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Start date:
July 2024
Places:
Places are awarded on a "first paid first serve" basis due to demand
Cost / delivery:
£630 / 5 days (22 – 26 July 2024)
Dramatherapy Summer School this year provides participants with the opportunity to experience an intensive 5-session experiential class.
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Participants will explore the fundamentals of Dramatherapy practice, the basic structure of a Dramatherapy session, clinical applications, and creative explorations into the role of a Dramatherapist.
Course structure
Drama and Ritual are considered to be intimately related to each other when they are applied therapeutically. Traditionally, both Ritual and Drama have served humanity during points of transition and change. It is these ideas and themes that will primarily inform this Summer School in Dramatherapy which is offered as a series of 5 experiential workshops.
The focus for the week is on exploring dramatic creativity and self expression as a potential therapeutic intervention and the group will work with an established story and progress into an exploration of the personal identification we can have with such stories – and what they ‘hold’ for us.
Intended audience
This course will be of interest to anyone wishing to find out more about training in this discipline, individuals wanting to explore their creativity in a unique environment and anyone working in the fields of Drama, Theatre and Performance wishing to deepen their understanding of the potential therapeutic properties of their craft.
Our Summer School may also be of interest to mental health professionals, teachers and social workers interested in learning more about these unique and creative forms of therapy.
A degree of active participation will be expected from all participants who should therefore be prepared for a degree of personal disclosure, sharing and exploration.
Timetable
10am - 4pm
Monday
Dramatherapy
Tuesday
Dramatherapy
Wednesday
Dramatherapy
Thursday
Dramatherapy
Friday
Dramatherapy
Afternoon Plenary Session
Suggested reading
Please click here for the recommended reading list.
Tutors
Samantha E Adams
On-campus Tutor
Samantha E. Adams, HCPC Registered & Executive member of BADTH, undertook her training as a Dramatherapist at Roehampton.
She has over twenty years experience in theatre practice as a performer, practitioner, and storyteller.
She regularly works for the National Theatre as a learning associate and mentor, Half Moon Theatre as lead tutor with adolescents with physical and learning disability, and at Central School of Speech and Drama as tutor/director.
As a freelance Dramatherapist she has worked on an acute forensic ward for men with complex needs, and currently works in the community with women at risk, in a primary school with pupils with social, emotional and behavioural needs, and at a St Mungo’s homeless residence.
She is a visiting lecturer at Roehampton, and teaches Therapeutic Stories on the Dramatherapy MA.
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22 – 26 July 2024
