The Drama Spiral Model

Re-Liveis an award winning arts organisation providing an inspirational programme ofLife Story Theatre. We believe thateveryone has a story to telland that theatre can be a transformative arena for those stories to be heard.Ourunique creative processtakes people on a journey which supports them to become performers and places theirstories centre stage.We have been at theforefront of the Arts in Health & Wellbeingagenda in Wales for the last 10 years; building a reputation for excellence for our unique theatre productions and experiential dementia training programme.All our work aims to support the health and wellbeing of participants by providinghigh quality creative opportunitieswhich reduces isolation and loneliness.www.re-live.org.uk

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Safe and ethical practice when working with personal and collective stories

The Drama Spiral Model: Safe and ethical practice when working with personal and collective storiesThis event is part of a series of free online sessions accompanying the launch of Re-Live’s new book, <a href="https://www.re-live.org.uk/the-re-live-book" title="https://www.re-live.org.uk/the-re-live-book" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Creating Life Story Theatre: A Guide for Applied Theatre Practitioners</a>.Join us for a two-hour session, facilitated by Clark Baim, PhD, introducing the key principles and practice of working safely and ethically with people and their personal and collective stories in applied theatre contexts.This session is for theatre and arts practitioners, health and social care professionals, researchers, and anyone interested in creative life story work and how it can be facilitated ethically and safely with participants from all backgrounds and abilities.Learning aims for the session:<ul><li>How the Drama Spiral offers a model for regulating the personal distance of drama exercises and ensemble script development.</li><li>Principles and processes for regulating distance in drama and theatre-making workshops.</li><li>Principles of psychological safety and trauma-informed practice during drama and theatre-making workshops.</li><li>Negotiating boundaries.</li><li>The containing metaphor, and fictionalisation, as tools for regulating distance.</li><li>Role selection for participant-performers; principles and practices around de-roling.</li><li>Building in principles of safe practice with novice performers.</li><li>Factors to consider when regulating the distance of the material.</li></ul>Please come prepared to actively participate in discussions.The facilitator, Clark Baim, PhD, is a psychodrama psychotherapist (UKCP and BPA), and author of Staging the Personal: A guide to safe and ethical practice. He is the co-author of Creating Life Story Theatre, with Karin Diamond and Alison O’Connor. He developed the Drama Spiral model during his PhD research at the University of Exeter. He was the founding Director of Geese Theatre Company UK in 1987, and worked with the company until 1999. He is now on their Board of Directors. He is the co-author of the Geese Theatre Handbook: Drama with offenders and youth at risk. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he worked for seven years as a psychodramatist at HM Prison Grendon Underwood, a therapeutic prison.

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