The 2026 Psychodrama Training Program in Sydney commences in February.
- Sat 7 & Sun 8 March, (2 days) The Heart of Psychodrama *NEW DATES*
- Fri 22, Sat 23 & Sun 24 May (3 days) Psychodrama: A Methodology of Freedom
- Sat 11 & Sun 12 July (2 days) Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
- Fri 18, Sat 19 & Sun 20 September (3 days) Role Theory, Spontaneity and Adequacy
- Sat 14 & 15 November (2 days) Moreno and the Self
Two Experiential Psychodrama Workshops
- Sat 13 & Sun 14 June, (2 days)
- Sat 15 & Sun 16 August (2 days)
And 6 Open Nights in 2026
Fri 30 January, Fri 6 March (Rescheduled from 20 Feb), Thurs 21 May, Fri 10 July, Thurs 17 Sept and Fri 13 November.
Please ensure you are on the mailing list to get further information about the program as soon as it becomes available.
For 2026 enquiries contact Rollo Browne (0417 682 085) or Bona Anna (0451 046 928).
Upcoming Events
Psychodrama awakens and strengthens people’s ability to express themselves responsively and creatively in all aspects of their lives. In this workshop you will be enter into the psychodrama process, with a focus on what matters to you in your life - perhaps you want to bring more vitality and flow into your work and relationships; break through old patterns of behaviour and create new responses; or develop a specific aspect of your functioning.
The best way to understand the power of psychodrama is to experience it.
Come and join in or sit and watch as the drama unfolds. Experience the power of action methods and gain new perspectives on the way we relate in today’s world
The mirror in the tale of Snow White can only speak the truth. The story hinges on the Queen’s question to the mirror and her fury in response to what she hears. It is the question itself that sets up all that follows for Snow White, and it is a question that is relevant to every human self because all human beings seek mirroring in some form or another. Do we, like the Queen, simply want to be affirmed or do we want to know something new or real about ourselves? What do we want to be mirrored for? How do we go about getting the mirroring we want? What do we do when get unwanted mirroring?
In this workshop, we will explore the significance of the stage of the mirror and the technique of mirroring, how mirroring can be used effectively in psychodramatic production and the range of responses that might arise.
Psychodrama awakens and strengthens people’s ability to express themselves responsively and creatively in all aspects of their lives. In this workshop you will be enter into the psychodrama process, with a focus on what matters to you in your life - perhaps you want to bring more vitality and flow into your work and relationships; break through old patterns of behaviour and create new responses; or develop a specific aspect of your functioning.
The best way to understand the power of psychodrama is to experience it.
These evenings are designed to give you an opportunity to experience psychodrama in a safe and gentle environment. Each session will be directed by an experienced psychodramatist with time available for questions about the method and its applications.
The value of role theory is that is produces living pictures of the self, which assist a person to gain a more objective picture of their functioning at any relevant moment. These are generally moments when they are unaware of how they are being and what they are doing. The point is for the individual to develop a greater sense of themselves, stimulate their creativity and continue to expand their progressive functioning. This is a vision of creative living, one that effectively progresses their life purpose. As Clayton put it, “life provides countless opportunities to combine astute analysis with the creative element in a person’s functioning” (1993:1).
In this workshop, we will explore role theory, specifically the impact of role perceptions in here and now interactions and the use of role analysis to deepen our understanding of individual role structures and role relations between individuals.
The best way to understand the power of psychodrama is to experience it.
These evenings are designed to give you an opportunity to experience psychodrama in a safe and gentle environment. Each session will be directed by an experienced psychodramatist with time available for questions about the method and its applications.
The self is what a person is, and role is what a person does. Moreno saw the self as a mystery that could best be approached through role, its tangible forms. Hence his theory of personality is based on roles and role structures. Moreno was clear that the self emerges from roles (1972:iii) and that, before there can be an experience of a sense of 'me' and 'I', the precursor and partial roles strive to cluster and become unified. The recognition of 'me' as a separate being indicates that there is sufficient unification to support a sense of self.
Current and Past Events
Psychodrama focuses on reclaiming your innate spontaneity – ‘a readiness for a free and vital response to the emerging moment’ (Phil Carter). Spontaneity infuses daily life with potency and flexibility, so that you create more satisfying relationships and find the value in what is here and now.
