Advanced Psychodrama Directing Intensive

Monday, August 10, 2026 – Friday, August 14, 2026 8:30AM – 5:30PM – 35 CE Hours

Cost: See Below Options

Directing Option: $1,150 Professionals | $800 students (this fee guarantees a directing opportunity)

Non-Directing Option – Cost: $850 (reduced cost option for those interested in attending without directing practice)

Location: Phoenix Center – 524 N. Providence Road Media, PA 19063

35 CE Hours for APA, NBCC, and PA social workers, counselors, MFTs, & Psychologists | 35 training hours provided towards experiential and psychodrama certifications.

(This workshop is included in the 2026 Trauma-Informed Psychodrama Training Program.)

About the Workshop

This psychodrama directing practice is designed for advanced psychodrama students, practitioners, and trainers-in-training to enhance their directing through a trauma-informed lens. This directing intensive will go beyond the basics and include instruction on advanced directing techniques including clinical role assignments, weaving unchosen topics/protagonists into a psychodrama, moments of multiple protagonists, involving audience members, directing auxiliaries, psychosociodrama, working with projective identification in psychodrama, and more!

Participants will have the opportunity to facilitate a group psychodrama and receive feedback from their peers and the trainer. Feedback will be provided based on the psychodrama certification competencies outlined by the ABE, as well as trauma-informed psychodrama considerations. Each participant will also have opportunities to be the protagonist and play auxiliary roles to learn psychodrama from the inside-out.

Basic psychodrama facilitation competencies will also be referenced including an understanding of group phases, the warming-up process, spontaneity-creativity theory, role theory, protagonist selection, contracting, scene setting, concretization, doubling, the mirror position, role reversal, soliloquy, directing auxiliaries and the audience, facilitating catharsis safely, facilitating closure/integration, containment, strength-based roles, trauma-informed principles in psychodrama, attending to issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in psychodrama, subroles of the director, and facilitating the sharing phase of a psychodrama session.

Prior Experience

While this is a training workshop, and training will be held as the priority, there will be a multitude of secondary opportunities for personal growth. The workshop tickets with directing practice are designed for advanced psychodrama students and certified psychodramatists. Participants are expected to have past experiential/psychodrama experience as a prerequisite for purchasing a ticket with directing practice, as well as a foundational understanding of psychodrama’s methodology. Tickets without directing practice are open to anyone, regardless of past psychodrama experience. This workshop will be attractive for anyone seeking to enhance their psychodrama facilitation skills – and especially for professionals with psychodrama experience seeking to more learn advanced directing techniques.

Professionals warming-up to complete their CP/TEP onsite exams will also find this workshop helpful as the trainer will provide feedback using the same competencies outlined for the CP/TEP onsite exams.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain at least two advanced psychodrama interventions for directing the protagonist
2. Identify at least two interventions for involving the audience in psychodrama
3. Describe at least two trauma-informed considerations for psychodrama directing

By purchasing tickets and registering for this event, you confirm that you agree with the Phoenix Center’s Informed Consent for Experiential Therapy Training.

To Register for this Workshop

Please complete Steps 1 and 2.  Registration is not confirmed until payment is received.

Step 1: Pay for the event by using our Paypal Payment System (you can enter a credit card as a payment option).

01234567891011121314151617181920	Professional Directing Option: 8/10/26-8/14/26 - Advanced Psychodrama Directing Intensive	1150.00 USD
01234567891011121314151617181920	Student Directing Option: 8/10/26-8/14/26 - Advanced Psychodrama Directing Intensive	800.00 USD
0123456789101112131415	Non-Directing Option: 8/10/26-8/14/26 - Advanced Psychodrama Directing Intensive	850.00 USD

Your eTicket will be emailed after payment to your PayPal email address.

Step 2: Fill out the registration form using the same email you used for Paypal.

Step 3: You will hear from us with a confirmation email (the same one you used for PayPal and registration) indicating your registration and information about the event in a few days. All materials will be directed to the same email address including your certificate.

Important Information

*Please note that this is workshop will include both didactic and experiential learning components. The experiential learning structures include demonstrations of psychodrama and other experiential processes which often include (optional) personal disclosures from participants. While personal growth is often a byproduct of experiential learning in psychodrama, the primary purpose of this workshop is training. If you are seeking a workshop for personal growth or seeking a professional training event that is entirely didactic (lecture/powerpoint), this is probably not the best workshop for you.

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No Conflicts of Interest or outside commercial support have been declared by the presenter or others involved in the program.

This workshop is designed primarily for psychologists, social workers, counselors, and therapists but other professionals may also find it helpful. The instruction designed at the intermediate level (though many new and advanced professionals may also find it helpful).

CE Program Policies and Procedures related to Refunds/Cancellations, Grievances, and Conflicts of Interest can be found here.

For the workshop schedule or other details or questions about the workshop, please contact us at Support@PhoenixTraumaCenter.com.

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Continuing Education (CE) Approval Statements relevant to this workshop:

• Continuing Education (CE) Approval Statements relevant to this workshop:
  • Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC (Lic. #004115) has been approved as a pre-approved provider of professional continuing education for social workers (Section 47.36), Marriage and Family Therapist (Section 48.36) and Professional Counselors (Section 49.36) by the PA State Board of Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists and Professional Counselors.
  • Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychologists (Lic. # PSY000215) to offer continuing education for psychologists.
  • Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7013. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC maintains responsibility for the program.