1807 Robinson Avenue, Suite 206, San Diego, California 92103, United States
Saturday & Sunday, July 12-13, 2025, 9 am- 5:30 pm
Exploring Loss & Relationship on the Karpman Drama Triangle through Psychodrama
Stephen Karpman examined how we unconsciously play different roles in our relationships as coping strategies learned in our childhoods to keep us safe. The three roles are: VICTIM-RESCUER-PERSECUTOR.
Both the Karpman Drama Triangle and Grief and Loss operate in our lives in a cycle. As we play each of the roles in the Triangle, we experience loss in a different way. As we cycle through loss toward healing, we are often caught in a role that is familiar but not helpful to us. The goal of forming and relying on healthy relationships requires both vulnerability and restructuring the Triangle to meet our needs more effectively.
Experience how psychodrama can help you identify a client's "home base"; discover effective ways to conceptualize how we move around the triangle during loss and learn strategies to move clients out of this unfulfilling dynamic.
Saturday & Sunday, September 13-14, 2025, 9 am - 5:30 pm
Awakening the Heart of Loving Kindness, Forgiveness, and Compassion
Entangled in the trance of unworthiness, we grow accustomed to caging ourselves in with self-judgment and anxiety. We will explore the parts of us that hold us back and those that nourish us in all our vulnerability and humanness.
The way out begins with accepting with forgiveness and compassion absolutely everything about us and our lives. In this workshop, we will explore how to regard all parts of ourselves with an open, kind and loving heart
Saturday & Sunday, November 8-9, 2025, 9 am- 5:30 pm
Sandplay and Psychodrama
Integral to Psychodrama is the concept of the warmup. Sandplay/Sandtray as a warmup to action offers a compelling way to allow unconscious material to come forward in the form of powerful symbols. These symbols often hold keys to our psyche that offer valuable information that can be explored in action through Psychodrama.
Both Sandplay and Psychodrama create a world of Surplus Reality where images can be understood through doubling, role reversal, concretization and mirroring in an action form of Jung’s Active Imagination, a meditation technique wherein the contents of one's unconscious are translated into new images and narratives.
Saturday & Sunday, March 8-9, May 17-18, July 12-13, 2025,
The underpinning of the therapeutic relationship is connection. Sociometry – the exploration of choices that connect or disconnect us - is the undercurrent and guide we utilize to move clients toward growth and change. Psychodrama is the clinical intervention to gain insight, explore affect and cognitions and role train new behaviors.
JL Moreno, the creator of Psychodrama, believed that the ability to access spontaneity and creativity is the essence of being human and the impetus for change in our lives. Come explore Action Methods and their use in moving clients forward in their therapeutic process. An emphasis is on practical action interventions clinicians can take with them and implement with individuals, couples and groups.
Concentration on the three phases of action (warm up, action and sharing) for creating a deeper connection in groups and families. Building safety in a group is the cornerstone of psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy. Interventions are tailored to creating the vulnerability that a safe place engenders.
This group is a closed training. Participants commit to all three sessions to build connection and safety with the same cohorts each group.
Psychodrama and Sociometry are appropriate for healthcare professionals as well as teachers, attorneys, psych techs, coaches, and other professionals who work with groups and families. Participants will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program directly back into their work with clients