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.
Interested in:
Full Year Training in Psychodrama Principles and Practice Levels 1-3, Sydney 2020 Click here
Stanwell Tops 4 day Residential, 15-19 October 2020 Click here
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
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 m
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.
This program is designed for people who are involved in theatre, art, writing, teaching and creative therapies. The process will assist in the deepening of abilities to step into the shoes of others and this will assist the work of those who are actors, artists, writers, poets, therapists, counsellors, psychotherapists, health workers, managers and educators. Supervised practice for psychodrama trainees is also an aspect of this program.
A two day experiential workshop based around the theme of “Personal and Professional Development” where participants can focus on those areas of their personal and professional development that they would like to progress.