Series of 3 Friday afternoon Supervised Practice sessions : ‘Running Groups’
Join a small group of max 5 people with a focus on setting up and running psychodrama groups in your work or in the community. Enrolment is for all 3 supervised practice sessions.
Vision
Psychodrama is a creative therapeutic method ideally run in groups. We want to encourage experienced trainees to set up and run groups and receive supervision for their practice.
In the Psychodrama Association our vision is that, as a result of our work, people everywhere will have a responsive and creative expression that brings joy to the human spirt, uplifts the soul and makes everyone feel part of the universe again.
Purpose
You will apply your Psychodrama, sociodrama, role training or sociometric abilities to set up and run groups in the community or at work.
The groups can be personal development, group therapy, education, community development, working with creative expression, exploring relevant personal, social, cultural or environmental issues.
You can work with whatever age group appeals – the applications are endless!
Structure
- Create a focus and target audience, and a structure for a group you want to run
- Find potential participants and have them enrol
- Make a plan for your group sessions
- Run your group for 6 weeks (you may invite a peer to attend as a trained auxiliary, but this group is not co-led)
- Receive peer support and supervision for your work in the group over three Friday sessions
Who can attend?
Anyone who wants to run a group using Psychodramatic action methods and receive peer support and trainer supervision for their practice.
If you are new to psychodrama, have not trained with us before or are returning after a long break from training, please contact us for a training conversation prior to enrolling for this workshop to ensure you have the psychodrama experience needed to enter a training programme and this workshop is a good match for you. (See our enrolment policy)
Enrol in Supervised Practice Series - Running Groups
PANZ Whakatū Nelson
Workshop Code: NSN24-B
Dates and times
Enrolment comprises all three sessions:
Friday, 8 March
Friday, 14 June
Friday, 11 October
2.00 pm to 4.30 pm each Friday
Venue
Cher Williscroft’s Nelson CBD office
Training hours
7.5 hours
Fee
For all 3 sessions: $265
(Minimum 50% deposit required to secure a place with the balance payable 4 weeks before the first practice session starts)
Trainer
Cher Williscroft
PANZ Whakatū Nelson Director of Training
Cher is a Sociodramatist and Trainer Educator Practitioner (TEP) with PANZ and is Director of Training for the Wakatu/Nelson campus. She currently sits on the Board of Examiners and holds the role of the Practical Assessment Registrar. She has served twice on the AANZPA Executive as Membership Secretary and Secretary.
Cher’s early career was in Community Arts, Community Education, Community Recreation and Community Development, working for Nelson City Council and Nelson Polytechnic.For 8 years she worked in leadership roles at the Sealord Group Ltd as Human Resources Manager and then Organisation Development Manager, where she applied herself as a sociodramatist in the leadership of Maori and Japanese owned commercial seafood organisation.
As Managing Director of her business, Conflict Management Ltd (since 1986), she developed her lifelong interest in conflict resolution working as a mediator, facilitating breakthrough communication in the workplace. In 2004 she developed a successful workshop called
Courageous Conversations running several times each year since 2004 and she continues to teach the conflict resolution methods that she has developed, today in Courageous Conversations Masterclasses. She currently supervises clients in leadership positions.
Cher holds a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Women’s Studies from Murdoch University in WA
Living in Nelson, by the sea with her partner John, she kayaks, hangs out in nature, and cooks from the garden. She performs in a singing duo, keeps fit, and drafts and constructs her own clothes. Her daughter Maddy and her partner with two mokopuna are the joy of her life.