The training workshops provide an opportunity to learn and practise psychodrama within a safe and supportive atmosphere. Each workshop has a theme, which acts as a general focus for the psychodrama sessions. In contrast to open weekends, where registered psychodrama trainers facilitate the sessions, on training weekends some or all of the psychodramas may be directed by registered diploma trainees from BIP or other psychodrama schools, under the guidance and supervision of an approved trainer.

Who are training workshops intended for?

• Diploma or certificate trainees from any psychodrama school.
• People who are considering training in psychodrama.
• People who are in related professions such as social care, therapy, mental health, education, community arts or personal development (this includes students and trainees in such professions).
• People who have a particular interest in psychodrama or the topic of the weekend.

Times:
Each weekend runs Saturday 9.30 - 18.30 hrs & Sunday 9.30 - 16.30 hrs. A weekend counts as 16 psychodrama training hours and can be credited towards the full diploma course, where relevant. Certificates of attendance are given to evidence continuing professional development, where needed.

Fees and accommodation:
£145. Weekend fees include lunches but not accommodation or other meals. Click here for a list of nearby accommodation in Birmingham.

This weekend will include psychodramas and also processing and teaching on principles of group dynamics and the psychodynamic and sociometric forces influencing group process. We will draw on the writings of Moreno, Yalom, Bion and other authors from the fields of group psychotherapy and groupwork.

Venue: Woodbridge House, Moseley, Birmingham. With Susie Taylor and Clark Baim.
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There is a defined underlying structure to psychodrama, and directors learn to work within these processes, techniques, conventions and boundaries. This weekend will include psychodramas, processing and an exploration of the key structural principles of psychodrama, including role analysis, "tracking back", the Hollander Curve, the elements of "classical" psychodrama and the Psychodrama Spiral (Goldman and Morrison).

Venue: Woodbridge House, Moseley, Birmingham. With Susie Taylor and Clark Baim.
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This weekend will include psychodramas, processing and an exploration of the use of psychodrama where the protagonist experiences regret, shame, guilt or remorse about their own past actions. Drawing on the use of psychodrama with offenders, we will look at how we approach and work with the protagonist's experience of their own destructive behaviour and how they may begin the process of accepting responsibility and managing their feelings of shame, guilt or remorse. The weekend will be partly facilitated by Alun Mountford, a BIP Associate Director who specialises in work with offenders. Susie Taylor and Clark Baim will assist.

Venue: Woodbridge House, Moseley, Birmingham.
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These psychodrama training workshops provide an opportunity for people to participate in psychodrama while living and working together in a residential setting. Typically, psychodrama trainees will be directing and having their work processed. Up to two trainees may have an external assessment of their directing. There are usually seminars on one or two of the evenings. With Susie Taylor and Clark Baim, run jointly with the Oxford School for Psychodrama and Integrative Psychotherapy.

Counts as 50 psychodrama training hours

• 11 - 15th November 2009
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• 29th April - 3rd May 2010
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• 11 - 15th November 2010
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Times: 5pm Thursday - 5pm Monday.

Fee: £485. Fee includes full board, accommodation and workshop fees.

Who for? Open to psychodrama diploma trainees only.

Venue: The ASHA Centre, Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire. A Georgian country house and inspirational conference / retreat centre set in the beautiful Forest of Dean.

These annually held multi-cultural events provide participants with the unique opportunity to learn about and participate in psychodrama with people from many countries. The cross-cultural psychodrama workshops take place in a different European or Mediterranean country each year, and include optional field trips, social and recreational activities in beautiful and inspiring settings. Open to all psychodrama trainees and practitioners from anywhere in the world. Please email us for more information or to book a place.

To find out more or to book a place, please Contact BIP with an expression of interest.