Famiglia Dell'Arte

January 18 → 22, 2027

Melbourne
Australia

FAMIGLIA DELL’ ARTE

EXPLORING FAMILY STORIES, ROLES, DYNAMICS, PATTERNS AND SCRIPTS

through Psychodrama and Physical Theatre

with

Zsófi Kigyóssy & Giovanni Fusetti

Welcome to a highly experiential and playful group of personal development in which the Psychodrama Approach and Physical Theatre will dance together to provide a unique experience of emotional awareness and embodied spontaneity.

The focus of the group will be on the exploration of the Family as a field of roles, dynamics and relational patterns.
The Family of origin is the founding ground of our psychological development, a field of ancestral unfolding in which we often find the origin of many of our core psychological patterns. The family, in its inevitable intimate intensity, is a field of great power and great paradoxes: love and hurt, nurturing and wounding, support and conflicts, belonging and individuation. Emotions of all kinds flow under the family roof and the deep creative nature of this wonderful human configuration always dances with the potential for great heartbreaks. It can provide lifelong resources and support or endless disappointments and painful acceptance, as well as the possibility of healing, reparation and transformation.

A family is started by individuals with specific personalities and gives birth and nurtures other personalities, deeply entangled and intertwined with each other. Sometimes in very faithful reproduction, sometimes in fierce opposition, very often in both.

A family is also a micro manifestation of the society, in which specific cultures, values, and archetypal roles are in play. And in the background there is the world history with its collective events, and the deep mystery and awe of human condition. The story of each individual family is a piece of the story of the human family!

The workshop proposes a journey exploring how the family dynamics manifest in the life of an individual. The family of origin, the current family, the future family that a person can wish to create.

The Psychodrama approach allows the exploration of figures and roles of the present, as well as beloved and be-hated ones who have passed, ancestors and unborn children of the future. Through the perspective of Theatre each family life can be seen as a very elaborate play, in which each role follows some existential and psychological trajectories that often look like scripts of a play. In every family there is drama and melodrama, comedy and tragedy, heroes and fools, victims and oppressors…. A whole world to explore through play!
The family was a central theme of the Greek tragedies and it is still a fundamental  subject of countless novels, movies, and TV-series. It is impossible to bypass it!
In a Psychodrama the protagonist is encouraged to stage their family, past, present or future, and explore it through playing the various roles and characters, as well through witnessing other participants  playing them. Say unsaid messages, address unfinished gestalts, meet with ancestors or unborn children.

Physical theater brings embodiment, amplification and spontaneity to the play of the roles in the family and supports Psychodrama to manifest the fundamental theatrical nature of the psyche. In the family life highly theatrical events keep happening: conflicts, alliances and betrayals, separations, fights and reconciliations, battles and peace treaties, rites of passages, death and renewal. The rules of dramaturgy are all there! Crescendo, development of themes, amplification, sudden dramatic shifts, resolutions, dramatic peaks and happy or tragic endings.
The protagonist of the Psychodrama can stage their family field with the support of the group and witness the unfolding scripts of their psyche, seen and transposed through the lenses of the theatre genres. Tragedy, Melodrama, Satyre, Absurd and, very often, Comedy.

Welcome to the Famiglia dell’Arte !

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN…

The workshop is open to anyone wishing to engage in a quest of personal awareness and emotional awakening through role playing and theatrical exercises, within the context of a Psychodrama group.
This workshop is specifically designed for anyone interested in exploring their psychological field in an embodied and theatrical way, in which the body and its language comes first, before words. 

The Approach

The pedagogical approach integrates the practice and the experience of the two facilitators.

Psychodrama proposes a journey of emotional awareness and creative transformation of one’s own psychic structure, roles and relationships through the re-enactment of inner and outer life scenarios. In this sense it is a highly theatrical therapeutic practice, in which the protagonist stages (enacts) a scenario of their life using the group both as cast (auxiliaries) and as audience of the play.
If you wish to know more about Psychodrama you can visit www.zso.fi/psychodrama

Physical Theatre provides a set of exercises, games and playful techniques that support the embodiment of the different roles, thus encouraging a deeper experience of the process. The result is a deep artistic and emotional work, involving the body in a dynamic of play and spontaneity.
Theatre artists will discover a fun way to work on themselves with psychological depth and theatrical delight.

