From the Drama Triangle to the Drama Pyramid - Aruna Gopakumar

Most of us are familiar with the Drama Triangle ( Karpman, 1968) and how useful this model is when working with clients. The model describes the dysfunctional roles we can unconsciously play to avoid taking responsibility for ourselves. Petruska Clarkson (1987), added the Bystander role, the audience to the Drama. The Bystander is ostensibly outside the drama, but impacts the drama in many ways.

This two-hour workshop explores the Bystander role (Clarkson, 1987) in greater depth and redefines its position from one of being an onlooker to that of being an integral element in the Drama Triangle, making it a three-dimensional Drama Pyramid (Gopakumar and Vaidik, 2022).

This new extension of the model highlights the need for an awareness of context. Our culture is deeply routed in our psychological makeup influencing the positions that we take on the model. Recognising invisible oppression allows us to recognise the Game roles that we may be taking on without awareness.

The workshop also proposes Functional Fluency (Temple, 2002) as a useful model that can enable us to step out of Game roles. We will work with several examples of Bystanding, and use the model to find options to responsibly intervene. An understanding of this can enhance our client work and help us to understand relational dynamics at a different level

This 2-hour workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch again.

This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our camera and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

To support practitioners in this time of extraordinary circumstances we are offering access to this group for a self-select fee.

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/

This workshop in a collaboration between The Link Centre and onlinevents

At The Link Centre we pride ourselves in delivering high quality options tailored to needs of clients and delivered in a relaxed, comfortable yet stimulating environment in which people feel safe to learn and develop. We work with individuals, groups, organisations, and educational establishments using the depth of our psychological knowledge, to facilitate growth and development.

Our training centre is located in the heart of the countryside, in Plumpton, East Sussex. It provides a variety of training rooms, extensive parking, and disabled access, to help meet the needs of individuals attending our courses. As well as this the centre has extensive grounds that can be enjoyed during lunch and tea breaks.

We also offer in-house coaching, training and consultancy that is tailored to the needs of our customers.

Our trainers and consultants are all fully qualified, experienced, skilled and accredited to both national and international level.

For more information about The Link Centre please click the link below

https://www.thelinkcentre.co.uk/

Aruna Gopakumar

Aruna Gopakumar is a PTSTA (P), running training, supervision and therapy groups in Bangalore, India. She founded Navgati, a leadership development firm, in 1999. Today, with over 500 organisational clients, Navgati is a market leader in running creative, powerful and unique learning events.

Aruna is an engineer from Anna University (1991), MBA from IIM-Bangalore (1993), an MCC (Master Certified Coach with the ICF) and a psychodrama practitioner. She is the Vice President of Research and Publication for SAATA. You may contact Aruna at [email protected].

Event Venue

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