Remembering the Queensland Training Institute of Psychodrama

The Queensland Training Institute of Psychodrama (QTIP) has been for many years the local Institute accredited to run Psychodrama, Sociodrama, Sociometry, and Role training in Queensland. This accreditition was provided by the Australian and New Zealand Psychodrama Association Incorporated (ANZPA) through their Board of Examiners. QTIP went through two ANZPA Institute reviews as part of the process of keeping their acceditation and maintaining demonstrably high standards. There were also many trainers who ran programs through the Institute from all parts of Australia and New Zealand and other parts of the world.

The Institute has been regularly running year long training programs in psychodrama and often smaller weekend series as well. This has been going on for over 20 years. Prior to that, training in Queensland was offered through the Psychodrama Association of Queenland Inc.

The Institute has been staffed by people who are passionately committed to psychodrama as a significant force for life in the world. All the trainers have had other full time occupations and concerns such as work, families and businesses. So the Institute, while a significant source of stimulation, challenge and pleasure, has mostly operated as a voluntary organisation with significant contributions of time being the main input from staff. Programs mostly paid for themselves though at times it seemed as though the whole process was being subsidised by one or other trainer. Seeing the value of the training in people's lives made this process manageable.