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, processing and theoretical and practical input about the transgenerational transmission of unresolved trauma and loss within families and societies. We will draw from the work of renowned French Psychodramatist Dr. Anne Ancelin Schützenberger.
Venue: Woodbridge House, Moseley, Birmingham. With Susie Taylor and Clark Baim.
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This weekend will include psychodramas and also processing and teaching on the therapeutic principles of working with unresolved trauma and loss. We will consider key issues of safety and containment, liaison with other services, and also useful models of working psychodramatically with trauma, such as Dr. Kate Hudgins' Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM).
Venue: Woodbridge House, Moseley, Birmingham. With Susie Taylor, Clark Baim and Zoli Figusch.
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This weekend will include psychodramas and also processing and teaching on the therapeutic principles shared by cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and psychodrama. We will explore how CBT theory and techniques can usefully inform psychodrama practice, and vice versa.
Venue: Woodbridge House, Moseley, Birmingham. With Susie Taylor and Clark Baim.
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This weekend will include psychodramas, theoretical input and processing. We will consider and practise ways in which psychodrama can be adapted for one-to-one working in a range of contexts.
Venue: Woodbridge House, Moseley, Birmingham. With Susie Taylor and Clark Baim.
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This weekend will include psychodramas, theoretical input and processing. We will consider how psychodrama can be used in working with children and adolescents, and how such work can be integrated with family work and multi-agency working. This workshop will be facilitated by diploma trainee Rajita Rajeshwar, in collaboration with Susie Taylor and Clark Baim. Rajita has focused in recent years on work with children, young people and families in social work, NHS and community settings.
Venue: Woodbridge House, Moseley, Birmingham. With Susie Taylor and Clark Baim.
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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 seminars on one or two of the evenings.

With Susie Taylor and Clark Baim, run jointly with the Oxford Psychodrama Group.

Who are they for?
Open to psychodrama trainees and people with some experience of psychodrama who are considering training in psychodrama.

Times: Thursday 5pm until Monday 5pm.

Hours of credit: A residential event counts as 50 psychodrama training hours.

7-11th May 2009

• Fee for this workshop: £450. Fee includes full board, accommodation and workshop fees.
• Venue for the May 2009 workshop: Fawley Court, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. A beautiful 17th C. historical house and country estate, designed by Sir Christopher Wren. There are many acres of parkland beside an idyllic stretch of the Thames that has remained unchanged for 150 years. It is a very special place and participants frequently comment on this being an ideal setting for a psychodrama retreat.

12th - 16th November 2009, 29th April - 3rd May 2010 and 4th - 8th November 2010

• Fee for residentials, from November 2009: £485. Fee includes full board, accommodation and workshop fees.
• Venue for residentials, from November 2009: 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.

Information about the September 2009 event will be available in early 2009.
To find out more or to book a place, please contact BIP.