Exploring social issues through action-based methods
A center dedicated to education and research using Morenian action methods and participatory approaches that involve those affected.
Our work is grounded in Morenian action methods, including sociodrama, sociometry, and related participatory approaches, which enable the exploration and mapping of social issues from multiple perspectives of the affected groups. In contrast to approaches that primarily address the cognitive dimensions of knowledge, action-based methods mobilize embodied, emotional, relational, and performative processes. As a result, the knowledge that emerges is less filtered or masked, more deeply embedded in lived contexts, and attentive to multiple, sometimes conflicting perspectives. This leads to insights and solution pathways that are not only analytically informed, but also context-sensitive, workable, and meaningful within real social and institutional settings.
WHO WE ARE
People and professional connections behind the Centre
Ágnes Blaskó, Phd
Head of AMEC
Methodological developer and researcher working with Morenian sociodramatic and action-based methods
ACTION METHOD EXPERTS
Andrea Kocsi
methodoligical expert, methodological developer, facilitator, examiner
Krisztina Galgóczi
methodoligical expert, methodological developer, facilitator, examiner
RESEARCHERS & RESEARCH COLLABORATORS
Zsófia Kollányi, PhD
Social policy analyst, economist, sociodrama practitioner. Zsófi's thematic experience is rooted mainly in health policy and health inequalities, with increasing interest in public policy formulation and its methodologies. As part of that, she is committed to the understanding of complex systems partly via non-traditional, participatory methods. She considers sociodrama as one of the most powerful such method, that enables researchers to get access to the deepest, strongest drivers of people, beyond the explicit and the cognitive, hence making the design of better policies and real behavior change possible.
Eszter Neumann
Sociologist of education, interested in using sociodrama and action methods as tools of participatory engagement and research.
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researcher
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DOMAIN-SPECIFIC COLLABORATORS
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anaesthesiologists (field specific researcher)
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international law education (field specific researcher)
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music industry (field specific researcher)
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UPCOMING TRAININGS
Entry points into action-based learning
Learning formats offered by the Action Method Education Centre (AMEC), several of which are organized in collaboration with partner institutions.These trainings function as entry points into action-based and participatory work, reflecting our ongoing educational and methodological practice. Some formats focus on learning and practicing action methods, while others are topic-centered, experiential formats for exploring concrete social, educational, or institutional questions. Training offers are updated continuously.
Workshops Leading Toward Practitioner Training – Experiental Learning
Type: Workshop Series
Focus: This workshop series consists of 12 sessions of 5 hours each. It is primarily designed for those intending to enter the Practitioner Training pathway, while also remaining open to new participants who are interested in action methods and sociodrama.
The workshops are held biweekly and explore different, independent themes. Each session works with a distinct focus and applies various types of action methods and sociodramatic techniques.
Topics:
The Group Dynamics of Bullying
Sociodrama in the Social Research
Conflicting Group Members – What Makes a “Good” Facilitator?
Sociodramatic Analysis of a Contemporary Artwork
Politics Under Our Skin
International Law
Bullying in the Classroom
The Social Dimensions of Neurodivergence
“Nothing About Us Without Us”
Format: workshops
Timeframe: April – September 2026
Visitors may attend a single session.
For those wishing to enter the training program, an interview is required, along with documented self-experience work and any form of prior group facilitation experience.
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Action Method Practitioner 1. – Learning Group
Type: Learning group / Training process
Focus: An experiential learning group for participants who wish to encounter and experience action methods. The group can serve either as a standalone learning experience or as preparation for continuing studies (Action Method Practitioner Training 2), where participants will later apply these methods to group, institutional, and social questions.
The process enables participants to experience and compare different forms of sociodrama and action-based techniques within a structured learning environment.
Format: Long-term learning process combining experiential and reflective work
Timeframe: February–June 2026
Status: Upcoming – participation based on application and interview
More information: Please contact us for details
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Conflicting Group Members – Problem Mapping as Guidance
Type: Training module / Learning group
Focus: How to facilitate in seemingly unsolvable situations where no established facilitation culture is present.
Participants work with the Problem Mapping method to make visible group tensions, positions, and constraints, and to open a shared space for collective thinking and action.
Format: Modular learning group combining experiential and reflective work
Timeframe: February–May 2026 (weekly sessions)
Status: Upcoming
Outcome: Problem Mapping and Cultural Atom certificate (badge)
More information: Please contact us for details
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Action Methods for Researchers – Beyond Controlled Responses
Type: Short training module
Focus: This training explores how sociodramatic action techniques can be applied in research as tools for accessing knowledge beyond controlled or purely verbal responses.
Participants engage with action-based inquiry as a methodological resource within qualitative research.
Format: Short series (introductory experiential module)
Timeframe: January–February 2026
Status: Upcoming
Outcome: Experiential hours applicable toward the Action Method Analysis certificate (AMEC)
Trainers: Ágnes Blaskó; Zsófi Kollányi
More information: Please contact us for details
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Bullying in My Classroom!
Type: Topic-centered experiential training / Teacher professional development
Focus: An experiential, action-based training supporting educators in understanding and addressing bullying situations as group-dynamic phenomena.
Participants become familiar with recurring roles, interaction patterns, and hidden dynamics within bullying processes, and identify concrete intervention points that can interrupt established situations.
Format: Short, intensive training combining experiential and reflective work
Timeframe: Scheduled upon registration; available as on-site training in schools
Status: Upcoming
Target group: Teachers, school professionals, education professionals
Outcome: Methodological know-how applicable to everyday classroom practice
More information: Please contact us for details
Continuous Enrollment
PROJECTS
Applied research and educational initiatives
The projects presented here represent applied research and educational initiatives that have shaped the methodological foundations of the Action Method Centre. While many of these projects were carried out prior to the formal establishment of AMEC and AMERC, they constitute the professional trajectory on which the Centre builds its current and future work.
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Educational Development Projects
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Applied Research and Social Inquiry
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Action Methodological Development
CONTACT
Collaboration, training, and research inquiries
Send us an email
info@actionmethod.eu
Give us a call
(629) 555-0129-99