October 2022 On campus

Please note you must first complete & submit an application form. Places will be allocated and secured upon receipt of a successful application. Courses for Health Professionals, Social Workers, Teachers and others interested in finding out about Art Therapies. The following course is offered on a part-time basis for 20 weeks. The course compromises of two full day workshops and eighteen evening classes.

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Please read the  Short Courses & Professional Development Programmes Contract 2020-21 before submitting payment.

Course Description

Experiential Workshops

These 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.

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. A certificate of attendance will be awarded on the basis of satisfying a minimum attendance of 80% of the course.

Please note that completion of the Dramatherapy Foundation course not guarantee a place on the MA Dramatherapy programme at Roehampton University. 

A programme of experiential workshops led by the course facilitators and seminars given by visiting Dramatherapists from a wide range of fields.

One full-day Induction (Saturday) and introductory workshop to begin the course to be held on October 23 2021, with weekly evening classes to follow; finishing with a full Plenary Day to close on March 19 2022.

Course timetable and dates

This timetable is provisional - dates and times may be subject to change.

Date	Time	Title
22 October	1000-1630	Introduction to the course. A day to explore containment, exploration and improvisation in Dramatherapy Theory: Rites of passage and Rituals of transformation
26 Ooctober	1900-2100	1. Working with stories 2. Choosing a story
2 November	1900-2100	Story-making
9 November	1900-2100	Presenting stories
16 November	1900-2100	Embodiment & Enactment of stories
23 November	1900-2100	Theory: Use of metaphor & Symbol
30 November	1900-2100	Case Vignette of story work
7 December	1900-2100	1. Improvisation 2. Use of Applied Theatre techniques
14 December	1900-2100	1. Play & spontaneity 2. Preparing the space
11 January	1900-2100	Props, puppets & masks
18 January	1900-2100	Theory: Developmental play
25 January	1900-2100	Brook 'The Empty Space'
1 February	1900-2100	Winnicott's 'Playing & Reality'
8 February	1900-2100	1. Therapeutic Theatre 2. Collaborative process
15 February	1900-2100	Collaborative process
22 February	1900-2100	Clinical Settings and client groups
1 March	1900-2100	Devising a Therapeutic Theatre performance
8 March	1900-2100	Facilitation skills
15 March	1900-2100	Designing and developing a workshop
18 March	1000-1630	Theraputic Theater Performances.Feedback and Reflections