Who benefits
Psychodrama offers professional development for people who work with people. It is an accredited psychotherapy training with the Psychotherapy Board of Aotearoa New Zealand and is valued by organisational consultants who emphasise working effectively with human dynamics in their practice.
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Broad Scope
Psychodrama can be applied in various fields; business, management, education, training and pastoral care, as well as those who work in psychotherapy. Moreno did not see his approach as only a clinical therapeutic method.
A truly therapeutic procedure cannot have less an objective than the whole of mankind.
Benefits of training
Training aims
The aim of the training is to assist you in integrating the theory and practice of psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry, role training, and group work through supervised experiential learning, writing, and applications of the method to expand your chosen profession and life identity. If you want to work in fresh, creative, thoughtful and original ways to help others be more effective in their lives and work, this training is for you.
Relevance of training
Psychodrama training is relevant to you if you are interested in enlivening personal, interpersonal and group functioning in the fields of health, education, leadership, community and organisation development and the creative arts. The training emphasises both relational and systems perspectives on living, valuing spontaneity, and taking fresh approaches to entrenched problems.
Who is it for?
This training is suited to you in your work if you want to significantly expand your abilities to appreciate and intervene with the individuals and groups you work with, increasing both your own and your client’s effectiveness in their lives and work.
What you will learn
You will learn to unleash the power of psychodrama and discover its transformative potential. By applying the range of methods within psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry and role training, you will gain the tools to build strong working relationships and enhance personal and professional development. Whether you are engaging in one-on-one interactions, group work, or individual and group psychotherapy, this training will empower you to create profound change.
Individuals learn
re-examine your life situations and past
refresh your social networks and cultural context
generate new perspectives on particular events and situations
prepare for future situations with a greater degree of flexibility, vitality and immediacy
bring together action and insight
act in the ‘here and now’ as you engage with life
enlarge your perceptions of themselves and others
Group learn
examine themselves and constructively refresh the dynamics of group life
recognise patterns of interaction and interpersonal dynamics
investigate and refresh both formal and informal relationship networks
examine themselves and constructively refresh the dynamics of group life
make informed decisions about changing group norms
build new relationship networks to implement change
Applications
– different settings and in a wide variety of groups
Organisational Consultants
This training is suited to developing organisational consultants who want to significantly expand their ability to appreciate and intervene with those they work with in fresh, creative, thoughtful, and original ways. Psychodrama emphasises the people dimension of organisational challenges, and you will become masterful at working with human dynamics as you work to produce effective organisational outcomes. You will become skilled in working with groups and larger organisational systems. You will develop the ability to appreciate the complex forces that influence how individuals and group’s function. You will develop a sophisticated skill set that enables you to work effectively an agent of organisational change.
Psychotherapists
Psychodrama offers a pathway for professional growth and recognition for people who work with human development in individuals, couples, and groups. It is an accredited psychotherapy training with the Psychotherapy Board of Aotearoa, New Zealand, allowing you to register as a psychotherapist after qualifying, a significant achievement in your professional journey.
Community development
Develop the ability to work effectively with the forces shaping the social world of any community. Assist the membership in taking effective action in service to its vision. Work creatively with polarised sub-groups, enabling dialogue across difference. Appreciate the sociometric forces at work and their impact on the functioning of the individuals that make up the social group.
Role Training to develop spontaneity
Role Training, as part of psychodrama training, focuses on enabling the full use of role-playing and its applications in various contexts such as supervision, pastoral care, therapy, counselling and teaching. A Role Training enactment is ideal for preparing a person for a meeting with a friend or family member, work colleague or boss or for new ventures of any sort.