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
In this workshop we will explore the breadth of the psychodrama method. We will delve into specific interventions that each have their own task and value in expanding a system and expression. Our work in psychodrama is to counteract the forces that press upon us getting us to narrow down and defy our need for expansion and play.
Trainer: Chris Hosking
This workshop will be led by Chris Hosking, a Psychodramatist and Trainer, Educator and Practitioner on the teaching staff of Psychodrama Australia. Chris has conducted training workshops and seminars in psychodrama, sociometry, role training and group work for 28+ years and has been actively involved in supervision of trainees in Australia and New Zealand, Japan, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Europe.
This training workshop is for trainees and those interested in experiencing and learning more about psychodrama. It is highly recommended for those wishing to enter the ongoing psychodrama training group in Adelaide in 2026. This workshop will be limited to 12 participants.
When
Saturday 25 October 9.30am - 6pm
Sunday 26 October 9.30am - 4pm
Where:
Parkview Room
Fullarton Park Community Centre
411 Fullarton Road, Fullarton
Adelaide SA 5063
Fee
$460.00
Current and Past Events
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.
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.
This workshop will primarily be a group experience for participants and trainees to continue to develop confidence in leading a group and taking leadership in a variety of ways. The fire image above inspires us to create and ignite sparks of creativity in leading a group and taking leadership.
This training weekend will focus on spontaneity training and role theory as energetic and vigorous ways to learn about personality and to make personality assessments.
The training workshop will focus on encounter as a way to meet the challenges of conflict, difference and changes in tele between one another from moment to moment.
Our social atom changes over time. This weekend will explore questions of meaning such as whom do I choose in my personal network of trusted companions to ‘remain on the front foot’? Diana Jones Leadership Material; How Personal Expereince shapes Executive Presence (2017)
What do I want to change, expand, let go to develop a strong sense of belonging in the world, sense of identity and spiritual wellbeing?
Integrating imagination and intuition
- Increasing our own capacity to move between fantasy and reality in our work and life.
The imagination is a rich source of insight and inspiration passing through the awareness of each human at all times.
Psychodrama (the play of the soul) enables us to have fun and create meaning as we play with the images that arise spontaneously or through guided fantasy (book or movie or relaxation activity).
It also assists us to integrate these constructively in our daily life and work.
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. 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.
In this first training weekend we will use group work, dramas, vignettes self-presentation and reflection to explore how our lives are influenced by anxiety and fear and what steps we can take to integrate our roles to create a freedom to act.
The Healing is in the Relationship
Recently it has been widely recognised that success in counselling and therapy are 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 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.
7pm Friday 10th - 5pm Sunday 12th November 2017
In 2016 our training group together with others focussed on building a culture in which relationships flourish, where we are able to live and work. Passion and kindness go hand in hand along with a vision of creative living.Continuing this theme in 2017 we will learn to reflect on ways to create a new vital culture in the world. The apllication of the psychodramatic method will be our main focus.