In this 2-day workshop, we will use psychodrama to bring greater spontaneity to the issues that matter to you. There will be a focus on sustaining a warm-up to areas of life that are fulfilling and generative, working through habitual patterns that no longer serve you, and realigning thoughts, feelings and actions to bring a fuller expression of yourself in your life.
Friday 26th June (evening) to Sunday 28th June 2020.
With Hilde Knottenbelt & Charmaine McVea
The shift in context facing each one of us as we live with the impacts of COVID 19 has meant that many of us have had to reimagine aspects of our lives and futures. In the midst of this disruption and loosening to some of our patterned ways of living, there is a possibility to reconfigure, reassess and to dream again.
Using the psychodrama method and arts making processes, this workshop offers an in-between space where the stories we tell ourselves about who we are can be paused and perhaps reimagined. It offers a liminal space where the experiencing being can stay with what is, as part of engaging in a creative process.
This year long training program covers the core knowledge, skills and personal development that underpin psychodrama practice . It equips participants to integrate psychodramatic processes into their professional practice, bringing greater vitality, depth and immediacy to their work. You will have the opportunity to experience psychodrama, broaden your production capabilities, develop greater flexibility in group work and deepen therapeutic or systems interventions. The purpose is to apply your learning in your work and life, to be more effective in your work and have more satisfying interactions.
Experiential Psychodrama Workshop, Saturday & Sunday, 9.30-4.30pm
Making a communityCommunity can be looked at from many points of view.In this training workshop we will focus on roles that are required to assist in creating and developing a community.Self-presentation, understanding our attractions to and rejections of others, increasing the flexibility of our responses to situations, and working with differences of opinion will be investigated in action and discussion.Participants will be encouraged to practice leadership, take initiative and to be active group members.Finally we will draw conclusions about the essentials of a community from our experiences in the workshop.Leaders: Annette Fisher, Richard Hall
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.
Many of us are committed to an on-going process of learning throughout our lives. We each have many experiences which assists us to develop. How we learn, explore and process those experiences can assist us or hinder us in learning. A person can be an open learner, a most helpful style to integrate and process experiences and communication. Other styles of learning include being a dependent learner, an anxious learner or a fighting learner.
In this workshop we will consider and explore the many learning styles to assist us when working with a variety of people, as well as in our own evolution. It will assist us to be alert to the particular personality and role systems a person enacts and how that person explores and learns from a particular experience. It will also assist us as to integrate roles we enact in response to anothers efforts to learn.
This workshop is an opportunity to focus on areas of your own development that will assist you to be more engaged and effective in your professional and personal life. Using classical psychodrama we will work with the interests and concerns of group members. The intention is to bring your actions and relationships more in line with who you are and what is important to you, so that you live life with greater vitality.
Participating in this workshop meets the experiential hours requirement for entering a training group in 2019.
In this workshop we will consider the structure of a psychodramatic session and the timely application of psychodramatic techniques.
November is often a time of integration of the year’s training and professional development and a time to be conscious of the learnings of the year so they can be carried forward into our practice as group workers and individual consultants and clinicians. It is an opportunity for all participates to direct, be an auxiliary and also a protagonist within the weekend.
Curious about psychodrama and what makes it work? Thinking about whether it is for you?
This program is the perfect place to start.
The best way to understand the power of psychodrama is to experience it and these evenings are designed to give participants an opportunity to experience psychodrama in a safe and gentle environment. Each session will be directed by an experienced psychodramatist with time available for questions about the method and its applications.
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.
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.
In this workshop we will explore the application of the psychodramatic method to work with traumatised individuals. We will consider psychodramatic techniques and specific application in assisting the clinician in the healing of a protagonist who has experienced trauma with resultant Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Enactments will inform our understanding and use of action interventions. The workshop will assist particularly in the theory and practice of the Clinician and Therapeutic Guide in dealing with this important area of focused learning.
GENDER JOURNEY
Ken and Barbie are only dolls, but they send a powerful message regarding how one should present oneself in the world. Everyone has a story about their gender identity, what it is, how it developed and their sense of comfort and 'fit' with that identity. Come along and participate in an open night where the psychodrama method will be used to explore this vital theme.
Psychodrama Australia Sydney is delighted to welcome Jo Dewar who will run this session. Jo is a psychodrama practitioner and counsellor. She has many years experience working in the area of domestic violence and drug and alcohol counselling. Jo is passionate about personal development, especially in the area of gender issues.