The Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne (PIM) is a  world class training organisation in leadership, group psychotherapy, group work, role theory, role training, sociometry and psychodrama. Our training program includes a variety of events from which to choose as well as the ongoing Training Courses. Practitioners, trainers and senior trainees are offering individual and small group supervision, personal and professional development groups, psychotherapy, counselling, coaching, mentoring, staff development and organisational consultancy.  

The institute has at its core the sociometric principles of the founders of psychodrama, Dr. J. L. Moreno (1889-1974) and Zerka T. Moreno (1917-2016), with an emphasis on two-way mutual relationships, spontaneity and creativity. The Director of PIM is Sue Daniel.

The Program: Our workshops and activities are being held at the Hurstwood Clinic in South Yarra in 2025. The PIM Opening Day is on Saturday Afternoon, 22 February from 2.00-5.00pm. Afternoon tea will be served. Members of the Moreno Psychodrama Society, trainees and practitioners, friends and guests are welcome. There is also an Online Opening of the Institute on Tuesday Evening, 25 February from 7.30-9.30pm. The online program provides a range of activities and events for those living and working in other parts of Australia and Overseas. 
During 2025, there are two ongoing training groups which are run over 4 terms; Tuesday Evenings (online) and Thursday Evenings (in South Yarra). Included in the training program is a 4-Day Annual International Psychodrama Intensive in October, an open event for trainees, practitioners and local and overseas people.

Open Workshops
February: Sunday 23 February: ‘The Empty Chair Technique for Individual & Group Practitioners’.    
May: Saturday & Sunday, 3 & 4 May , ‘Ground Control to Major Tom’: A sociodramatic workshop for our turbulent times.
October: Friday-Monday, 10-13 October.  4-Day Annual International Psychodrama Intensive:
‘Role Reversal for Real’.

The experiential group ‘Onscreen’ – Explorations in virtual reality through Psychodrama continues on Mondays monthly throughout 2025. Other monthly programs include a Friday Lunchtime Reading Group and a Personal & Professional Development Group. 

The Psychodrama Newspaper, announces new events and newsworthy topics. The idea of this medium is to enable us to work spontaneously within our program adding to the published 2025 program. If you would like to be on our mailing list, send us an email.

For more information on our institute, see the full training program for 2025 on this site, and our Facebook page.   For all enquiries please contact our Administrator, Ted: (+61) 0410 536 791 or email 

Psychodrama is about mutual relationships and living in the moment (the ‘here and now’).  Making connections through our relationships is the catalyst for real change; through our relationships with people, animals and the physical world. Our aim is to promote individual and group health in our communities through the spontaneity and creativity of sociometry, sociodrama, role training and psychodrama. May we all flourish in 2025 in our work and day-to-day life.