Intermediate
Training

Trainer:
Rollo Browne

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Venue: Hannaford Community Centre, 608 Darling Street, Rozelle
              with some weekends at
              The Earth Institute, 20 Clark Street, Crows Nest
Cost: $2,190 or $2,000 (early bird paid in full by February 17th), deposit $100

Course Description:
This course is designed to consolidate the command of psychodrama methods gained in first year training. The focus will be to deepen your understanding of Morenian theory and philosophy as it applies in the moment in group life and in producing dramas. Trainees will continue to develop their abilities in the application of psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry and role training in their work and life. This year you will extend your understanding of group work and be exposed to a range of experienced psychodramatists. The residential group workshop held in Stanwell Tops NSW is included in this group's curriculum.

This year you can expect to run a session from warm up, selection of the protagonist, enactment and sharing. By the end of the year you should be coming to a sense of your own identity as a group leader and how you might use psychodrama in your context. There will be further emphasis on reading and writing as part of the program. An outline of this year-long course below.

Trainees are expected to attend a Training Interview with Institute Staff at the beginning of the year.
Semester 1 Warm up. Developing the role of the producer.

Learning outcomes:
  1. Understand the concept of warm up.
  2. Understand the concept of spontaneity, creativity and cultural conserve.
  3. Understand Moreno's theory of the Canon of creativity.
  4. Describe and demonstrate different types of warm up - director directed/ group warm up.
  5. Describe the techniques for increasing the warm up throughout the session.
  6. Understand and demonstrate the use of a variety of therapeutic interventions.
  7. Producing a drama - from warm up to enactment to sharing.
    1. Choosing the protagonist.
    2. Interviewing the protagonist and stating the purpose of the drama.
    3. Identifying the action cue to produce the drama.
    4. Setting the scene.
    5. Making a role analysis of the protagonist.
    6. Using a variety of psychodramatic techniques to make clinical interventions.
    7. Changing the scene appropriately.
    8. Selecting and coaching the auxiliaries.
    9. Enabling a catharsis of abreaction and integration.
    10. Closing the drama.
    11. Conducting the sharing.
Role Theory.

Learning outcomes:
  1. Understand the concept of role, including the construct of feeling, thinking and action components of a role.
  2. To understand the development of roles and the three types of roles - psychosomatic, social and psychodramatic.
  3. To understand Moreno's theory of child development and its relationship to the psychodramatic techniques of doubling, mirroring and role reversal.
  4. Understand the concept of the social and cultural atom and the interactive systems of roles.
  5. Understand personality as a system of roles.
  6. To create a role diagram based on one's social atom.
  7. Ability to identify and name roles. To name roles and counter-roles and understand the relationship of these roles.
  8. Identify progressive, fragmenting and coping roles.
  9. To understand and define personal roles that are progressive or fragmenting using a role matrix.
  10. To demonstrate the use of the social and cultural atom to map changes in a client's role development over time.
  11. To direct a role training session.
Semester 2 Sociometry, systems thinking, sociodrama and group theory.

Learning outcomes:
  1. Understand the sociometric theory of Moreno as a way of viewing a system.
  2. Identify types of tele.
  3. Identify their sociometric position in the group.
  4. Identify the group theme.
  5. Describe in action the Sociometry of a group through spectrogram and locograms.
  6. Describe how links form with a group through dyads and triads.
  7. Understand the concepts of tele, finding the positive attractions, repulsions and neutral responses group members have toward each other.
  8. Describe and create an atmosphere of trust and safety.
  9. Observe and define the components of a working group.
  10. Describe the components of a stuck and anxious group.
  11. Understand the focal conflict model of group dynamics.
  12. Understand and describe a sociodrama.
Integration of psychodramatic theory and practice.

  1. Supervised practise.
  2. Directing a psychodrama session in accordance to the practical assessment of ANZPA Board of Examiners.
  3. Writing up the session in accordance to the practical assessment of ANZPA Board of Examiners.
  4. Residential group with Max Clayton and Rollo Browne.
Written Assignment: Completion by end of semester 2.

  1. Learning journal - roles developed throughout the year as:
    1. director
    2. auxiliary
    3. protagonist
    4. group member
  2. The social and cultural atom paper. Handout outlining this paper. This fulfils the first requirement of the ANZPA Board of examiners for accreditation as a psychodramatist and is passed by the institute.
Details Dates:
SEMESTER 1,
Term 1: 6 Mon nights, 1 Saturday, 1 Sunday
Sun 17th, 9.30am - 4.30pm February,
Mondays 7.00pm - 10.00pm 25th February, 3rd, 10th, 17th, 31st March, 7th April
Sat 5 April 10.30 - 5.00pm with Becky Ridge
"Psychodrama and the Body" This workshop is open to all ongoing trainees
and will take place at The Earth Institute, Crows Nest.

Term 2: 5 Monday nights, 3 Weekends
Mondays 7.00 pm - 10.00 pm 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th May, 2nd June,
Sat 24th May, 10.30 am - 5.00 pm, Sun 25th May, 9.30 am - 4.30 pm with Annette Fisher
"Clinical Interventions". This workshop is open to all ongoing trainees
and will take place at The Earth Institute, Crows Nest.
Sat 5th July, 10.30 am - 5.00 pm, Sun 6th July, 9.30 am - 4.30 pm with Peter Howie
"Personal and Professional Development". This workshop is open to all ongoing trainees
and will take place at The Earth Institute, Crows Nest.

SEMESTER 2,
Term 3: 5 Monday Nights
Mondays 7.00pm - 10.00pm 22nd, 29th September, 13th, 20th October, 3rd November

Term 4: 4 day Residential Fri 24th to Mon 27th October, Stanwell Tops residential
with Max Clayton and Rollo Browne,

Celebration evening: 6.30 pm - 8.30 pm, Friday 28th November,
Venue: The Earth Institute, 20 Clark Street, Crows Nest

Total Hours: 105 hrs
Venue: Hannaford Community Centre, 608 Darling Street, Rozelle
Cost: $2,190 or $2,000 (early bird paid in full by February 17th), deposit $100
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