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
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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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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For participants in the 2025 Adelaide training group and other folk who are actively engaged with psychodrama training.
Current and Past Events
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.
Imagine how warmed up you will be by the end of this training workshop as you explore your own development within the group to aspire to new attitudes, behaviour and resolution of conflict. This will enable applications in your life and work. Integrating a new functioning of your behaviour and attitudes in daily life is a task worth undertaking and your 'creative genius' bursting into new life within you will guide you. You will learn how to warm the group up to a wide range of situations as you direct and lead during this weekend. In the Theatre of Spontaneity Jacob Moreno taught people to unfreeze their familar ways of working and freed them to act and interact on the spur of the moment.
Trainees will have adequate opportunity in this workshop to lead vignettes and dramas under supervision. As the image of the mandala implies there is a lot of colour' that can emerge when people work together with a leader who is willing to have a go; stay connected to the protagonist and is willing to experiment with a wide range of reponses to group concerns and group leadership. As in all of the workshops presented this year there will be opportunities to refresh and revise previosuly learned subject areas and skills.