Pre and Post-Conference Workshops 2025
Pre-Conference workshops
- Hamish Brown and Cinnamon Boreham: What Truly Matters
- Jenny Hutt and Bev Hosking: Consolidating Intercultural Work
Post-Conference workshops
Pre-Conference Workshop 2025
What Truly Matters
Hamish Brown and Cinnamon Boreham
Maximum participants: 16
Workshop Fee :: $600.00
Workshop Times
Tuesday 14 January 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday 15 January: 9:30 to 4:00 pm
Description
Manaakitanga is the brightest thread woven through the fabric of relationships, binding people together in mutual respect, generosity, and support. The practice of Manaakitanga builds mana in the other and the self; this, in turn, enhances the well-being of our community.
Moreno’s vision is a call to action, a belief that our survival as a species hinges on our collective ability to establish systems that prioritise our humanity. For him, what truly matters is social cohesion, summed up in the book title, Who Shall Survive? In Aotearoa, New Zealand, we face the challenge of existing within a cultural context that invites us to acknowledge our differences while recognising what binds us together. Centrally, this challenge is one of role reversal.
This pre-conference workshop begins with the premise that group psychotherapy calls us to the edge of the dual experiences of belonging as a collective and expressing our unique experience as individuals. In the spirit of manaakitanga, we will use Moreno’s method to examine the forces that lead to increasing social cohesion and those that lead to a decrease.
Together, we will discover what truly matters, producing the psychodramas we anticipate best serve our development as a group. Within whānau (family) and whanaunga (extended whānau), sits Au (the individual).
Workshop Leaders
Hamish Brown is a TEP, Psychodramatist and a Psychotherapist. He has extensive experience working with individuals, couples and groups over the last 25 years working in private practice in Auckland. He has been training people in group work since 1997. Hamish grew up in the Kaikohe during the period of the Māori language revival and has participated in teaching Psychodrama at Puketeraki Marae over the last 7 years. As Tangata Tiriti he is working to appreciate the different cultural forces that influence and inform him in his belonging within Aotearoa.
Cinnamon Boreham is of Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, and Kai Tahu descent. She has lived in Dunedin most of her adult life, is the mother of three, an avid home renovator and artist. She is an AANZPA Psychodramatist and a registered PBANZ Psychotherapist. She holds a BA majoring in community family studies having trained within both Te Ao Māori (Te Korowai Aroha o Aotearoa) and mainstream (University of Otago). Cinnamon has been working in the Dunedin community within the not-for-profit sector for the past 29 years in a wide range of roles. For 10 years, she was the Manager of Stopping Violence Dunedin. Cinnamon was appointed to the Psychotherapy Board of Aotearoa New Zealand three years ago by the Minister of Health. She is currently practicing as an independent psychotherapist and group leader, specialising in areas of trauma and abuse.
Pre-Conference Workshop 2025
Consolidating Intercultural Work
Jenny Hutt and Bev Hosking
Maximum participants: 16
Workshop Fee :: $600.00
Workshop times
Tuesday 14 January 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Wednesday 15 January 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
Description
As we work with individuals, groups and organisations of diverse cultures, the way we think about the context and purpose of our efforts needs attention and ongoing refreshment.
Being open, relational and willing to learn is a good foundation for intercultural functioning. There are many pertinent perspectives which help consolidate the work, including those gained through lived experiences and cultural contact, cultural self-awareness, historical awareness, and growing an awareness of the unconscious ‘moves’ and blind spots of dominant groups.
This workshop is for people actively engaged in intercultural relations in their work who are wanting to refresh perspectives, tackle role conflicts, build their capacities and further consolidate or refine their orientation to this work.
A range of approaches will be used including sociometric activities, sociodrama, role training and discussion of practice. Reference will be made to contemporary literature.
A shorter presentation and panel discussion will be offered within the conference itself for a wider range of participants.