BIOS

Zsófi Kígyóssy is a Board Certified Psychodramatist, Sociometrist and Group Therapist trained in Hungary and in the USA, a registered Psychodramatist with AANZPA and Psychotherapist with PBANZ in New Zealand. She holds an MA in psychology and trained in EMDR. She runs personal development groups and works with individuals and couples in Wellington, Aotearoa-New Zealand. By living on three different continents she has gained multicultural experience to see how psychodrama works in different cultures. She has been amazed how much interaction and connection can facilitate healing and bring quality change to one’s life. 
https://www.zso.fi/

Giovanni Fusetti is an Italian multi-disciplinary fool. Natural Scientist, Theatre Artist and Pedagogue, in the lineage of Jacques Lecoq, trained in Gestalt Therapy. He works internationally as a teacher and process facilitator, exploring theatre as “a way” of initiation in multiple fields: performance, artistic training, education, healing, personal awareness and political action. He is the founding pedagogical director of HELIKOS International School of Theatre Creation, based in Padova, Italy.
For further information about Giovanni please visit the BIOGRAPHY page of this website.

• Theatre practitioners who are interested in a therapeutic process that includes play and theatricality: this can be as deeply healing as fundamentally fun.
• Teachers, educators, therapists, psychotherapists, psychodramatists, drama-therapists and anyone active in the field of healing who is interested in exploring psychology and therapy using a theatrical paradigm based on embodiment, play and fun.
• Anyone who is already engaged in a theatrical or therapeutic process.
• Adventurers of the Psyche who know and feel that humor and play are great allies in the journey of becoming.

If you are coming from the field of theatre arts, you can expect to practice a therapeutic process constantly fed by the dynamics and techniques of physical theatre and embodied play.
If you are coming from the psychological field you can expect to explore emotional processes and wounds through theatrical games and exercises and the creation of characters, in collective movement practice,improvisation and within a psychodramatic re-enactment.

A fierce and playful curiosity about human folly and beauty is required, as well as a passionate engagement to the exploration of one’s own emotional life in an artistic way.
Though no previous specific knowledge of Psychodrama and Physical Theatre are required, a previous experience in Personal Development/Therapy and in the space of Theatre and Play is necessary. 

SCHEDULE
January 18 to 22, 2027
Mon 18th: 9.30 – 5.00pm
Tues 19th: 9.30 – 5.00pm
Wed 20th: 9.30 – 3.30pm
Thurs 21st: 9.30 – 5.00pm
Fri 22th: 9.30 – 5.00pm

LOCATION
Pascoe Vale Uniting Church
10 Cumberland Rd, Pascoe Vale South VIC 3044, Australia
Directions

APPLICATION PROCESS

To apply to the workshop please e-mail a letter of motivation, (in English) to Giovanni and Zsófi at kairosplay@protonmail.com sharing the essence of your story, vision, dream, desire, fear or un-explicable intuition that leads you to this workshop. 

Before applying please read the document The Rules of Engagement, that you can find clicking on it. It contains
– the rules of engagement of the participants with the workshop: with oneself, with the group, with the teacher and with the work;
– the guidelines on what to include in the motivation letter;
– our cancellation and refund policy

By enrolling in the workshop you agree with our Rules of Engagement.

Please mention in your letter your previous experience in the field of personal development, psychotherapy and other relevant practice of emotional awareness, as well as your previous experience in the field of Theatre. The details of what to include in the motivation letter are in the Rules of Engagement Document. We recommend that you read it thoroughly to make sure your motivation letter is comprehensive and meets our requirements.

There is a non-refundable application fee of AUD20, to send using this payment link on the payment platform WISE.
Please include in the application the receipt/screenshot of your payment.
Once the application is received, in some cases the workshop facilitators might contact the applicant with some further questions, and/or request an online conversation.
Once the application is accepted, applicants can confirm their enrollment by sending AUD 400 as non-refundable deposit.

TUITION

EARLY BIRD TUITION
Sliding Scale 950 AUD to 1.250 AUD: if full payment is made before November 15th, 2026

The tuition is following a sliding scale approach. The sliding scale wants to acknowledge the fact that the “value” of money can change widely depending on many factors. Participants from different backgrounds, may have different access to income or to financial support. In an international training, different participants will also have very different travel costs.
If you can and want to pay on the higher end of the scale, you will be supporting the collective field of practice and the social and cultural diversity of the class, as well as funding our work and our ongoing pedagogic research. Please indicate in your application the amount that you choose to pay.

FULL PRICE
AUD 1.350: if full payment is made after November 15th, 2026


Please note that the tuition does not include food and accommodation and that participants will be responsible for organizing their staying in Melbourne. 

A limited number of spots are available at a reduced tuition. Please contact us if you are interested.
Please note that in case of cancellation by the enrolled participant, the deposit is NON-REFUNDABLE.


The maximum number of participants is 14.
Once the 14 places will be assigned, a waiting list will be set up, in case a spot will become available.

Enrollment situation as of Septeber 10th: applications are open and there are spots available

For further information about the content of the workshop you can contact us at

kairosplay@protonmail.com