Perth Campus
The Perth Campus aims to provide a range of opportunities for experiential learning applying Psychodrama, also referred to as action methods. This collectively includes group leadership, psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry and role training that facilitate on-going, progressive and creative functioning in everyday life, work and community situations.
Psychodrama is a general term that includes the philosophy, theory, and methods developed by Dr JL Moreno (1898-1974) and since then by the Australian Aotearoa and New Zealand Psychodrama Association Inc (AANZPA) and many organisations and countries throughout the world.
Psychodrama is conducted in groups and has wide application in education, organisational development, community development, health and social justice. This professional development is for anyone who works with others as counsellors, coaches, organisational consultants, team leaders, community service providers, managers, teachers, health professionals, or who are working with individuals or groups in any field.
As well as the full-year Training Program, workshops for Introduction to Psychodrama and Professional development using Moreno's action methods will be offered from time to time. These will provide Registraion information on this website and are open to those new to psychodrama and any professional people intered in developing more creative reponses to life.s circumstances and more satisfying relationships.
For interest in the Training program, please contact Kevin Franklin kevfrank@westnet.com.au or Helen Phelan hjphelan@iinet.net.au and see information below.
The AANZPA site AANZPA.org has information on the annual conference held in January each year in various cities in Australia and New Zealand.
Upcoming Events
Explore psychodrama and experience more creative responses in your life and work!
Hello - You are invited to explore the action and creativity of psychodrama.
Open to trainees and those new to psychodrama - Curious? The best way to find out about psychodrama s to experience it - come and join us!
Psychodrama is an active and enlivening method which aims to increase spontaneity, strengthen relationships, and build community.
At its heart, psychodrama values authenticity and imagination, and provides opportunities to be free of repetition, and enhancing growth and self-reliance. On the psychodrama stage our relationship with our self, and with others can be revised and enriched so we may feel connected to the universe again. Entering our own and each other’s worlds with a spirit of play, experimentation, and generosity we will use the truth and magic of the psychodramatic method to ignite spontaneity and revive our creative spirit.
This one-day taster in Psychodrama is conducted by experienced group practitioners. Please feel free to forward the invitation to others who may be interested.
Perth Campus
2025 Psychodrama Training - Core Learning
Overview
Psychodrama is a general term that includes the philosophy, theory, and methods of Dr JL Moreno (1898-1974) and meets the Curriculum and Training Standards set by the Board of Examiners of Australia Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association.
Training in psychodrama, which is also referred to as action methods, is conducted in groups in which participants develop group-work leadership and the value of personal and professional development in a supportive group setting.
The psychodrama method is one that calls for expression of our self through both mind and body. It can be the means to awaken abilities and energies, to bring into our consciousness a greater sense of who we are and of the unique purpose which each of us has in being on this planet, and to assist us to make a working whole. It invites us to leave the conserved and stultified patterns by which we have imprisoned ourselves, and to enter once more into a free situation. We are invited to create through drama the situations that we have always dreamed of, and, through the release of spontaneity in role play, to develop abilities that have a practical application in life itself. AANZPA Training and Standards Manual 2020
This full-year training course covers the key aspects of the psychodrama method. The training is a commitment to your development, often enlivening, and at times facing the challenge of self-presentation, stepping forward to build reciprocal relationships and working and walking with each other. The training covers significant personal development in parallel with professional development and applications.
Training will enable integration of the theory and practice of the psychodramatic method into your professional practice. These include knowledge and skills in psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry, role training and group work. Each participant brings to the training group a wide range of prior educational and life experiences. We gain from each other as we proceed throughout the course.
Who is the Course for?
This full-year course is designed for people who work with people. This may be as counsellors, coaches, organisational consultants, team leaders, community group leaders, managers, teachers, therapists or health professionals. Psychodrama training is a post-graduate course and is open to those with/or working towards, a degree, diploma, or equivalence in a relevant field.
We welcome interested newcomers and ask you to have an initial interview with the trainer of the Campus.
The Learning Process
Training is taught through supervised experiential learning processes, supported by reading and written assignments, supervised practice in action, shared learning, and group interaction. The experiential nature and reflective practice of the training will develop your thinking, appropriate new professional-practice approaches, and expand your creative responses in personal expression and relationships.
Training Standards.
This training is designed in accordance with the Training & Standards Manual as set out by Australian & Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association Inc. (AANZPA Inc.) Board of Examiners. Training hours are accredited with Psychodrama Australia Perth Campus towards accreditation.
