Pre & Post Workshops
Pre-Conference Workshops
- The Vitality of the Psychodramatic Method
Led by Dr Max Clayton (Australia) - THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL
- A Sociodramatic Group Experience Led by Peter Felix Kellermann (Israel)
- THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL
Post Conference Workshops
- Exploring Relational Space
Attachment and inter-subjectivity – implications for psychodrama Led by Patricia O’Rourke (Australia) - The Aesthetics of Psychodrama
Exploring the use of artistry, the poetic, the lyrical and the dramatic
Led by Annette Fisher (Australia) - Difficult Conversations
How to hold them, when to fold them THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL
Led by Dr Antony Williams (Australia)
Workshops will be held at Newman College and the adjacent Queens College. Lunch and dinner are included in the workshop fee. Accommodation is an additional cost.
Pre-Conference Workshops
The Vitality of the Psychodramatic Method
Led by Dr Max Clayton (Australia)
This workshop will focus on the different aspects of the psychodramatic method that awaken vitality, imagination, flexibility and other desirable qualities in a living human being. We will do work to integrate sociometry, spontaneity theory, systems theory and role theory into our production of psychodrama sessions. While engaged in the important work of enlarging our perceptions and ability we want to sustain lightness and humour and land up with confidence that we are better equipped. The workshop includes teaching, demonstration, work as a producer, coaching and discussion. Be ready to produce small enactments.
Max is an experienced clinician, individual and group supervisor and trainer, working intensively in this field for many years. He has accrued significant skill and a depth of insight in teaching and training people in other cultures around the world. He is the author of several books on psychodrama. Max is a Psychodramatist; Trainer, Educator and Practitioner (TEP); and a Distinguished Member of ANZPA.
Dates and Times
Tuesday 22nd January 2008: 9.00am – 12.30pm; 2.30pm – 6.00pm; 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Wednesday 23rd January 2008: 9.00am – 12.30pm; 2.00pm – 4.30pm
Meals
The workshop provides lunch and dinner on Tuesday and lunch on Wednesday.
Fee
AUS $415 (GST included)
A Sociodramatic Group Experience
Led by Dr Peter Felix Kellermann (Israel)
THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL
In this workshop, we will look at various individual and group issues in the here and now and choose those which we would like to explore further. A variety of common experiences and social situations can thus be explored, including those that involve love and work, as well as conflict and reconciliation. While individual concerns may be explored with psychodramatic techniques, these will be generalized into more universal themes within a pronounced focus on ‘the group-as-a-whole’.
Other participants of the group will be invited to also get actively involved and share their similar issues. As we listen to the collective messages expressed, we might be able to enlighten one another with our different ethnocentric points of view and come to appreciate that this is what makes us human.
Peter Felix Kellermann, PhD, was born in Sweden and has lived in Jerusalem, Israel, with his family since 1980. He is a clinical psychologist and an international lecturer and trainer in psychodrama and sociodrama. He is presently working in AMCHA, a treatment center for Holocaust survivors and their families and at the International School of Holocaust Studies in Yad Vashem. He is a fellow of the ASGPP (Zerka T. Moreno award 1993) and was the elected chair of the psychodrama-section of IAGP between 1998-2000. He is the author of “Focus on Psychodrama” (1992) and of “Sociodrama and Collective Trauma” (2007), and co-editor of “Psychodrama with Trauma Survivors” (2000) as well as author of numerous articles in the fields of psychodrama, group psychotherapy and Holocaust traumatization. More information, including some of his papers, can be found at http://peterfelix.tripod.com/home/.
Dates and Times
Tuesday 22nd January 2008: 9.00am – 12.30pm; 2.00pm – 5.30pm
Wednesday 23rd January 2008: 9.30am – 12.30pm: 2.00pm – 4.30pm
Meals
The workshop provides lunch and dinner on Tuesday and lunch on Wednesday.
Fee
AUS $515 (including GST)
Post Conference Workshops
Exploring Relational Space
Attachment and inter-subjectivity – implications for psychodrama
Led by Patricia O’Rourke (Australia)
Relationship is the core experience through which we make meaning and give purpose to our lives. Our capacity for relationship is shaped within our family experience, especially our earliest attachment relationship. This experience shapes how we feel about ourselves, who we think we are and how we engage with the world.