Workshop Leaders
Jenny Hutt is a trainer, coach and facilitator and also enjoys writing and painting. She is a Sociodramatist, Trainer Educator, Practitioner (AANZPA), Director of Training at the Melbourne Campus of Psychodrama Australia, and works as an Associate with the Burbangana Group, an Aboriginal owned and managed consulting company.
Bev Hosking is a counsellor, supervisor and trainer who lives in Wellington Aotearoa New Zealand. She is a Role Trainer; Trainer Educator, Practitioner (AANZPA); and Executive Director of the Wellington Campus of Psychodrama Aotearoa New Zealand (PANZ). For many years Bev has been interested in exploring a range of creative approaches that promote social dialogue and the formation of cohesive communities.
Jenny and Bev have conducted a range of workshops about belonging and social cohesion, intercultural work and responses to racism. They share a keen interest in sociodrama as a ‘third space’ (outside the home and the public arena) where participants can consider their experiences, have room to find out what they feel and think and develop resourcefulness for their ongoing work.
Post-Conference Workshop 2025
Creating moments of optimism for everyday life: a focus on Role Training
Chris Hosking
Maximum participants: 14
(workshop full)
Workshop times
Monday 20 January 10:00 am – 5.30 pm and 7:00 pm – 8.30 pm
Tuesday 21 January 10:0 am – 4:00 pm
Description
Role training is an effort to help us perform adequately in future situations. It is a method of learning that aims to bring about a rise in the spontaneity level of an individual and combine this with practice of a new expression.
Making an apparently minor change in an area of our functioning which we recognize as a role or part role, can result in a ripple effect in a larger sphere or system. Role training focuses on the development of one aspect of a role, but has in its larger view the transformation of the groups and culture in which we live.
In this workshop we will review in detail the steps in the role training method, practice the conduct of a session and experience being a protagonist. The learning will be experiential and participants can expect to be actively involved in all aspects of this group method.
Workshop Leader
Chris Hosking is a Psychodramatist and TEP AANZPA. Currently living in New Zealand she travels to conduct workshops in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Vietnam and Greece. Additional interests include her involvement in several not-for-profit organisations (NGO’s) in South East Asia and the innovative contributions they can make to civil society.
Post-Conference Workshop 2025
The Drama of the Unfinished Self
Rollo Browne and Bona Anna
Maximum participants: 18
Workshop times
Monday 20 January 9.30 am to 4.30 pm
Tuesday 21 January 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Description
Psychodrama is essentially a theatre for self-enactment. No matter the drama, we continually enact our ‘self’. The evolution of the self is something Moreno did not really define beyond the stages of the double, the mirror and role reversal, so we must work it out for ourselves. But it is clear in his Invitation to an Encounter (1914), that he considered our creation as a self to be unfinished: “More important than the evolution of creation is the evolution of the creator”. The self then can be said to be our greatest and ongoing creation. This requires that we learn to live in the here and now and maintain receptiveness and spontaneity in the face of the unknown.
One of the most potent tests of our ability to live freely in the unknown is as a psychodrama director, often not knowing what will emerge or how to respond during an enactment. In this regard, we must grapple with two major life forces that Max Clayton identified as being in continual conflict: the drive to be safe and the drive to grow. This training workshop is about where you are in the drama of the unfinished self, what supports you, what holds you back and what is needed to live in the unknown as a psychodrama director or group member.
Rollo Browne is a trainer at the Sydney Campus of Psychodrama Australia. He is a sociodramatist, trainer and supervisor. He has been on staff at Sydney Campus for over 20 years, training professionals to be psychodramatists at all levels. His work spans leadership training, organisational development and executive coaching. For the past 20 years he has applied Morenian methods in his consulting and facilitation work.
Dr Bona Anna (TEP) is a psychodramatist and trainer at the Sydney Campus of Psychodrama Australia. She has a background in education and currently works as an academic researcher in Australia. Bona is inspired by the groundbreaking work of Joseph Levi Moreno, the founder of psychodrama, finding many useful applications in contemporary work and life situations.