PiI Training
- Home
- PiI Training
The Essence of PiI Training
The essence of PiI training is authentic self-work and belonging while developing adequate roles of a psychodramatist!! Trainees get to meet trainers who, as people are real, comfortable in their own skin, connected to their personal power and continuously working on themselves. The trainees experience through role modelling why it is so important for a psychodramatist to keep working in their own role development. Without putting in all the required self-work, reading, writing, working through the struggles of belonging, inclusivity and understanding how everything in life and nature is interconnected, the journey of becoming a psychodramatist remains incomplete. A true psychodramatist like Moreno, understands the wisdom behind including everyone, everything and the entirety of the universe!! At the end of their training therefore, every trainee not only becomes a robust psychodramatist but an inclusive and all-encompassing human being because they have experienced the same in their trainers!!
The Training Levels
The training program is designed with a level wise training curriculum in accordance to international standards while building in Indian components. This design helps the trainees develop the roles and learn the techniques required in a structured manner at each level in relation to the Indian context. All the action learning is continuously interwoven with the theory and philosophy of psychodrama. At their very core, the three levels of training mean the ongoing role development, skill development and personal development that is necessary to become a full-fledged Psychodrama Director (Psychodramatist).
Prathamaa – The first level of Auxiliary-Ego Certification
focuses on learning and developing Two-Way Empathy in our Being. Becoming an auxiliary ego in anyone’s drama is the first step towards embodying and enacting as closely as possible, an aspect, person or situation, as experienced by the protagonist. It is the first step towards being of service to another, where we learn to use our whole selves including our feeling world, sensations, thoughts and our bodies to mirror for the other what is important for them to see.
Madhyamaa – The second level of Psychodrama Assistant-Director Training,
is about getting more and more spontaneous and adventurous. It is about gradually finding one’s psychodramatist feet and practising directing others, using a myriad of psychodrama techniques relevant to one’s work.
Sampoorna – The final level of Psychodrama Director training
is about expansiveness and learning to direct groups. It is about getting in touch with the kind of audience one feels pulled for and the kind of themes on which the trainee would want to conduct workshops as there is personal resonance. Finally it is about finding one’s own style of working with a group and becoming confirmed in it.
Scope of Application
Once you get trained in psychodrama and sociodrama, the sky is the limit to its applications. From whichever background you come at present, you will find a scope of application. As a trainee you can choose any one of the following 5 areas of specialisation when you are in the third level of training which focus on learning to design warm up and run groups with themes and audiences of one’s specialisation.
- Psychotherapy (Counselors, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists)
- Education (School Teachers, Leaders, Teacher Trainers, Life Skills Facilitators)
- Social Work and Community Building (Social Workers, Capacity Building NGOs, Funding Agencies)
- Business (Corporate Leaders, Corporate Trainers, Leadership Coaches, L&D and HR Professionals)
- Wellness (Nurses, Doctors, Body Image Consultants, Theatre Artists, Wellness Coaches, Yoga Teachers, Gym Instructors)
Eligibility
- The program is open for either students or working professionals from varied fields like counseling, psychotherapy, social work, medical health, wellness, education, corporate training and business.
- The participant applying for the program should have attended at least 1 or 2 psychodrama workshops so that they have some understanding of what psychodrama is and why they are wanting to get trained in it.
- For choosing a specialisation, as mentioned above, the participant would need to have a relevant educational qualification and prior work experience in the same/relevant field of around 3 to 5 years as they want to specialise in.
- While completing the program, they would need to be working in their field of specialisation in order to complete their application hours.
Brochure
For further details regarding our process and components of training, curriculum, supervision, hours, evaluation and certification, please download the detailed brochure
Our PiI Trainers
Meenakshi Kirtane
Psychodrama Trainer, Mentor & Supervisor
Meenakshi Kirtane also known as Roohdaar, is a trainer, mentor, a supervisor and practicing psychodramatist and an experienced group therapist. She is the Founder Director of Maanas The Inside Story (MTIS) and Psychodrama in India (PiI). She is currently the first President (Honorary) of the forming Indian Psychodrama Association. She is also the person centered therapist for the past 23 years.
Sarita Shah
Psychodrama Trainer & Co-trainer
Sarita Shah is a practicing psychodramatist. She is also a co-trainer in PiI. She is the co-founder of Maanas The Inside Story. She is also a person centered psychotherapist.
Our Guest Trainers
Dr. Ron Weiner
Supervisor, Mentor & Sociodrama Trainer
Dr. Ron Wiener is a senior sociodrama trainer and former Honorary President of the British Psychodrama Association who gave him a life time achievement award. He has taught sociodrama and runs workshops across Europe and in Australia, Russia, China and America.
Diane Adderley
Sociodrama Trainer
Diane Adderley is a Senior Trainer in Sociodrama and a Psychodrama Practitioner She is also a practitioner and trainer of Playback Theatre, as both a conductor and actor. She is currently the Honorary President of the BPA.
Irina Stefanescu
Sociodrama Trainer
Irina Ștefănescu is a playful human with an M.Sc. in Chemistry, a trainer, coach, psychodrama and sociodrama practitioner. As a sociodramatist and action methods practitioner, Irina also volunteers with youth, children, and their teachers and runs practical workshops at national and international conferences.
Valerie Monti Holland
Sociodrama Trainer
Valerie Monti Holland is a Sociodrama Trainer for the BPA and currently serves on the BPA Executive Committee as External Relations Representative as well as on the Equality and Diversity in Action group.
Our External Examiners
Clark Baim
External Examiner
Clark Baim, PhD, is a Senior Trainer, Clinical Supervisor, and Psychodrama Psychotherapist (BPA, UKCP) based in the UK. He is Director of the Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama, former Honorary President of the British Psychodrama Association (BPA) and recipient of the BPA’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
