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Psychodrama Role Training
in Richmond, VA
Relational trauma causes the over-development of Trauma Roles and the under-development of Resilience Roles.
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"The body remembers what the mind forgets."
- Zerka Moreno
Psychodrama Role Training is a powerful, experiential approach to understanding and embodying your internal roles. By engaging in Somatically-Informed Psychodramatic techniques, you'll gain insights into your psychological patterns and learn to shift limiting behaviors. Whether you're looking to improve relationships, enhance self-awareness, or heal emotional wounds, Psychodrama Role Training offers a transformative experience.
What is Psychodrama?
Why does Role Training matter?
What are Psychodrama Roles?
How does Psychodrama Role Training work?
What is Psychodrama?
Psychodrama is an action-based recovery model that uses a variety of techniques to explore and process emotions, behavior, and identity. During Psychodrama Role Training, participants take on various internal roles (e.g., the Observing Ego, the Playful Child, and the Good Enough Nurturer) to deepen their understanding of inner conflicts, strengths, and vulnerabilities.
The process is guided by a trained facilitator who uses somatically-informed action methods to facilitate emotional expression and transformation.
Why does Role Training matter?
Psychodrama Role Training offers deep insights into the roles you play in everyday life—whether it's at work, in relationships, or within yourself. Each of us plays multiple roles, often unconsciously, and these roles can either empower or limit us.
Seeking Depth to Recovery uses our own proprietary Role Theory framework, inspired by TSM, IFS, and Somatic Experiencing. We believe that trauma cannot be safely processed without the development of internal resources. In our Psychodrama Role Training, these internal resources include the roles necessary for healthy personality development and adult functioning: Observing Ego, Good Enough Nurturer, and Spontaneous Child.
By engaging with, developing, and strengthening these roles, you can:
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Unlock deeper emotional awareness and self-knowledge.
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Heal past wounds by developing the resources you didn’t have during the time of wounding.
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Strengthen your resilience by embodying empowering roles.
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Improve communication by understanding the different roles you and others play.
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Let go of lingering resentments by understanding the roles holding them.
What are Psychodrama Roles?
Role Training starts with Role Taking, then Role Playing, and finally Role Creating. When we get to Role Creating, we have established fluidity and integration among our various Trauma Roles and Resilience Roles.
Seeking Depth to Recovery has created a psychodrama journey to help acquaint you with your Roles and establish organization within your Role Repertoire.
OBSERVING EGO: This is the part of ourselves that observes our life's experience without judgment, shame, or blame. It's like the narrator to our story - it can describe our emotional experience without being hijacked by emotions. This allows us to respond rather than react, take things less personally, and produces more sense of choice in our lives.
GOOD ENOUGH NURTURER: This is the hardest part to develop, as it's often intertwined with the Trauma Roles who tell us that we don't deserve to rest or to be loved. We often play this role well in the lives of others, but find it inaccessible to ourselves. This is why we call it "Good Enough." When we're connected to this role, we have self-compassion, self-forgiveness, and positive self-beliefs.
SPONTANEOUS CHILD: This role is the part of ourselves that was kept safe during periods of trauma or chronic stress. It connects us safely to play, joy in life, and creativity. This role is instrumental in our ability to enjoy living.
How does Psychodrama Role Training work?
Participants can expect to engage in somatically-informed grounding exercises that activate neural networks of Resilience. They will learn how to Role and Role Reverse with their Observing Ego, Good Enough Nurturer, and Spontaneous Child. Though more likely to happen in a psychodrama group, it is common to witness what stimulates one's Trauma Roles and have the opportunity to gain insight into the relationship between Trauma Roles and Resilience Roles.