Description
Like an improviser, the director of a psychodrama, sociodrama, role training, sociometry, or group work session needs to accept each moment as it comes and respond in the here and now to what is emerging in the individual and the group; and then, to what is on the stage. They must balance being both ‘in the moment’ and ‘outside the moment’, constantly faced with the question of “what to do next?”. They make choices based on psychodrama theory, principles, and techniques; and need to be able to generate ideas for a way forward and to let go of these when they are not effective. This dynamic process requires role flexibility and a high level of spontaneity and creativity.
The improviser does not take an ‘anything goes’ approach, but trains themselves to listen to their thoughts and senses, imagine, follow the body, accept everything, make bold offers, and embody a courage to adapt with creativity to a constantly changing environment. In this workshop, there will be a focus on developing your ability to maintain a free-flowing presence as a group member and auxiliary, and as a director. Together we will seek to notice when your spontaneity, or that of others, drops, and to find ways to recover when this happens. We will work psychodramatically with that which inhibits our ability to act and our freedom of expression, and blocks our inherent playfulness.
Enrol in W3-2022: The Psychodrama Director as Improviser.
Wellington Psychodrama Training Institute
Workshop Code: W3-2022
Date and Times
28 October – 30 October
Friday: 28 October: 7.00pm – 9.00pm
Saturday: 29 October: 10.00am – 5.30pm
Sunday: 30 October: 9.30am – 5.00pm
Venue
To be confirmed: Central Wellington.
Fee
$495.00Some places are available at a reduced rate
Deposit: $150.00
Martin Putt
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Campus
Martin is a Psychodramatist and Trainer Educator Practitioner-in-training (TEPit) with PANZ working at the Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland campus. He is the immediate Past President of AANZPA (2019-2023) serving on the AANZPA Executive from 2013 to 2024.
Martin began his working life in youth work, acting and working as a hospital play specialist with adolescents. After spending the 1990s involved with theatre, improvisation and Playback Theatre in Australia and Aotearoa he discovered psychodrama in 1998 and never looked back. On the strength of his psychodrama qualification, he became a registered psychotherapist in 2013. Following clinical work in public sector NGO’s and Te Whatu Ora’s Mason Clinic Regional Forensic Psychiatry Service, he now works in private practice in Herne Bay, Auckland seeing a wide range of clients, mostly boys and men, and supervisees. After 25 years of practice in the field, he continues to work with clients presenting with harmful sexual behaviours.
Martin has a B.A. in Political Science (Canterbury), a Post Graduate Diploma in Drama (Auckland) and two Post Graduate Certificates in Advanced Psychotherapy Practice; one in Group Psychotherapy (AUT) and one in Clinical Supervision (AUT). Martin is also a proud graduate of the John Bolton Theatre School (Melbourne, 1996)
Martin brings creativity, playfulness and a love of the psychodramatic method to his work as a trainer and psychodramatist. He is a husband and father and loves to be in the sea, in the garden, in the kitchen or in an audience and is steadied by practices on the mat and on the cushion.
Bev Hosking
Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington Campus Director of Training
Bev Hosking is an experienced counsellor, group worker and supervisor who has been in private practice since 1987. She is a Role Trainer and TEP (Trainer, Educator and Practitioner); and the Director of Training for the PANZ Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington Campus.
Bev has been actively pursuing new approaches for us to meet with each other so that we can develop our capacities to respond creatively to our current social, cultural and political realities.
She works with active methods to promote social dialogue and is committed to bringing spontaneity and creativity to all aspects of life and work.