In this one day workshop we will explore:
- how the capacity for relationship develops
- the nature of relational space
- our own relational capacity, our spontaneity and its effect on the relationship now
- the developmental nature of doubling and mirroring and their use in social atom/attachment repair
- concepts of inter-subjectivity, spontaneity and moments of change in psychodrama
- implications of this for participants’ professional practice
The workshop will be experiential. It will include mini lectures, demonstrations, vignettes and examples from the presenter’s and participants’ experience and practice. Some pre-reading is recommended and will be sent out prior to the workshop
Patricia is a Psychodramatist and a Child Psychotherapist. She currently works in the Departments of Psychological Medicine, and Infant and Perinatal Psychiatry at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide and as a consultant and trainer in private practice. She loves using psychodrama with individuals, groups and organisations to increase spontaneity and create change.
Dates and Times
Monday 28th January 2007 9.00am – 12.30pm, 1.30pm – 6.00pm
Meals
The workshop provides dinner on Sunday night and lunch on Monday.
Fee
AUS $195 (including GST)
The Aesthetics of Psychodrama
Exploring the use of artistry, the poetic, the lyrical and the dramatic
Led by Annette Fisher (Australia)
This workshop will explore the aspects of ourselves that enhance our ability to produce a drama. Through enactment participants will discover psychodramatic roles that are a source of spontaneity and creativity.
The aim is to activate our creative artistry and to bring increased liveliness to the work of the psychodramatist.
Participants will use a visual diary as a method of recording thoughts, ideas, feelings, imagination and images.
Annette Fisher is the Director and Founder of the Psychodrama Training Institute of the ACT; a Psychodramatist; a Trainer, Educator, and Practitioner; a Counsellor and Psychotherapist in private practice; and a visual artist. As a visual artist she has regular exhibitions and was artist in residence of a community woman’s group in 2007. Her art practice is expansive and includes painting, photography and digital moving images. Psychodrama informs the art and the art informs her practice of psychodrama.
Dates and Times
Monday 28th January 2008: 9.30 am – 12.30 pm, 2.30pm – 6.00pm, 7.00pm – 9.30pm
Tuesday 29th January 2008: 9.30 am – 12.30 pm, 2.00 pm – 4.00pm
Meals
The workshop provides dinner on Sunday night, lunch and dinner on Monday and lunch on Tuesday.
Fee
AUS $415 (including GST)
Difficult Conversations
How to hold them, when to fold them
THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL
Led by Dr Antony Williams (Australia)
The aim of a difficult conversation is that instead of ONLY wanting to persuade and get your way, you come to understand what has happened from the other person’s point of view, explain your own, share feelings and try to figure out a way to go forward together.
The workshop is relevant to those of us who in private life put off certain interactions when we can, and stumble through them when we must. It is also relevant in professional and workplace settings where as managers, colleagues, employees or consultants we can find it hard to talk frankly about poor performance, contempt, lateness, failure to keep contracts and other untoward organization behaviour.
Participates will gain familiarity with the Harvard Difficult Conversations model, including the “What Happened?” conversation, the “Feelings” conversation and the “Identity” dialogue. Managing a difficult conversation is essentially a practical endeavour, however; this means that though there will be an exposition of the model, most of the workshop will comprise ‘hands’ on practice and experiences conducted using action methods.
Prior to the workshop’s start, participants will be given a short booklet to read and some activities to complete. This process will cut down ‘explanation’ time and increase time for practice and role development.
Dr Antony Williams is a widely published author on action methods. Three of his books are translated into Finnish, Portuguese and Russian. He is a qualified Psychodramatist; a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner (TEP) and a Distinguished Member of the Australian and New Zealand Psychodrama Association. Antony is a partner in a small organisational consulting firm in Melbourne.
Dates and Times
Monday 28th January 2008: 9.30am – 12.30pm; 1.30pm – 4.30pm
Tuesday 29th January 2008: 9.30am – 12.30pm; 1.30pm – 4.30pm
Meals
The workshop provides dinner on Sunday night, lunch and dinner on Monday and lunch on Tuesday.
Fee
AUS $445 (including GST)
