The Moreno Collegium

This Core Psychodrama Training is a year long program run in Brisbane. Each participant in this program is actively and consciously working to develop themselves as a Psychodrama group worker, a facilitator, a reflective learner, a colleague and as a bold adventurer.

Core Training Program

The Core training operates on an ongoing cycle with trainees enrolling and committing to the year of training. This experiential training uses a graduated and recursive learning cycle to deepen and integrate your role development as a psychodramatist in your professional practice and larger life. There is massive built in redundancy in the program. By the end of the year you will have learned more of the method and experienced yourself as part of a large number of individual and group experiences and taking up a wide variety of roles.

Group functioning and leadership

Good group functioning is essential to any form of leadership and becoming a psychodramatist requires proficiency in being a group leader. You will see different forms of group interventions modeled. You will try your own and write and reflect on all of them. Within these group experiences you will be encouraged to try different responses. You will be encouraged to actively take different types of leadership. You will actively engage with others cooperatively in different ways. You will encourage others to do likewise. You will find different ways to recognise both individual and group progress and development. To this end you will learn a great deal about yourself and how you function in groups with others. You will learn how you function under stressful as well as relaxed times. You will learn how to maintain adequate thought, feeling and action in easy as well as tough times. Unlike in the saying and song "When the going gets tough the tough do more than ‘get going'". They get thoughtful and passionate as they get going.

Reflective learning practices

Written reflection and written tasks form an essential part of the learning program. Participants are expected to use writing as part of their ongoing learning process. The writing is not an evaluation tool it is a learning and reflection tool. Writing is seen as a powerfully integrative tool for developing your own ideas and understanding from experiences.

In Core training you will:

• Be coached and supervised in your practice of the method. The focus will be on your unique learning needs and encouraging you to extend yourself. This supervision often takes the form of coaching you in the moment as you practice. It aims to be at your own level and attempts to have you recognise and consolidate previous learning. You are also encouraged to progress at your current learning edge.
• Read and integrate theory with action via practice, feedback critique, supervision, report writing and forming a peer group. Theory is taught through appropriate and timely reading, as required during practice and with short experiential input sessions.
• Learn to produce meaningful psychodrama and other enactments. You will integrate the use of specific psychodrama production techniques. You will try a wide range of group interventions techniques, processes .
• Build on your previous learning, experience and role development. This will progress the development of a well-grounded understanding of the psychodramatic method.
• Capitalise on your current professional identity. You will find ways to extend what you already know and do and at the same time finding overlaps and congruencies with psychodrama. This will assist you in trying out your learning in appropriate ways in your work and community environments.
• Consciously come to appreciate the connections between your training and the ANZPA Standards, which are considerable.

Core Psychodrama Training in Brisbane

This year the Core Psychodrama Training program is being run by Peter Howie and it is is a year long program run in Brisbane. It is expected that each participant in this program will be actively and consciously working to develop themselves as a Psychodrama group worker, a facilitator, a reflective learner, a colleague and as a bold adventurer.

Dates and times

The 2008 program will be run on Tuesday evenings and weekends. The weekends, except the last one, will run Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings. This is designed to give families and working people time to work and time to play and be with their familes and prepare get ready for work for work.

Venue

The programs will all run at 45 Clarence St, Coorparoo, Brisbane

The fee for the year is $1,945 incl GST. It is our policy to only accpet people for training who are up to date with previous fees or who have come to other arrangements.