December 7 → 10, 2023

WAIHEKE ISLAND
Aotearoa-New Zealand

PARTNERSHIPS IN PLAY

Exploring awareness in relationships 
through Psychodrama and Physical Theatre

with

Zsófi Kigyóssy & Giovanni Fusetti

A PLAYFUL JOURNEY OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Welcome to a highly experiential and playful group of personal development in which the Psychodrama Approach and Physical Theatre will dance together to provide a unique experience of emotional awareness and embodied spontaneity.

The focus of the group will be on relationships and partnerships.

Both individuals and couples are welcome, as well as anyone wishing to explore a partnership in their life (friends, work colleagues, family members…).

When two people/individuals engage with each other, they are well more than two! The psychodrama approach sees relationships as a fascinating field of human interactions in which a variety of roles are engaged, each of them manifesting different desires and needs, potentials and dilemmas, complicity and conflicts. 

The language of theatre allows these roles to be explored in a playful and embodied way, facilitating insights and awareness, personal process and further understanding of the nature of the relationship. The play of these roles reveal their fundamental vital drives as well as their unique wisdom, providing precious insights in the process of exploration, amplification and integration of the amazing theatre of our Psyche.

The workshop is open to anyone wishing to engage in a quest of personal awareness and emotional awakening through role playing and theatrical games, within the context of a psychodrama group. Welcome to the theatre of relationships!

THE APPROACH

The pedagogical approach integrates the practice and the experience of the two facilitators.

Psychodrama proposes a journey of emotional awareness and creative transformation of one’s own psychic structure and life through the re-enactment of inner and outer life scenarios. In this sense it is a highly theatrical therapeutic practice, in which the person stages (directs) a scenario of their life using the group both as cast and as audience of the play.

Physical Theatre provides a set of exercise, games and playful techniques that support the embodiment of the different roles, thus encouraging a deeper experience of the process. The result is a deep artistic and emotional work, involving the body in a dynamic of play, spontaneity,
Theatre artists will discover a fun way to work on themselves with psychological depth and theatrical delight.

If you wish to know more about Psychodrama you can visit https://www.zso.fi/

Zsófi Kígyóssy is a Board Certified Psychodramatist, Sociometrist and Group Therapist trained in Hungary and in the USA, a registered Psychodramatist with AANZPA and Psychotherapist with PBANZ in New Zealand. She runs personal development groups and works with individuals and couples in Wellington.  By living on three different continents she has gained multicultural experience to see how psychodrama works in different cultures. She has been amazed how much interaction and connection can facilitate healing and bring quality change to one’s life. 

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PRACTICALITIES

SCHEDULE
Thursday 7th Dec: 2pm to 8:00pm
Friday 8th Dec: 9:30am to 6pm
Saturday 9th Dec 9:30am to 6pm
Sunday 10th December: 9:30 am to 6pm

LOCATION
104 Margaret Reeve Lane
Okoka Bay, Waiheke Island
Aotearoa-New Zealand
 

ENROLLMENT

Application process
To apply to the workshop please e-mail a letter of motivation to Zsófi to zsofi.counselling@gmail.com, sharing the essence of your story, vision, dream, desire, fear or un-explicable intuition that leads you to this workshop.

Please mention in your letter your previous experience in the field of personal development, psychotherapy and other relevant practice of emotional awareness, as well your previous experience in the field of theatre, if any.
If you wish to apply to this workshop as partners (couple, friends, family members, colleagues…), please send an individual motivation letter for each of you.

Once the application is accepted, applicants can confirm their enrollment by sending a NZ $400 deposit. Please note that in case of cancellation the deposit is NON-REFUNDABLE in case of cancellation.

Once accepted, places will be given in order of arrival.

The workshop is confirmed once the minimum number of 8 PARTICIPANTS is reached.
The maximum number of participants is 16.
Once the 16 places will be assigned, a waiting list will be set up, in case someone will abandon.

Application Deadline: 1st November 2023

TUITION
Early Bird Discount: NZ $900. If full payment is made by 15th October, 2023
Full Price: NZ $1.100. If full payment is made after 15th October, 2023

THE TUITION INCLUDES ACCOMMODATION IN A COMMUNAL ROOM in MARAE STYLE AND ALL MEALS (from Thursday Lunch to Sunday Lunch). Participants will share some of the tasks involved in the running of the logistics of the workshop and the preparation of the meals. Please let us know if you have any special food requirements.
It is also possible to camp on the property.
For those who prefer to find an autonomous accommodation in the area, the tuition will be NZ $800 – NZ $1.000, including meals and coffee breaks.

For further information about the content of the workshop you can contact

Zsófi Kigyóssy at zsofi.counselling@gmail.com

or Giovanni Fusetti at giovanni.fusetti@helikos.com

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PHOTO CREDITS
Picture n.1: Joan Miro, The Garden (1925)
Picture n.2: Joan Miro Blue (1961)
Picture n.3: Joan Miro : Figures and dog in front of the Sun, 1949