Past Training Programmes – Wellington

Wellington: 5-7 August 2023. Trainer: Chris Hosking. This training workshop for intermediate and advanced trainees offers supervised practice and teaching.

Wellington: 12-16 April, 2023. Trainers: Vivienne Thomson, Bev Hosking. This 4-day residential psychodrama training workshop aims to bring about a greater knowledge and integration of the theory and practice of psychodrama, sociometry, role training, sociodrama and group work.

Wellington. The Psychodrama Director as Improviser. 28-30 October 2022. Trainers: Bev Hosking, Martin Putt. 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.

Wellington: 18-22 May, 2022. Trainers: Vivienne Thomson, Bev Hosking. This 4-day residential psychodrama training workshop aims to bring about a greater knowledge and integration of the theory and practice of psychodrama, sociometry, role training, sociodrama and group work.

Wellington. Sociodrama Training. 23-25 September 2022. Trainers: Jenny Hutt, Bev Hosking. This workshop offers an opportunity to examine your experiences of coming to grips with racism.

5 Thursday early evenings: This series of group work training and supervision sessions will provide an opportunity to explore and integrate the theory and practice of group work. Trainer: Bev Hosking

Wellington Sociodrama Training. 24-26 September 2021. Trainers: Jenny Hutt, Bev Hosking

This mixed-level on-going training group will focus on the theory and practice that are essential to the psychodrama method: including – psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry, role training and group work. Trainers: Bev Hosking, Chris Hosking

Wellington: 19-23 May 2021. Trainers: Vivienne Thomson, Bev Hosking. This 4-day residential psychodrama training workshop aims to bring about a greater knowledge and integration of the theory and practice of psychodrama, sociometry, role training, sociodrama and group work.

Wellington: 5 Tuesday evenings: This series of group work training and supervision sessions will provide an opportunity to explore and integrate the theory and practice of group work. Trainer: Bev Hosking

Wellington: 26 -28 June, 2020. Trainer: Chris Hosking

Wellington: 31 July – 2 August 2020. Trainers: Jenny Hutt and Bev Hosking

Wellington: October 22-26, 2020. This 4-day residential psychodrama training workshop aims to bring about a greater knowledge and integration of the theory and practice of psychodrama, sociometry, role training, sociodrama and group work. Trainers: Bev Hosking, Vivienne Thomson.

Wellington: Begins 4 April, 2020. This mixed-level on-going training group will focus on the theory and practice that are essential to the psychodrama method: including – psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry, role training and group work.

Wellington: August 8, 2019. How are you going responding to the casual or not-so-casual racism that you encounter in different moments in everyday life? Trainer: Bev Hosking

Wellington: 13-15 September 2019. Race and racism are in the spotlight. Speakers, tweeters, film makers, writers, educators, shock jocks and demonstrators have race and racism in their sights. While awareness of unconscious bias, structural racism and white fragility may have grown, combative and polarised discourse has also ramped up. Leaders: Jenny Hutt, Bev Hosking.

Wellington: May 23-27, 2019. This 4-day residential psychodrama training workshop aims to bring about a greater knowledge and integration of the theory and practice of psychodrama, sociometry, role training, sociodrama and group work. Trainers: Bev Hosking, Vivienne Thomson.

Wellington: April 12-14, 2019. In this workshop we will give our attention to the dramatic, we will highlight ourselves as dramatists, artists and theatre lovers and weave this together in the what the psyche unfolds to us moment by moment. Trainer: Chris Hosking.

Wellington: Begins March 16, 2019. This mixed level on-going training group will focus on the theory and practice that are essential to the psychodrama method: including – psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry, role training and group work. Trainers: Bev Hosking, Chris Hosking, Martin Putt

Wellington: Begins March 6, 2018. Spontaneity can be thought of as a life force, a naturally arising state of being ready to meet the ups and downs of our lives that enables us to take the creative action. Trainer: Bev Hosking.

Wellington: April 13 – 15, 2018. The psychodrama method has at its heart the matter of action, of active productive participation. The theatre that Moreno created was envisioned to be a ‘safe retreat for unsuspected revolution, to offer unlimited possibilities for spontaneity research’. Trainer: Chris Hosking

Wellington: Begins Thursday, March 8, 2018. This series of group work training and supervision sessions will provide an opportunity to explore and integrate the theory and practice of group work. Trainer: Bev Hosking

Wellington: Begins July 21, 2018. The focus of this workshop series is the integration of theory and practice of the psychodrama method and encouraging independent practice. It is aimed at advanced trainees with more than 600 hours of training. There is a limit of six trainees. Trainer: Bev Hosking.

Wellington: July 27-29, 2018. Trainers: Jenny Hutt and Bev Hosking. What have you discovered so far about finding firm ground in working relationships? This includes firm ground for yourself, and your clients finding it with each other? Even with many personal and professional experiences to draw on, some situations may still perplex you, need further exploration, and call for you to refine or develop your approach.

Wellington: 15-17 July, 2022. Trainer: Chris Hosking. This 3-day psychodrama training workshop aims to bring about a greater knowledge of the theory and practice of psychodrama and will involve teaching and supervised practice.

23 June 2017: What does working with people from cultures other than your own require of you? Perhaps, interest, inquiry, inter-cultural learning as well as cultural self-awareness. It may also involve developing your ability to stay with yourself in the unknown, and finding ways to be and to be effective when strong cultural influences and intercultural dynamics are present.

Many of these events will involve the psychodrama method and some will use other active group work approaches to assist us to navigate the challenges in personal and social life.

24 March, 2017: The training is experiential and interactive, and participants will learn about the application of this method in their personal and professional life. This training will assist those in leadership roles to develop their abilities.