/ Short Courses /
Start date:
October 2024
Places:
Places are awarded on a "first paid first serve" basis due to demand
Cost / delivery:
£1,375 / 20 weeks, online or on-campus
(18 x two hour Wednesday evening classes plus two Saturdays)
19 Oct 2024 - 22 March 2024
A programme of experiential workshops led by the course facilitators and seminars given by visiting Dramatherapists from a wide range of fields.
The course is structured through experientail workshops. These on campus workshops will form the main framework of the course and will be facilitated by experienced registered Dramatherapy practitioners. They will focus on aspects of Dramatherapy, Ritual Theatre and Applied Theatre techniques.
Whilst it is stressed that the main emphasis of the experiential workshops is educational and not therapeutic, participants should be prepared to work with the tensions between their personal and professional learning.
Seminars and Lectures
Throughout the workshop structure, key theoretical and practise-based themes will be explored through peer discussion, as well as some formal tutor-led presentations.
Application deadline: X October 2024, 1pm
Details
Assessment
Participants are invited to keep a reflective log of their experiences while on the course which constitutes a record of their personal psychological journey (including images, stories and poems). As such, the log itself will be a highly personal manuscript and will not be assessed.
Participants will also be required to participate in a performance process towards the end of the course, which will be assessed by the course tutor and reflective feedback offered.
You will need to complete a minimum of 70% of the course and the assessment process in order to receive an electronic attendance certificate.
Please note that completion of the Dramatherapy Foundation course not guarantee a place on the MA Dramatherapy programme at Roehampton University.
This timetable is provisional - dates and times may be subject to change.
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Date |
Time |
Title |
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21 October |
10am-4.30pm |
Introductions and overview of the course. A day to establish the group, and to begin exploring key dramatherapy elements of play, rituals of transformation, embodied expression, and story |
|
25 October |
7pm - 9pm |
Working with stories |
|
1 November |
7pm - 9pm |
Story-making |
|
8 November |
7pm - 9pm |
Archetypes within stories |
|
15 November |
7pm - 9pm |
Embodiment & Enactment of stories |
|
22 November |
7pm - 9pm |
Use of metaphor & Symbol |
|
29 November |
7pm - 9pm |
Case Vignette of story work |
|
6 December |
7pm - 9pm |
Improvisationand use of Applied Theatre techniques |
|
13 December |
7pm - 9pm |
Peter Brooks 'The Empty Space':Play & spontaneity, and preparing the space |
|
10 January |
7pm - 9pm |
Winnicott's 'Playing and Reality', and transitional phenomena |
|
17 January |
7pm - 9pm |
Developmental play |
|
24 January |
7pm - 9pm |
Probs and puppets |
|
31 January |
7pm - 9pm |
Masks |
|
7 February |
7pm - 9pm |
Therapeutic Theatre |
|
14 February |
7pm - 9pm |
Collaborative process |
|
21 February |
7pm - 9pm |
Clinical Settings and client groups |
|
28 February |
7pm - 9pm |
Devising a Therapeutic Theatre performance |
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6 March |
7pm - 9pm |
Facilitation skills |
|
13 March |
7pm - 9pm |
Designing and developing a workshop |
|
16 March |
10am-4.30pm |
Therapeutic Theater Performances. Feedback and Reflections |
Suggested reading
Dramatherapy Foundation Course
Introductory Reading List
Bettelheim, B. (1976) The Uses of Enchantment,(1991 ed.), Harmondsworth: Penguin
Boal, A. (1992) Games for Actors and Non Actors, London: Routledge
Brook, P. (1968) The Empty Space, London: Penguin
Emunah, R. (1994) Acting for Real: Dramatherapy Process, Technique and Performance, New York: Mazel Publishers
Gersie, A & N. King, (1990) Story-making in Education and Therapy, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Gersie, A. (1997) Reflections on Therapeutic Storymaking, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Jennings, S. (1992) Dramatherapy Theory and Practice 2, London: Routledge
Jennings, S, Cattanach A, Mitchell S, Chesner A, & Meldrum B. (1994) The Handbook of Dramatherapy, London: Routledge
Jennings, S. (1998) Introduction to Dramatherapy, Theatre and Healing, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Jennings, S. (2011) Neuro-Dramatic-Play, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Johnston, C. (2010) Drama Games for those who like to say no, London: Nick Hern Books Ltd
Jones, P. (2007) Drama as Therapy Volume 1: Theory, Practice and Research, London. Routledge
Landy, R. (1993) Persona and Performance: The Meaning of Role in Drama, and Everyday Life, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Mitchell, S. (ed) (1996) Dramatherapy: Clinical Studies, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pearson, J. Smail, M, Watts, P, (2013) Dramatherapy with Myth and Fairytale, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pearson, J. (1996) Discovering the Self through Drama and Movement, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Swaile, J. (2009) Drama Games for Classrooms and Workshops, London: Nick Hern Books Ltd
Von Franz, ML. (1974) Shadow and Evil in Fairytales, Boston, Massachusetts: Shambala Publications
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19 October 2024 – 22 March 2025
