The World We Create: Conflict, Power and Response-Ability

The World We Create

Conflict, Power and Response-Ability

An experiential workshop for people who care and want to contribute to safer, healthier and more connected relationships, groups, workplaces and communities.

Hosted by Psychodrama NSW/ACT AANZPA Regional Committee

Crows Nest Centre | 28 November 2026

What kind of world are we creating through the ways we relate, respond to conflict and navigate power in everyday life?

The World We Create is an invitation to explore our patterns, choices and capacity to contribute to positive change, beginning with our everyday relationships.

We will begin with experiential activities drawing on Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) approaches to conflict transformation. Through experiences of affirmation, listening, communication and cooperation, we will build connections and a foundation for working together.

In the second part, we will use psychodrama to explore experiences and questions from participants’ lives, guided by themes that emerge through our work together. These may include responding to conflict, navigating strong emotions and power, and challenges in our relationships.

Together, we will work towards a supportive, non-judgemental space where participants can reflect, experiment and discover possibilities for responding. The direction will develop through what participants bring and what emerges together.

Taking a strengths-based approach, we will look for the capacities already present within ourselves, our relationships and our groups: care, courage, empathy, honesty, creativity and the ability to make new choices.

The workshop welcomes people of all genders, cultural backgrounds and abilities. It offers space to learn through experience, connect with others and explore our response-ability: our capacity to respond with awareness, care and choice.

We believe change happens in relationship and community. The world we want to live in is also shaped by how we relate and act in the here and now.

Facilitators

Dimitrios Papalexis | Counsellor & Certified Psychodrama Practitioner

Dimitrios is a counsellor, certified psychodrama practitioner and youth and community development practitioner with extensive experience working alongside young people, communities and organisations. His work spans social cohesion, intercultural and interfaith initiatives, critical incident support, youth and community development, and place-based work across metropolitan and regional NSW, including partnerships with Aboriginal organisations, peak bodies and communities of practice.

His practice brings together psychodrama, strengths-based and asset-based community development, participation and experiential approaches, including Playback and Forum Theatre. He was previously a member of the Out of the Box Playback Theatre troupe and continues to draw on embodied and participatory approaches to explore belonging, relationships, conflict and our capacity to contribute to change.

Shanaz Razeen | AVP Facilitator, Restorative Practitioner & Psychodrama Trainee

Shanaz is an experienced facilitator with the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), facilitating workshops in nonviolent community conflict transformation since 2014. His work spans restorative practice in schools, strengths-based work with young people and adults, community organising, social cohesion and reconciliation initiatives.

He is currently training in psychodrama and has been a member of Sydney Playback Theatre for several years. Shanaz brings together conflict transformation, restorative and experiential approaches to explore power, relationships and the possibilities for personal and social change.

Psychodrama NSW/ACT, the AANZPA Regional Committee, brings together AANZPA members, practitioners, trainees and people interested in experiential approaches to personal, relational and social change across NSW and the ACT. As part of the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association (AANZPA), we create opportunities for our membership and wider community to connect, learn, practise and explore psychodrama through workshops, events, professional development and shared experiences.

Interested in learning more? For training in psychodrama, visit Psychodrama Australia. For more psychodrama events, workshops and information across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, visit AANZPA