For further information about psychodrama and training please visit frequently asked questions (FAQs) at www.psychodramaaustralia.edu.au
The Art of Production
-Exploring the Aesthetics and Dramatic Sensibility of Psychodramatic Enactment-
Join us for this weekend training workshop that invites participants into the artistry of producing psychodramas. We will immerse ourselves in the aesthetic and dramatic dimensions of both the director’s role and the auxiliaries supporting the protagonist’s expression through sensitive, embodied attention to co-create evocative and meaningful scenes.
Drawing on principles from theatre, improvisation, and psychodrama, we will explore tone, tempo, and transitions; the creative use of space, sound, silence, and symbol; and the playful spontaneity that brings scenes to life, enhanced spontaneity to the protagonist and creative energy to all. Participants will be encouraged to experiment, be curious, and improvise; and together, we will refine our capacity to direct with keen, dramatic sensibility-cultivating moments of beauty, clarity, and emotional resonance.
Open to beginner, intermediate, and advanced psychodrama trainees who wish to deepen the art and craft of psychodramatic production.
Current and Past Events
Psychodrama: Applied Creativity in Life and Work
Explore psychodrama and experience more creative responses in your life and work!
Hello - You are invited to explore the action and creativity of psychodrama.
Psychodrama is an active and enlivening method which aims to increase spontaneity, strengthen relationships, and build community.
At its heart, psychodrama values authenticity and imagination, and provides opportunities to be free of repetition, and enhancing growth and self-reliance. On the psychodrama stage our relationship with our self, and with others can be revised and enriched so we may feel connected to the universe again. Entering our own and each other’s worlds with a spirit of play, experimentation, and generosity we will use the truth and magic of the psychodramatic method to ignite spontaneity and revive our creative spirit.
Open to trainees and those new to psychodrama to experience the method and to explore possibilities of application in many professional and life situations. Topics emerging from the group can be explored.
Curious? The best way to find out is to experience it - come and join us.
If you're a professional educator, manager, HR / organisational change agent, counsellor, teacher, facilitator, psychotherapist, social worker, trainer, or related creative arts, you will find this workshop of benefit.
This one-day taster in Psychodrama is conducted by experienced group practitioners. Please feel free to forward the invitation to others who may be interested.
Sociometry, Systems and Group Dynamics
J.L.Moreno deveoped sociometry to assist in explaining interrelational dynamics. This is most helpful in mapping our experiences of group dynmamics and assists in developing interventions to benefit group funtioning. With Sociometry, Moreno adds to our understanding and appreciation of our subjective experience in groups, and provides several tools for us to 'see' the dynamics, the connections, and who is relating to whom. It assists us to be aware and alert to what our criteria might be when we choose or don't choose; on what basis we feel drawn to some people and not to others.
Sociometry linked with psychodrama principles provides avenues for seeing and healing the sociometry in groups and relationships.
Aspects to be explored in theis workshop includes:
1. Sociometric view of the structure of a system – inclusions/exclusions;
2. Basic elements of sociometry; tele, networks, star, leader, isolate, rejectee, dyad, triangle. Identify application as group leader and group member.
3. Sociometric questions, investigations, measures e.g., continuum, diamond of opposites
There will also be an opportunity to conduct a sociometric measure, to develop the criteria and explore the responses.
Spontaneity – living in the present
Jacob Moreno created psychodrama to expand our capacity to be spontaneous beings. In doing so, we creatively express ourselves and progresses in our lives. This orientation is unique to psychodrama methodology.
This experiential method brings life into psychotherapeutic, educational, community and organisational settings.
When we ‘live in the moment’ we are truly creative beings. In a familiar situation, the challenge is to approach such familiarity with freshness and vitality. In a new situation, the challenge is to respond to the unknown with vitality that serves the situation. The phrase, ‘a new response in an old situation and an adequate response in a new situation’ is often quoted in psychodrama. Adequacy here means freshness and vitality in that context.
Participants in this workshop can expect to revitalise themselves as group members, auxiliaries in dramas, as protagonists and as directors of dramas. You will also expand your understanding of what Moreno means by spontaneity as you engage in this recursive experiential learning experience.
This Workshop will be led by visiting Trainer MARTIN PUTT from Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
People who have attended some psychodrama, as well as Trainees, are welcome, and will find this workshop brings new insights to whatever field you work in, and in your relationships.. Peope new to psychodrama will need to attend an inteview with Helen Phelan.before Registering.
