Estonian Moreno Centre was found in 1998 by five people from Tallinn CP training group. The aim was to spread psychodrama knowledge and use group method in their everyday work as psychotherapists, councelors, group leaders, trainers and supervisors.
Estonian Moreno Centre has 3 units – Moreno Training Centre, Tallinn Psychodrama Institute and Estonian Playback Theatre.
Main activities are:
long-term psychodrama therapy groups
courses and supervision for specialists in social, medical and educational field
psychodrama training in TEP, CP and Group Leader level
Playback training group and Theatre.
1990-1992 psychodramatists from Finland and Sweden held short-term courses in Estonia to introduce psychodrama and the ideas of Moreno. After re-establishing the independence of Estonian Republic in 1992, many psychodramatists from Nordic countries, England and Israel continued seminars and courses of psychodrama, sociodrama and group psychotherapy.
In 1995 two training programs started – one in Tallinn lead by Sirkku Aitolehti, TEP, from Helsinki Psychodrama Institute, and other in Tartu lead by Ruuda Palmquist, TEP, from Swedish Moreno Institute.
Since 1995 Moreno Centre together with Estonian Psychodrama Association has hold Estonian Psychodrama Conferences (Meeting in Olustvere) to introduce this method and therapy and training possibilities of psychodrama.
2000 The Ist Baltic Moreno Conference was held in Estonia, initiated by Moreno Centre. Now this tradition is alive and after every 2 years BMC is held in one of the Baltic countries.
2000 Tallinn Psychodrama Institute was accepted as a member of Nordic Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociodrama and Group Psychotherapy.
2007 cooperation with Tallinn University to teach psychodrama in creative therapy programme.
2011 Moreno Centre is one of the establishers of Estonian Psychotherapy Association
