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Dramatherapy

Start date:

October 2025
January 2026

Places:

Places are awarded on a "first paid first serve" basis due to demand

Cost / delivery:

£875 / 10 weeks, online or on-campus

Intermediate: October

Advanced: January

A programme of experiential workshops.

This course is 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, you should be prepared to work with the tensions between your personal and professional learning.

Delivery

Intermediate

  • On-campus: 18 October - 13 December 2025 
  • Online: 18 October - 13 December 2025 
  • 8 x two-hour Wednesday evening classes plus two Saturdays

Advanced

  • On-campus: 10 January - 7 March 2026 
  • Online: 10 January - 7 March 2026 
  • 8 x two-hour Wednesday evening classes plus two Saturdays
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.

Details

Assessment Suggested reading

You will keep a reflective log of your experiences while on the course which constitutes a record of your personal psychological journey (including images, stories and poems). As such, the log itself will be a highly personal manuscript and will not be assessed.

You 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 does not guarantee a place on the MA Dramatherapy programme at Roehampton.

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