Upcoming Events
with Hilde Knottenbelt
This two-day workshop will involve active, experiential learning using the psychodrama method.
This workshop is for people interested in experiencing the psychodrama method and for people wishing to discover its relevance for their professional and clinical work with individuals and groups. It is highly recommended for people wishing to enrol in the 2025 Training Group.
This multi-level training group over eight weekends between early March and early November 2025 at the Melbourne Campus is an AANZPA accredited training program. It includes a workshop in September workshop which is open to a wider group of trainees.
For new trainees at the core curriculum level and for trainees at intermediate and advanced levels of training.
with Hilde Knottenbelt and Martin Putt
Martin Putt
Martin is a Psychodramatist & Trainer Educator Practitioner-in-training (TEPit) on the staff of Psychodrama Aotearoa New Zealand Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He is a registered psychotherapist working in private practice with a wide range of clients, mostly boys and men. He has served as Secretary and is the immediate past-President of AANZPA. Before becoming a psychotherapist, Martin's background included working as an actor in a touring theatre-in-education company, theatre improvisation, especially Playback Theatre, and working with young people in both a community youth centre and as a children's hospital play-specialist. He is a proud graduate of the John Bolton Theatre School in Melbourne and he values the playfulness, soulfulness and creativity of psychodrama in groups, in individual sessions, and in training.
Hilde Knottenbelt
Hilde is a Psychodramatist and Trainer, Educator, Practitioner (TEP). She is the Executive Director of Psychodrama Australia, and the training group coordinator at Psychodrama Australia’s Melbourne Campus, where she has been a trainer since 2000. She has over 40 years' experience as a teacher, trainer and educator in experiential learning, including in the creative arts. She works in private practice as a counsellor, supervisor and voice coach and teaches vocal improvisation and storytelling in groups in the community. Hilde first worked with Martin when they were performers in Melbourne’s Living Stories Playback Theatre Company.
Detailed workshop description coming soon.
with Chris Hosking
For participants in the 2025 Training Group and trainees from Melbourne and beyond who are actively engaged with psychodrama training.
Current and Past Events
Led by Hilde Knottenbelt
This workshop is for people interested in experiencing the psychodrama method and for
people wishing to discover its relevance for their professional and clinical work with individuals
and groups. It is highly recommended for people wishing to enrol in the
2019 Training Group.
Led by Chris Hosking
In this training workshop we will give our attention to the dramatic, we will highlight ourselves as dramatists, artists and theatre lovers and weave this together in what the psyche unfolds to us moment by moment.
Led by Richard Hall
The purpose is to further the development of identity as group leaders, counsellors and individual practitioners, and to develop expertise in leadership and clinical application in groups and one to one settings.
What does the psychodrama method offer in the processes of healing trauma? This training workshop highlights psychodrama concepts, techniques and approaches relevant to working with harmful and traumatic experiences.
Led by Richard Hall and Annette Fisher
This supervision group is for professionals conducting clinical work in groups and one to one settings, including psychodrama practitioners, trainees and other professionals interested in this approach.
Led by Richard Hall
A psychodrama training workshop focussed on role training.
Role training is an effort to help us perform adequately in future situations. It is a method of learning that aims to bring about a rise in the spontaneity level of an individual and combine this with practice of a new expression.
3 day workshop 4-6 May
Led by Chris Hosking
This supervision group is for professionals conducting clinical work in groups and one to one settings, including psychodrama practitioners, trainees and other professionals interested in this approach.
This multi-level training group is an AANZPA accredited training program. It is for new trainees at the core curriculum level and for trainees at intermediate and advanced levels of training. It incorporates workshops in May* July* and September* which are also open to a wider group of participants.
This workshop is for people interested in experiencing the psychodrama method and for those wishing to discover its relevance for their professional and clinical work with individuals and groups. It is highly recommended for people wishing to enrol in the 2018 Training Group.
Led by Richard Hall, Counselling Psychologist, Psychodramatist and staff member of Psychodrama Australia.
This supervision group is for professionals conducting clinical work in groups and one to one settings, including psychodrama practitioners, trainees and other professionals interested in this approach.