Pen Fitzgerald qualified as a psychodrama psychotherapist in 1996 and has been running groups incorporating Psychodrama and Sociodrama in many different settings since then. Until the end of 2021 she also worked as a social worker with young people coming out of the care system in Ireland focusing particularly on immigrant children displaced from their country and also from their family of origin. Recently she has been involved in the Community Sponsorship Programme preparing to welcome a Syrian refugee family to the local town and developed this workshop to help her group and community understand the refugee experience.