The Center for the Study and Practice of Psychodrama / Sophia Simeonidou after 14 consecutive years continues to offer a comprehensive training program in Psychodrama, Sociodrama and Sociometry in the city of Thessaloniki.

Sociodrama workshop with a mature group of Trainees in Istanbul. Thank you Istanbul Psychodrama Association for the sensitivity and responsibility to create Healthy Cultures.

It was with great pleasure and honor that I participated in the 15th Romanian Psychodrama Conference in Cluj-Napoca on “Between Global Warming and Social Coldness. Creating a Climate of Connection, Transformation and Healing in the Psychodrama Group” I had the pleasure to coordinate the large conference group of 80 people and to work simultaneously exploring […]

Participation of Sophia Simeonidou in the 46th Group Psychotherapy Conference in Pergamon, conducting the Sociodrama entitled “The Circle of Life”. The theme of the conference was “change and transformation”. 24-27 May 2023, Asclepius Pergamon, Turkey                        

From the 1st of May 2023, our Centre has been relocated to a new address   21, Politechniou Str.54626, Thessaloniki,Greece  

It is with great pleasure that we share publicly the success of the three new psychodramatists in their exams for the completion of their studies. Welcome Vasiliki Kapsali, Maria Kremmida and Ioanna Petritsi. Centre for the Study and Application of Psychodrama/Sofia Simeonidou

2 days workshop-seminar entitled: Fight, Flight, Freeze. Working with Anxiety in Psychodrama 1 & 2/10/2022 Simona Vlad, Psychodrama trainer and Psychotherapist. President of Societatea de Psihodramă “J.L. Moreno” 2-day training seminar, intended to explore anxiety from a psychodrama perspective. Are you anxious about leading a group? Do you want to help an anxious protagonist? The […]

  Colleagues of the FEPTO Task Force for Peace Building and Conflict Transformation present an online workshop of 90 minutes for the 21st International IAGP Congress in Pescara, Italy: ” Strength, Inspirations and Transformation.” Abstract Authors & Facilitators (in alphabetical order): Margarida Belchior, Hande Karakılıç Üçer, Sofia Symeonidou Workshop’s Title: ”Encounter with the Enemy, inside […]

“Humans, creators in the pandemic”. Νew principles on old paths, an internal and external dialogue between the old and the new in the perpetual cycle of life! On the world stage which Moreno introduced, let us put the struggles that were individually and collectively fought in the pandemic, aiming for the endurance and viability of […]

13-15/5/ 2022 Συμμετοχή στο 16ο Συνέδριο που πραγματοποιήθηκε στην Οχρίδα της Βόρειας Μακεδονίας με θέμα “Η θεραπευτική δύναμη του Ψυχοδράματος”.   Η Σοφία Συμεωνίδου συμμετείχε διοργανώνοντας το εργαστήρι “Συνάντηση με την πέτρινη καρδιά”   Το συνέδριο διοργανώθηκε από τη FEPTO με τοπικό εταίρο: AMIGDALA School for Psychodrama (Republic North Macedonia)    

A Sociodrama for activism More and more frequently, we witness the average person taking individual initiative in an attempt to confront social issues. At the collective level, the little trust that exists in social ties reveals that our society is lacking in maturity in the face of major contemporary problems. Politicians and trade, not only […]

Title of the workshop: “Being with the others- a challenge of an e- learning process of cosmic existence” “Yes, the purpose of Earth is not life, it is not man! Earth has existed without these, and it will live on without them. They are but the ephemeral sparks of its violent rotation. Let us unite, […]

“12 years – 12 Actions!” The Center for the Study and Application of Psychodrama / Sofia Symeonidou celebrates 12 years of operation in the field of Psychodrama training. Students, graduates and associates of the Center organize in common 12 actions in our city, Thessaloniki, over the coming months of 2020. The first action is a […]

Our best wishes for the new year from our psychodrama trainning group!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kxs7JtHoQA&feature=youtu.be 14-17/06/2019 Participation to the 2nd IAGP International Research Congress on “Trauma and Crisis” organised by the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes Sofia’s Symeonidou presentation focused on: “Psychodrama and Sociodrama at the front line: Supervision groups for social scientists working with refugees in the field” and “Focusing on Trauma: reinforcing inclusion and […]

A specialized collaboration is starting between the “Center for the Study and Application of Psychodrama – Sophia Symeonidou” and NGO Arsis (Social Organization for Youth Support) for the practice of our 3-year students at the premises of Arsis. The duration of the practice/training will be 2 years and there would be a parallel supervision by […]

Workshop 3, 4 of March “panic attacks” Mirjana Stojanovska

On the 27th of January 2017 took place the first local training of Sociodrama*, atOikopolis (Ptolemeon 29A), in the framework of Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership in Vocational Education and Training (VET) Program. The local training is part of the project for the co-creation of a European Sociodrama Network – P.E.R.F.O.R.M.E.R.S. In the first training were participated […]

Judith Teszáry, together with Kata Horváth from the Hungarian Psychodrama Association started to design the project in 2015. After elaborating the management and administrative background, and working out the professional design of the project potential European psychodrama partners were invited into the project by using the FEPTO network. On one hand we contacted psychodrama organizations […]

Starting 2016 there is a continuous collaboration between the “Center of Study and Application of Psychodrama-Sofia Symeonidou” and NGO ARSIS (Social Organization for Youth Support) regarding the supervision of the personnel of its various departments/divisions that support refugees. The main tools that are being used are Psychodrama and Sociodrama.