SEPTEMBER WORKSHOPS-2025
Workshop 1: Decolonizing the Inner World
Facilitated by Ursula Hauser & Magdalene Jeyarathnam📍 Atma Darshan, Mumbai | September 1st–5th, 2025
This 5-day immersive workshop explores Decolonizing the Inner World through the lenses of psychodrama and ethno-psychoanalysis. Ursula Hauser joins Magdalene Jeyarathnam to guide participants through a powerful historical and therapeutic journey.
Together, they will examine how colonial legacies live within our identities, relationships, and collective psyche. The workshop blends experiential group work and reflective action methods, engaging with both postcolonial realities and current systemic imbalances.
Ideal for therapists, activists, artists, and anyone committed to healing with justice, cultural awareness, and deep respect for difference.
Workshop 2- Healing Transgenerational Trauma through Psychodrama
Facilitated by Magdalene Jeyarathnam
📍Andheri East, Mumbai | September 6th–7th, 2025
This experiential space invites participants to uncover and release emotional patterns passed down through generations. Using the action-based approach of psychodrama, Magdalene will guide the group in exploring family histories, unconscious loyalties, and inherited narratives — offering opportunities for catharsis, insight, and transformation.
Spaces are limited for this intimate workshop. Prior experience is not required — open to anyone ready to engage in deep personal healing.
Workshop 3- Living Moreno: A history of modern psychodrama in action
Facilitated by SÄ—rgio GuimarĂŁes
📍 Chennai| September 20th–24th, 2025
In this transformative 5-day workshop, Sergio GuimarĂŁes, Brazilian psychodramatist and trauma specialist here with to lead participants through the rich terrain of collective trauma, memory, and healing.
Using psychodramatic Participants will engage in deep experiential processes to unpack trauma and reconnect with personal resilience.
This space is for those ready to explore trauma, how healing can ripple outward—through group connection, role expansion, and shared action.
Workshop 4: Golden Repair – Finding beauty in the broken
Facilitated by Magdalene Jeyarathnam
📍 IIP Office, Chennai | September 26th–28th, 2025
Across cultures, the beauty of mending what is broken is deeply honoured — from the Japanese art of kintsugi, where cracks are filled with gold, to the Tamil tradition of vizhupun, where scars are worn as marks of courage. Both see brokenness not as failure, but as a story worth celebrating.
In this 3-day psychodrama workshop, you will gather the pieces of your own story, honour the breaks, and transform them through action and creative expression. Each healed crack becomes a golden line of strength — a testament that you are not less for what broke, but more for what you mended.
In this 3-day psychodrama workshop, you will gather the pieces of your own story, honour the breaks, and transform them through action and creative expression. Each healed crack becomes a golden line of strength — a testament that you are not less for what broke, but more for what you mended.