Presented by Rob Pramann, PhD, ABPP, TEP
Enrollment limited to 25 participants per session
Workshop Description
The 2026 Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy Training Series provides an immersive and experiential learning environment for clinicians who want to strengthen their skills in action methods. Each Saturday session offers a full day of training that integrates demonstration, practice, observation, discussion, and group process. Participants learn through direct experience with warmups, psychodramatic and sociodramatic enactments, structured exercises, and reflective processing. The method is taught in action so that participants can observe and practice the approach as it naturally unfolds.
This training emphasizes attention to the client’s actual process. Psychodrama supports authentic expression, relational clarity, and creative problem solving by meeting clients where they are rather than asking them to adapt to a rigid method. The training reflects this same philosophy. While each session has a planned theme, the specific direction of the work is shaped by the needs and interests of the group as they emerge throughout the day.
Participants will engage with the foundational elements of psychodrama, including roles, warm up, action, sharing, and processing. They will also deepen their understanding of sociometry and group psychotherapy as essential components of the method. Each session includes at least one hour devoted to ethical considerations relevant to experiential and action based clinical work. Whether attending a single workshop or the full series, participants will gain practical tools, increased spontaneity, and a richer appreciation for the power of action methods in clinical practice.
Goals
The training series is designed to help participants:
- Develop confidence and facility in the use of role-playing interventions in their many clinical applications.
- Strengthen skills in psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy through direct experience and guided practice.
- Increase personal and professional awareness, development, and growth through active engagement in the method.
- Understand and apply ethical principles that support safe and effective experiential work.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
- Develop proficiency in attending to the client’s actual process rather than asking the client to adapt to a method.
- Identify and apply psychodramatic methods and interventions that can be used with individuals, couples, families, and groups.
- Describe and explain the five instruments of psychodrama: stage, protagonist, director, auxiliary egos, and audience.
- Describe and explain the three phases of a psychodrama session: warm up, action, and sharing, as well as the processing phase used in training.
- Assess interpersonal connections and subgroup dynamics within a larger group and use sociometric interventions to address them.
- Participate effectively in various psychodramatic and sociodramatic roles, including protagonist, auxiliary ego, enactor, director, and group member.
- Use psychodramatic and sociodramatic techniques with creativity, adequacy, and spontaneity.
- Practice psychodramatic techniques in structured exercises in dyads, small groups, and the full group.
- Design and plan interventions that address relational trauma repair.
- Apply psychodramatic methods and interventions in an ethical and professional manner within one’s own clinical setting or intended area of practice.
Workshop Schedule
- February 21, 2026: Introduction: Psychodrama and the Celebration of Life, “To everything there is a season”
- March 21, 2026: Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy: The Triadic System, “The Three Legs of the (S)Tool”
- April 11, 2026: Psychodrama and Creativity, “Background, Demonstration, & Applications Ready-To-Use”
- April 25, 2026: Psychodramatic Roles: The Auxiliary Ego and Role Playing, “Psychodrama Short and Simple: Role Reversal and the Auxiliary”
- May 23, 2026: Psychodramatic Roles: The Double and Doubling, “Touching the Heart: Developing Deep Empathy Directly”
- August 22, 2026: Starting and Stopping in Psychodrama: Warming Up and Sharing, “Starting and Stopping, How to.”
- September 26, 2026: Exploring Sociometry, “Critical Group Connections”
- October 24, 2026: Psychodramatic Roles: The Director and Directing, “Directing Plain and Simple and ….”
- November 21, 2026: Bibliodrama and Psychodramatic Encounter with God, “Touching (or Being Touched by) the Divine”
All workshops are held on Saturdays from 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
About the Presenter
Rob Pramann, PhD, ABPP, TEP, is a board-certified psychologist with more than three decades of experience in psychotherapy, supervision, teaching, and psychodrama training. He is certified in Group Psychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology and is a Trainer, Educator, and Practitioner through the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy. Dr. Pramann serves as Clinical Director at the Christian Counseling Centers of Utah and directs CCCU’s Training in Psychodrama.
He is an Adjunct Instructor in Psychiatry at the University of Utah School of Medicine and a Mental Health Professional with the Utah Critical Incident Stress Management Team. Dr. Pramann is a Fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, a former Executive Editor of the Journal of Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy, and the current Cochair of the ASGPP Research Committee. He is the recipient of the 2020 David A. Kipper Scholar’s Award and the 2024 ASGPP Executive Council Award as part of the Research Committee.
Dr. Pramann’s psychodrama practice is wide ranging and includes clinical work with individuals, couples, families, outpatient and inpatient groups, and residential treatment programs. He has applied psychodrama in staff development, organizational consultation, spiritual retreats, Bibliodrama, community performance work, and trial preparation. His teaching and training experience spans graduate and undergraduate courses, professional workshops, and work with diverse clinical and community populations.
Location
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
8575 S 700 E, Sandy, UT 84070
Downstairs in “The Quad”
Registration Fees
- Single Session: $130.00 (6 CE Hours)
- Four Sessions: $475.00 (24 CE Hours)
- Five Sessions: $570.00 (30 CE Hours)
- Entire Series (Nine Sessions): $900.00 (54 CE Hours)
- Students: $50.00 per session (with documentation of student status from school official)
- Bring a Friend: Free for their first session!
All registrations include continental breakfast and lunch.
Payment Methods
For Further information
Rob Pramann, PhD ABPP: utahssccc@aol.com
Utah Psychological Association