Staging & Performing Change: Dramatherapy and Performance

Staging & Performing Change: Personal, Relational & Collective Dimensions of Drama Therapy & Performance

This online course is a three-part series. Your ticket gives you access to all three sessions:

Tues, 13th January @ 5-8 pm- Part I: Self-Revelatory Performance: Intrapersonal Exploration

Tues, 10th Febuary @ 5-8 pm - Part II: Co-Revelatory Performance: Intrapersonal Dynamics

Tues, 10th March @ 5-8 pm - Part III: Theatre for Change: Therapeutic Theatre for Social Justice & Collective Healing

This three-part series explores dramatherapy’s capacity to foster transformation across personal, relational, and collective dimensions through performance. Participants will be introduced to three distinct yet interrelated forms of therapeutic performance specific to dramatherapy: Self-Revelatory Performance, Co-Revelatory Performance, and Theatre for Change (a project developed at CIIS). Each offers a unique pathway to healing, insight, and change.

Sessions will include didactic presentations, sample performance footage with analysis, experiential activities adapted for virtual participation, and opportunities for reflective dialogue and inquiry.

Learning outcomes or objectives:

Articulate the theoretical foundations, core elements, and intended therapeutic functions of Self-Revelatory Performance, Co-Revelatory Performance, and Theatre for Change within drama therapy praxis.

Differentiate the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and sociocultural dimensions of therapeutic performance and their respective applications in clinical, educational, and community contexts.

Analyze recorded examples of therapeutic performance to assess therapeutic objectives, aesthetic strategies, and indicators of psychodramatic or transformative impact on the performer(s).