Information for Trainees
The PANZ Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland is a trust providing training leading to certification as a AANZPA Inc. practitioner of Psychodrama, Sociodrama, Sociometry and Role Training. The ATCP curriculum and practice is governed by the AANZPA Inc. Code of Ethics and the AANZPA Inc. Board of Examiners’ Training and Standards Manual.
The work of the Training Centre is an integral aspect of AANZPA and the local region, AANZPA Northern. PANZ Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland is supported by a Trust board. The training offered is supervised by the AANZPA Inc. Board of Examiners and is provided in Auckland by a team of accredited practitioners including Psychodramatists and a Sociodramatist, who are Board certified Trainer Educator Practitioners (TEP) or TEPs in training. These people are Vivienne Thomson (TEP), Hamish Brown (TEP) and Martin Putt (TEPit). Chris Hosking (TEP) who is a Distinguished Member of AANZPA is a visiting trainer.
Purpose of Training
Enrolment Criteria
- Have previous experience in psychodrama
- Preferably possess or are working towards professional qualifications
- Have the resources to commit themselves to the training and its requirements
- Identify and are willing to have regular supervision sessions with a suitable supervisor who can guide the trainee through the stages of development
The Training Process
Training is a developmental process designed to meet requirements described in the AANZPA Inc. Training and Standards Manual. Progress is determined by assessment of role development and readiness to commence the next phase of training. Assessment requirements are discussed by trainees with their supervisor and trainer at regular intervals through the training process.
The Structure of the Training Process
The purpose of the initial Foundations year is to provide an introduction and overview of the entire content of the method – psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry, role training and group work. Throughout the programme, participants are encouraged to attend experiential weekends to gain further experience in the method. At the end of the Foundations training, each trainee has a 40-minute consultation with his or her trainers to review role development, progress, abilities and training goals. The Foundations programme commences with an opening weekend followed by various training sessions and experiential sessions that are continued throughout the year. All experiential weekends are included in the cost. There may be some additional stand alone workshops that are not incorporated in the overall cost that are optional.
Experiential Weekends
These provide for trainees and others to explore their social atom and to attend to personal development.
Developing Practice
Trainees will participate in group interactions and dramas as audience, protagonist, auxiliary and director. They work to develop greater autonomy and authority. The ability to make oral and written reports of systemic assessments, followed by investigative discussion, is promoted.
Open Events
Some aspects of the training programme are open to participants not enrolled in year-long programmes. Details of these are provided on the Training Programme page.
Venue
Virtually all of PANZ Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s programmed events take place at Corban Estate Arts Centre, 426 Great North Road, Henderson, and usually at the Old St Michael’s Church on site at Corban Estate Arts Centre or other rooms available there.
Supervision and Peer Groups
Supervision
Supervision is an integral part of the training process. As trainees progress in their training, and apply the method in their life and work, supervision assists in the integration of new learning.
Individual and group supervision sessions are available from the Institute staff. A suitable supervisor is selected in consultation with the current trainer.
Training Records
PANZ maintains a training record for each trainee. In addition to this trainees are expected to keep a record of their attendance at training events. Trainees can request a summary of their training record for a fee of $25; please contact the PANZ Administrator <office@psychodrama.org.nz>.
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Ethics
As mentioned in the Training Agreement, trainees are expected to be familiar with and abide by the AANZPA Code of Ethics.
All PANZ Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland staff members are AANZPA members, and as such are bound by the AANZPA Code of Ethics. The PANZ Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland has a Complaints Procedure.
Trainees not enrolled in programme courses
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PANZ Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Staff
Vivienne Thomson
Vivienne is a Sociodramatist and Trainer Educator Practitioner (TEP) and is the Director of Training of the PANZ Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland campus. She served on the AANZPA Executive (2003-2005) and Board of Examiners (2006-2014), including as Secretary of the Board (2009-2014) and is currently the Chair of the Ethics Committee.
After working as a primary teacher in the public system, Vivienne ran an alternative school for several years. Following her teaching career she established a training and consulting company in the 1980s which continues today. She has used her experience in psychodrama to develop innovative approaches to her work which have led to significant organisational developments in New Zealand and overseas. Results of her work have been published by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Great Britain, the New Zealand Resource Centre and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has also developed training resources that have been used in the University of London, the Centre for Post Graduate Pharmacy Education Great Britain, and in many NZ organisations. Currently, Vivienne’s work is mostly providing supervision and mentoring to individuals enabling them to apply their talents in their particular chosen field of work.
Vivienne has a Diploma of Teaching, a B.A. majoring in Education, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Product Design Enterprise. A little known fact is that she’s a qualified International Wildwater Judge. Now she tends to have more sedate interests such as being a Board member (Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand Trust), private pianist, handbell ringer, keen gardener and cook, and grandmother.
Hamish Brown
Hamish is a Psychodramatist and Trainer Educator Practitioner (TEP). He delivers training in Aotearoa New Zealand through the Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin Campuses of PANZ.
Hamish is a psychotherapist who has worked in private practice since 2002. He sees a wide range of clients including individuals, couples and groups. He was appointed to the Psychotherapy Board of Aotearoa New Zealand (PBANZ) in 2016 and served as the PBANZ Chair between 2020 and 2023.
Hamish has been an organisational consultant since 1997. He has worked in several countries on projects including training people in group facilitation, and leadership and has led large-scale projects oriented to producing systemic and organisational change. He co-founded Phoenix Facilitation in 2008 to provide organisational consulting based on Moreno's social theories.
Hamish holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and a Master’s Degree in Dispute Resolution from Massey University,
Hamish is the father of two grown-up daughters. He grew up on a farm near Kaikohe in Te Tai Tokerau and is now based in West Auckland. In his spare time, he loves playing contract bridge.
Martin Putt
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.
Chris Hosking
Chris Hosking is an action methods practitioner and trainer with considerable breadth of experience. She has been training people in psychodrama and sociometry for many years in Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Greece and Japan. Her training orientation is based upon an experiential learning model and a systems approach. She is a qualified Psychodramatist and Trainer, Educator and Practitioner with the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association and a Distinguished Member of AANZPA.
Contact
PANZ Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Contact
PANZ Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
eMail auckland@psychodrama.org.nz
phone: +64 9 3727273
mobile: +64 21 177 0727