focus on developing participants’ spontaneity through play.
Life presents each of us with many challenges. The capacity to respond in the moment with a new response to an old situation or an adequate response in a new situation requires spontaneity. There are many forms of spontaneity which group leaders and members of a group require to be effective.
Psychodrama Training Weeekend Workshop. Canberra
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 oppportunity to direct under supervision.
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 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 Workshop. Canberra
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 wil have the opportunity to direct under supervision.
Current and Past Events
This workshop is designed for advanced trainees who are committed to continuing their training in the psychodramatic method. The process will be structured around group work and protagonist centred dramas in a collegial environment. The aim of the workshop is the development of progressive roles, including social atom repair to address ‘road blocks’, that will assist you to move towards the completion phase of training.
Recently it has been widely recognised that success in counselling and therapy is hugely dependent on the quality of the relationship between the practitioner and the client. Hope and skill are also important in this and any professional work.
This weekend will draw out the characteristics of a relationship which assists others to develop. Participants can expect to develop these abilities further themselves.
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 action method 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.
These workshop will focus on building a culture in which relationships flourish, where we are able to live and work. In which healing and purpose can be fulfilled. Passion and kindness go hand in hand along with a vision of creative living. Learning to reflect on ones behaviour and others will assist in making interventions. Learning to embrace conflict and problem solving, rather than avoiding concerns that arise, will strengthen relationships and assist in the development of a positive group culture. Leadership abilities and the application of the psychodramatic method will be a focus.
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.