Upcoming Workshops & Public Appearances
Join me for upcoming workshops, conference sessions and experiential learning opportunities exploring creativity, facilitation, youth participation, community development and the ways we relate to one another.
Whether you work with young people, facilitate groups, support communities or want to explore new possibilities in your own life, these events offer space to connect, learn and try something different.
October 2026
Facilitation Games Night: Camp Venture
14 October 2026 | 6:15–9:00 pm
Geelong, Victoria | Facilitation in Action Conference
What happens when community development becomes an adventure?
Camp Venture is a fun, engaging and gamified community development experience that helps groups move from silos and a focus on deficits towards creativity, collaboration and collective action.
Through quests, storytelling, asset mapping and interactive play, participants discover strengths, build connections and explore what they can create together.
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Facilitating Under Pressure: Using Psychodrama to Access Presence, Spontaneity and Transformational Capacity
15 October 2026 | 10:45 am–12:15 pm
Geelong, Victoria | Facilitation in Action Conference
Facilitators are often trained in tools, techniques and frameworks. When groups become emotional, angry, polarised, grieving or stuck, our presence and capacity to respond creatively become essential.
This experiential workshop introduces key psychodramatic concepts, including warm-up, roles and spontaneity, and explores how they shape facilitation and group outcomes.
Through warm-up, enactment and sharing, participants will explore ways to stay present, embodied and responsive under pressure. The session also introduces sociodrama, showing how bringing social systems into action can reveal hidden dynamics and open possibilities for shared understanding and collective change.
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Connecting with Your Creative Genius
Saturday 17 October 2026 | 2:30–5:00 pm
Meeting Room 1, Fitzroy Library, 128 Moor St, Fitzroy, Melbourne
An experiential session using psychodrama to explore creativity, spontaneity and new possibilities for self-expression, facilitated by Dimitrios Papalexis, AANZPA NSW psychodramatist and convenor of the Sydney 2027 AANZPA Conference.
This is the host region’s final event for the year, offered free of charge as a gift from AANZPA to the region.
Getting there: Enter via Moor St, downstairs below the old Fitzroy Town Hall. Free parking in the area is very limited.
Optional dinner: After the session, join Dimitrios and the group for dinner nearby on Brunswick or Smith St. Dinner is at each person’s own expense.
November 2026
Lens on Strengths: Youth, Belonging and Asset-Based Community Development
6 November 2026 | 10:00 am–4:00 pm
Impact Story Lab, Darlinghurst, Sydney NSW
A one-day, hands-on workshop exploring how Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) can help us recognise young people’s strengths, mobilise community assets and build belonging and community-led action.
We begin by noticing what young people and communities already have: gifts, ideas, creativity, culture, connection to Country, relationships, clubs and associations, places and stories. Then we explore how to connect and mobilise these assets.
Bringing together ABCD, place-based practice, youth participation and strengths-based approaches, the workshop centres on one practical question:
What happens when we start with what young people and communities already have, and connect it?
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The World We Create: Conflict, Power and Response-Ability
28 November 2026 | 2:00–5:00 pm
Crows Nest Centre, Sydney NSW
Hosted by the Psychodrama NSW/ACT AANZPA Regional Committee
What kind of world are we creating through the ways we relate, respond to conflict and navigate power in everyday life?
This experiential workshop invites people who care about safer, healthier and more connected relationships, groups, workplaces and communities to explore their patterns, choices and possibilities for change.
We will begin with activities drawing on Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) approaches, using affirmation, listening, communication and cooperation to build connection. We will then use psychodrama to explore experiences and questions from participants’ lives, guided by what emerges together.
Taking a strengths-based approach, we will look for the capacities already present within ourselves and our relationships: care, courage, empathy, honesty, creativity and the ability to make new choices.
The workshop welcomes people of all genders, cultural backgrounds and abilities. Together, we will explore our response-ability: our capacity to respond with awareness, care and choice.
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Bring a Workshop to Your Organisation or Community
Interested in a workshop tailored to your group?
I work with organisations, councils, schools and communities to create engaging learning experiences in strengths-based community development, youth participation, creative facilitation, belonging and relational wellbeing.
Get in touch to explore what might be useful for your people and place.