Adrian Z Lania

Speaker

Adrian Lania MPsy, DipThArts, DipEd, MAPS, AThR (Drama) was born and educated in Wroclaw, Poland. He is a psychologist and dramatherapist. Adrian arrived in Sydney in 2004. Since then he has been working with children and adolescents at schools in Sydney South West Area. Adrian is the co-leader of an Introductory and an Advanced Dramatherapy Course, run by the Dramatherapy Centre. He enjoys working experimentally within the safe structure of the therapeutic process. In 2006 he created together with Joanna Jaaniste a documentary DVD: Going Birco, which was about the use of dramatherapy within the school setting (see ANZATA Newsletter 2007). Since then he has been made a performing member of Sydney Playback Theatre Company and is a registered member of ANZATA. In 2008, Adrian has engaged in PhD research at the University of Western Sydney into effective ways of working with young people with behavioral issues.