Workhop will be limited to 14 people - Register and Pay early to reserve a place.
REGISTER REQUIRED BY MAY 1st - WITH HELEN PHEAN hjphelan@iinet.net.au 0407225116 or KEVIN FRANKLIN kevfrank@Westnet.com.au
PAYMENT REQUIRED BEFORE 17th May
WORKSHOP 2 - Role Theory and Roles of Director, Auxiliary, Group Leader
The 2024 Perth Campus Training Program
The Training Program provides for multi-level training in psychodrama, from beginners through to intermediate and advanced trainees.
The Program uncompasses 7 Training Weekends, with additional 3hr follow-up processing sessions,
Several Additional Workshops are offered including a 4-Day Intensive in October.
The Program also include visiting trainers.
Trainees are requested to enrol early and Payment for each workshop is requested to be comleted before the Workshop,
Applications for Enrolment are now open and each applicant will be required to complete an interview before confirmation of enrolment in the training program. Each Trainee will be required to have a negotiated and signed Training Agreement.
Please contact Helen Phelan: M 0407 225 116 or Kevin Franklin: M 0478 641 763, . hjphelan@iinet.net.au, kevfrank@westnet.com.au
Experiential Workshop - Psychodrama Introduction– an experiential workshop.
You are invited to an introduction to psychodrama. There will be an opportunity to experience it in action and to explore ways you can apply it. Theory questions are welcome. You can expect to tap into your creativity and enhance spontaneity and creativity in your life and work.
Open Night Psychodrama Session
Interested in psychodrama? Join us for this introductory session to experience psychodrama and learn about its basis in creativity and spontaneity.
2024 Perth Campus Training Program
The Training Program provides for multi-level training in psychodrama, from beginners through to intermediate and advanced trainees.
The Program uncompasses 7 Training Weekends, with additional 3hr follow-up processing sessions,
Several Additional Workshops are offered including a 4-Day Intensive in October.
The Program also include visiting trainers.
Trainees are requested to enrol early and an Early-Bird discount is offered for full payment by 1 March.
Applications for Enrolment are now open and each applicant will be required to complete an interview before confirmation of enrolment. Each Trainee will be required to have a negotiated and signed Training Agreement.
Please contact Helen Phelan: M 0407 225 116 or Kevin Franklin: M 0478 641 763, . hjphelan@iinet.net.au, kevfrank@westnet.com.au
You are invited to our last workshop for the Year.
TRAINING WORKSHOP – INTEGRATION AND SUSTAINING THE CREATOR
This session provides an opportunity to review and integrate learning of the many dimensions of psychodrama experienced throughout the year.
Role development requires congruence of feeling, thinking and action, with spontaneity, creativity and expression in the moment.
We will work together to develop strategies to ‘stand by’ the new and emerging roles and to keep our creativity warmed up to remain fully alive as we transition from training for the year.
Anyone new or less familiar with psychodrama will gain insight into the theory and practical application of psychodrama, as we reflect on and enact moments of challenge and learning, of delight and healing.
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Explore psychodrama and experience more creative responses in your life and work!
Hello - You are invited to explore the action and creativity of psychodrama.Open to trainees and those new to psychodrama to experience the method and to explore possibilities of application in many professional and life situations
Psychodrama is an active and enlivening method which aims to increase spontaneity, strengthen relationships and build community.
Curious? The best way to find out is to experience it - come and join us. New-comers are most welcome.
If you're a professional educator, manager, HR / organisational change agent, counsellor, teacher, facilitator, psychotherapist, social worker, trainer, or related creative arts, you will find this workshop of benefit.
Experience a taster in Psychodrama, conducted by experienced group practitioners. Please feel free to forward the invitation to others who may be interested
Topics emerging from the group can be explored.
In this weekend workshop psychodrama trainees can expect to have an experience of sociodrama, one of the specialties of psychodrama. The purpose of sociodrama is to bring about effective inter group and intra group functioning. Elizabeth, who is leading this weekend, has most of her experience in conducting sociodramas in large public sector organisations; the Audit Office, Universities, Treasury, Health Department, Police, Education, Agriculture and Fisheries, etc. She has also used sociodrama in some private sector organisations and in the community sector, particularly in disability services, ‘What must I develop to thrive in a world where some people think I’d be better off dead?’
Saturday and Sunday - 22nd & 23 July 2023