The Moreno Collegium

We are planning to run a "Leadership, groupwork and coaching training through the psychodrama method" in Ipswich in 2009. Please contact Peter or Elizabeth if this program might interest you. This program is contemplated in order to meet a perceived need in leadership development as well as improving coaching capacity and confidence in running group and community processes. The psychodrama method is a comprehensive way for individuals to extend, expand and refine their leadership capacities.

This training program will be a year long program and will be run in Ipswich. Each participant in this program will be actively and consciously engaged to develop themselves as a community and group leader, a conscious group worker, a creative facilitator, a reflective learner, a colleague and as a bold adventurer.

Training Program

The training operates on an ongoing cycle with participants 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 leader, group worker, coach and psychodramatist in your professional practice and larger life. By the end of the year you will have learned more of yourself as a leader, deep ways to work with individuals and groups and the psychodrama method. you will have 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 studying psychodrama and its realtewd components, role training, sociometry, sociodrama and group work 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 this training you will:

• Be coached and supervised in your practice as a leader, as a coach and as a learner. The focus will be on strengthening your existing capacities, overcoming some weaknesses and developing yourself as an active learner. 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.
• Be coached and supervised in your practice of the psychodrama method. The focus will be on your unique learning needs and encouraging you to extend yourself.
• 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 expand your imagination in relational situations. One of the ways you will do this is through the production of 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 and processes.
• Build on your previous learning, experience and role development. This will progress the development of a well-grounded understanding of the psychodramatic method and its strong relationship to leadership and learning.
• 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.

If this program intersts you:

If this program is of interest to you then please contact Peter or Elizabeth via email here. This program will require a minimum number to go ahead so your early interest wilkl ensure that it proceeds.

Dates: To be advised. Made up of weekday eveningsand a few scatted weekends.

Costs : To be advised but in the order of $2,000.

We are planning to run a "Leadership, groupwork and coaching training through the psychodrama method" in Ipswich in 2009. Please contact Peter or Elizabeth if this program might interest you. The psychodrama method is a comprehensive way for individuals to extend, expand and refine their leadership capacities.