Adelaide

Psychodrama Australia does not have a Campus in Adelaide. However we do offer a range of workshops in Adelaide each year.

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Psychodrama Australia Adelaide
Psychodrama Australia Adelaide

Psychodrama is an applied, expressive and experiential group method focussed on J.L. Moreno’s spontaneity theory, role theory and group work. A variety of workshops will be offered in Adelaide in 2025.

Psychodrama training is relevant for people wanting to enliven themselves, their personal relationships and their professional functioning. Psychodrama method can be applied in various contexts including mental health, educational, organisational and community settings.

Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events
Feb
21

February – November 2025

Psychodrama training group (60 hours)

with Patricia O’Rourke

This series of six one and a half day training workshops will be for a closed group. Trainees will deepen their understanding of psychodrama, expand their role repertoire and capacity for spontaneity, and experience the potential of the psychodrama method.

The training will assist people interested in working with others in innovative and creative ways, with increased liveliness and from multiple perspectives.

The aim is to increase trainees’ capacity to create and maintain co-operative, authentic relationships and an enhanced sense of purpose, through learning about and participation in psychodramatic enactment and group work.

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21 Feb 2025
Saturday 22nd 9.00am to 5.00pm
48 Porter St,, Adelaide
Mar
28

March 28th – 30th, 2025

Weekend workshop

with Elizabeth Synnot and Patricia O’Rourke

This weekend workshop is for trainees and those interested in experiencing psychodrama. The focus will be Moreno’s concept of the Social and Cultural Atom as a way of mapping and making meaning in our work and our lives.

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28 Mar 2025
Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th March
411 Fullarton Road, Fullarton, Adelaide
Oct
24

For participants in the 2025 Adelaide training group and other folk who are actively engaged with psychodrama training.

24 Oct 2025
Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th October
411 Fullarton Road, Fullarton, Adelaide

Current and Past Events

Current and Past Events
Mar
12

Psychodrama Training Weekend - Group Leadership

12 Mar 2020
Actual times: March Friday 13th 7-9pm, Saturday 14th 10am-5pm, Sunday 15th 10am-5pm
17 Pennington Tce, Pennington
Nov
8

Often  when we see  a person bullying or otherwise  abusing another,  our first reaction is incredulity, shock and immobility.
In this workshop we will  use the psychodramatic method to investigate the nature of bullying and our reactions to it , with a view to becoming effective at constructively intervening where possible. Later in the workshop we will investigate in action possibilities for  cultural change in our institutions and general community.

8 Nov 2019
17 Pennington Tce, Pennington
Aug
9

Helen Kearins is a sociodramatist from Canberra ACT and her thesis addresses the questions: How can sociodrama be used to enable people to recognise and own their own racism and move beyond it and so advance the process of reconciliation between white Australians and the First Peoples? And: What can we learn about the sociodramatic method by its application in this area?

 

9 Aug 2019
9th August 6pm-9pm 10th August 9.30am-3.30pm
17 Pennington Tce, Pennington
Jul
24

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. This workshop will focus on building a culture in which relationships flourish, where we are able to live and build, where healing and purpose can be fulfilled. The training assists in developing confidence in group presentations and in the development of interpersonal and group skills. Expect some writing and reflection time in each training weekend.

24 Jul 2019
24th July 6pm-9pm 25th July 9.30am-3.30pm
17 Pennington Tce, Pennington
Jun
14

This training workshop will invite the trainee to consider the work of Virginia Satir, family therapist to explore the meaning of and the application and integration of systems theory in sociometry, organizations, role theory, family therapy and group work. The systems focus assists enormously the warm-up of the person you are with. It means that when theres a system focus that individual starts to develop a fluid warm-upthey can relate to the different elements of the system and they are affected immediately by the different elements of the system.The Living Spirit of the Psychodramatic Method (2004 Clayton and Carter p.147)

 

 

 

14 Jun 2019
June 14th 6pm-9pm 27th June 15th 9.30am-3.30pm
17 Pennington Tce, Pennington
Apr
26

Trainees ability to make assessments will be enhanced during this workshop. There will be opportunities to investigate how the psychodramatic method can assist people who are anxious and depressed to warmup creatively and spontaneously to life. Trainees will familiarise themselves with what leads to anxiety and depression? Waking up to spontaneity and creativity can help to unblock repressed emotions and create healing.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,  DSM-V, will be introduced as one resource among many  during the weekend and a YouTube The Five Main Anxiety Disorderswill be used as a warm up to introducing the topic.

 

26 Apr 2019
26th April 6pm-9pm 27th April 9.30am-3.30pm
17 Pennington Tce, Pennington
Mar
1

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.

1 Mar 2019
Friday 7.30-9.30, Saturday 9.30 – 5.00, Sunday 9.30 – 5.00
17 Pennington Tce, Pennington
Feb
15

In this first workshop we will explore and explain the Morenian stages of individual development: matrix of identity, the double, the mirror and role reversal. The associated specific psychodramatic techniques, doubling, mirroring and role reversal, will be applied.

In The Living Spirit of the Psychodramatic Method (2004) Max Clayton, who up until his death in March 2013, was a psychodramatist and trainer in Australia, and many other countries, reflects on how he develops a strong warm up to the stages of development from a psychodramatic point of view.  Re the Matrix of Identity, Max notes that at a very young age a person starts to become aware of themselves in a variety of situations. We can think of a person who has developed a strong trust in life, they start to generate an awareness of things happening around them and they become aware of their own actions and sometimes become more aware of their own experience.” (Clayton & Carter 2004 p.46)

 

 

15 Feb 2019
15th Feb 6pm-9pm 16th Feb 9.30am-3.30pm
17 Pennington Tce, Pennington
Feb
14

Review and define the 5 basic elements of psychodrama (director, auxiliaries, audience, stage; protagonist). This training session involves supervised practice, working in the here-and-now of the group and developing the capacity to enter into the worlds of others experientially.

 

14 Feb 2019
14th Feb 6pm-9pm 15th Feb 9.30am-3.30pm
17 Pennington Tce, Pennington
Nov
9

Attitudes, Values and Concerns - Sociodrama - Navigating Multiple Relationships.
Boundaries, professional ethics, sex, money, conflicts of interest, dual relationships. In traditional societies these complicated matters are closely codified and norms taught and enforced. We live in a society where the traditional protocols between individuals no longer apply and are not passed on, even where there is token acceptance. This often bewildering and painful maze demands sophisticated abilities to negotiate.
Participating in this workshop will alert participants to potential conflicts of interest in their own world and in that of those around them. Action investigation and role-reversal, and perhaps some healing, will feature as we seek to develop more adequacy in navigating these cross currents.

9 Nov 2018
November 9-11 Friday 7pm-9pm; Saturday, Sunday 9.30am – 5.30pm.
17 Pennington Terrace, Pennington