AANZPA Conference 2027
We invite you to attend the AANZPA Conference in Sydney, Australia.
13 - 17 January 2027
Acknowledgement
The AANZPA 2027 conference will be held on Gadigal Lands. We pay our respects to Elders, past present and emerging and honour their custodianship and sovereignty.
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Psychodrama: A Methodology of Freedom
Jacob Levi Moreno envisioned psychodrama as a methodology of freedom in that it emphasises the liberation of ourselves from our pasts, from old expectations and current limitations. In mobilising the five instruments (stage, protagonist, director, auxiliaries and audience) and the four universals (time, place, reality and cosmos), a psychodramatic enactment produces a surplus reality, a truthful illusion in all its light and darkness that is accepted as if it is real. The psychodrama stage thus becomes a place where an individual can be who they are more deeply and explicitly than they appear to be in everyday life. Psychodrama is liberation then in the sense that bringing out our deeper inner truth creates in us the living possibility of creating our own freedom.
“The living space of reality is often narrow and restraining, … [a person] may easily lose … equilibrium. On the stage … [the person] may find it again due to its methodology of freedom – freedom from unbearable stress and freedom for experience and expression. The stage space is an extension of life beyond the reality tests of life itself. Reality and fantasy are not in conflict. … The aim ... is not to turn the … [people] into actors, but rather to stir them up to be on the stage what they are, more deeply and explicitly than they appear to be in life reality.”
J.L. Moreno (Psychodrama First Volume: Fourth Edition, 1972:a-c)
“… this unfoldment of life in the domain of illusion does not work like a renewal of suffering, rather it confirms the rule: every true second time is the liberation from the first. … One gains towards … [one's] own life, towards all one has done and does, the point of view of the creator - the experience of the true freedom, the freedom from … [one's] own nature.”
Register my spot now
You can now register for the conference main days, the pre and post workshops and more via our Humanitix page - follow this link
Please arrange your accommodation at St Andrew's College directly with them via this link.
We have added other options on our Humanitix page in case you'd like to explore those.
Submit a Workshop Proposal
We invite to submit a workshop proposal aligns with the conference theme, Psychodrama: A Methodology of Freedom. (Workshop Proposal deadline: Friday 25 September, 2026)
Submit Your Workshop Proposal
Refund policy
We understand that changed circumstances may require you to cancel the conference and/or pre-conference and post-conference workshops.
- You will receive a full 100% refund for cancellation requests made on or before 20 December 2026 except for the Humanitix processing fee which is 2.5% + $0.50 per paid ticket, which is not refundable.
- From 21 December 2026 to 05 January 2027 inclusive, we will issue a 50% refund, minus any costs already incurred.
- From 06 January 2027, no cancellation refunds will be issued unless there are exceptional circumstances.
While we will do our best to minimise losses for both you and AANZPA, all refunds are at the discretion of the conference treasurer. For specific questions about payments or refunds, please email the conference registrar at: confregistrar@aanzpa.org
You can negotiate accommodation refunds directly with St Andrews College.