Working with Creativity and Spontaneity at Our Core
Creativity and spontaneity are essential capacities for effective practice in the helping professions. They enable practitioners to respond in the moment with, flexibility, and purpose to the complex and evolving situations encountered in therapeutic, organisational, and community settings. In psychodrama, spontaneity refers to the ability to meet both familiar and new situations in the moment, with openness and choice, rather than relying on habitual or fixed responses that may limit effectiveness.
J. L. Moreno, the founder of psychodrama, viewed spontaneity as fundamental to healthy functioning—personally, relationally, and socially. This orientation invites practitioners to work in ways that are attuned to context, including social systems and culture, while staying connected to their own humanity. It includes creativity and the capacity to engage with purpose and integrity in everyday professional practice.
Psychodrama provides a range of practical, embodied methods that actively support the development of spontaneity. Through dramatic enactment, these techniques create conditions for new perspectives, roles, and responses to emerge for both practitioners and clients. Spontaneity is a key indicator of growth, resilience, and wellbeing, and is commonly experienced as increased vitality, adaptability, and relational connection. Participants will engage experientially with these methods and reflect on their relevance for their own professional development, clinical effectiveness, and work with individuals and groups. At its heart, this workshop presents the essential stance of the psychodramatic practitioner: working as a therapeutic guide who supports our warming up to creativity, connection, and purposeful action.
Facilitators
Elizabeth Synnot
Elizabeth Synnot, AANZPA Psychodrama Trainer Educator and Practitioner, LL. B, M Soc Sci. Elizabeth has been training in psychodrama methodology for over 30 years. She lives in Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. As a young adult she visited India two times during her university holidays. She has been trained to get alongside your values and cultural influences. She is commitment to work with Aruna Gopakumar on this psychodrama training project into the future.
The Bengaluru Psychodrama Workshops Series
What is Psychodrama Training?
Psychodrama training is relevant for people interested in enlivening personal, interpersonal and group functioning in many fields. It emphasises a systems approach to living. This training is suited to professionals who want to significantly expand their ability to appreciate and intervene with those they work with, in fresh, creative, thoughtful and original ways. You will learn about psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry and role training. Applications of Psychodrama methods can be found in many different fields including management, training, education and therapy. Psychodrama provides a structure that assists you developing your ability to relate effectively to others and to the unfolding process of your life.
There will be four psychodrama training workshops in Bengaluru offered by trainers from AANZPA (The Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association) in July, August and December 2026. These workshops will introduce participants to the fundamentals of psychodrama practice. The deeply felt experience of the method enables integration of learning with the theory and philosophy of psychodrama.
The four workshops:
- Psychodrama with Children and Families
- Foundations of Sociometry
- Transforming Childhood Patterns of relating that no longer serve us: Psychodrama Training
- Working with Creativity and Spontaneity at Our Core: Psychodrama Training
If you sign up for :
- Any 2 workshops – Investment : Early Bird Rate – Rs. 39,085 (all inclusive , for first 10 registrations) | Regular Rate – Rs. 42,745 (all inclusive)
- All 4 workshops – Investment : Early Bird Rate – Rs. 73,280 (all inclusive , for first 10 registrations) | Regular Rate – Rs. 85,495 (all inclusive)