art and dramatherapy by Dr. Nira Kaplansky,
25th -29th June in Mumbai and 02nd- 06th July in Chennai
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Dr.Kaplansky, Dramatherapist & PTSD Expert
Just as a good movie director combines multiple disciplines such as acting, costumes, photography and writing, so too, a good Expressive Arts therapist, moves from drawing to painting to sculpture fluently for effective results.
We are very pleased to introduce for the first time in India, Dr. Nira Kaplansky, M.A. Dramatherapy from Surrey University, Roehampton and Phd in PTSD from Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford-UK.
Dr.Kaplansky has trained professionals on Exposure Techniques in Costa Rica, Argentina, Sri Lanka (Mashavim team) and Nigeria. She is a Dramatherapist, Social Worker and a CEO of Waterbirds Project -an International Nonprofit organisation.
Dr. Kaplansky is engaged in popularising Art therapy and PTSD by spreading high quality knowledge and supervision amongst therapeutic communities worldwide.
You can read more about the work she is involved with at http://www.wbirds.com/
who can attend this workshop
- Practicing professionals and students of psychology, psychotherapy, counselling and relevant fields.
- Couple counsellors
- Individuals involved in alternative education for Children
- Individuals involved with special needs children and their welfare.
- Families dealing with a family member with chronic or terminal ailments
- art teachers
- caregivers
- Social workers working with NGO's, or in areas of Trauma or mental disabilities
-drama and art professionals with the intent to heal with their existing knowledge of these tools
- Anybody with an intent to learn something new.
- lay persons who seek counselling or a new perspective to an issue in their life.
Note: This worskshop is designed for artists, drama professions counsellors and lay persons, with and intent to teach the tools which have various practical applications in life. You do not necessarily be an artist.
why attend this workshop the benefits:
- You will get awarded a certificate and the end of this level.
- We also have 3 other levels after which you will be equipped to practice as an Art therapist.
applications of art therapy with various age groups for various issues
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Children :The left brain is the verbal part of the brain, while the right brain is primarily visual. Working with images can be a powerful way to contain, represent and work through powerful material that is not ready for conscious awareness. It is especially useful for working with trauma, helping to reintegrate the traumatic memory in ways simply not possible through conventional talk therapy. And let's not forget that art is fun! It can be useful to help and treat children with language and learning disabilities
Teens: “Drama Therapy” Short plays focusing on teen issues. Skits are performed for an audience of students, parents and faculty, and focus on a variety of issues that students might experience such as drinking and driving, dating, dysfunctional families, alcohol abuse etc. Students have the opportunity to reflect, discuss concerns and ask for help .art therapy is beneficial to people who are suffering from mood disorders, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, and language and learning disabilities. Art therapy can be used to help people manage physical and emotional problems by using creative activities to express emotions. It provides a way for people to come to terms with emotional conflicts, increase self-awareness, and express unspoken and often unconscious concerns about their illness and their lives.
Others: Art therapy has been used with bone marrow transplant patients, people with eating disorders, emotionally impaired young people, disabled people, the chronically ill, chemically addicted individuals, sexually abused adolescents, caregivers of cancer patients.
Teens: “Drama Therapy” Short plays focusing on teen issues. Skits are performed for an audience of students, parents and faculty, and focus on a variety of issues that students might experience such as drinking and driving, dating, dysfunctional families, alcohol abuse etc. Students have the opportunity to reflect, discuss concerns and ask for help .art therapy is beneficial to people who are suffering from mood disorders, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, and language and learning disabilities. Art therapy can be used to help people manage physical and emotional problems by using creative activities to express emotions. It provides a way for people to come to terms with emotional conflicts, increase self-awareness, and express unspoken and often unconscious concerns about their illness and their lives.
Others: Art therapy has been used with bone marrow transplant patients, people with eating disorders, emotionally impaired young people, disabled people, the chronically ill, chemically addicted individuals, sexually abused adolescents, caregivers of cancer patients.
train the trainers
We also offer a series of Leveled workshops. For more information please click here.
We also offer a series of Leveled workshops. For more information please click here.
drama therapy
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Drama therapy applies techniques from theatre to the process of
psychotherapeutic healing. It emerged as a field in the late 1970’s from
hospital and community programs where it was first used with clients to produce
plays and later was integrated with improvisation and process drama methods.
The focus in drama therapy is on helping individuals grow and heal by taking on
and practicing new roles.
While much drama therapy aims at helping people who are in therapy, drama therapists have extended their applications beyond clinical contexts to enrich the lives of at-risk individuals, to prevent problems, and to enhance wellness of healthy people. Many of the skills for such extensions require a measure of training psychological training as well as a strong basis in theatre.
Drama and therapy have been natural partners for at least the last 350 centuries! Archeological evidence suggests that early humans began to make art paintings, sculpture, music, dance, and drama between 45,000 and 35,000 years ago at the same time they became capable of symbolic, metaphoric thought. As part of this creative explosion, shamans incorporated the arts into their religious and healing practices. Dance and drama, in particular, were used in rites to create sympathetic and contagious magic and to embody myths and rituals. That the arts have been connected to healing and meaning-making since their origins, shows how vitally important they are to health and to civilization.
At base drama and psychology are both the study of human behavior two sides of the same coin. Psychology is the study of thoughts, emotions and behavior; drama actively analyzes and presents the thoughts, emotions and behavior of characters for an audience to see and understand. Much of dramatic literature addresses the psychological, social, and cultural conditions of humanity and, thus, serves as a natural vehicle for actually helping real people with problems more consciously address their problems.
Just as psychotherapy treats people who have difficulties with their thoughts, emotions and behavior, drama therapy uses drama processes (games, improvisation, storytelling, role play) and products (puppets, masks, plays/performances) to help people understand their thoughts and emotions better or to improve their behavior. However, unlike most types of therapy which rely purely on talking (psychoanalysis was, after all, called “the talking cure”), drama therapy relies on taking action on doing things!
Depending on the goals and needs of the client, the drama therapist chooses a method (or several) that will achieve the desired combination of understanding, emotional release, and learning of new behavior. Some methods, such as drama games, improvisation, role play, developmental transformations, sociodrama and psychodrama are very process-oriented and unscripted. The work is done within the therapy session and not presented to an audience. Other methods, such as Playback Theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed, and the performance of plays are more formal and presentational, involving an audience. Puppets, masks, and rituals can be used as part of performance or as process techniques within a therapy session.
Certain techniques: drama games, improvisation, role play, sociodrama, developmental transformations, rituals, masks, puppets and some types of performances involve fictional work. The client pretends to be a character different from him or herself. This can expand the client’s role repertoire (or the number of types of roles that can be accessed for use in real life) or it can allow the client to explore a similar role to one he or she plays, but under the guise of “not-me-but-someone-like-me.” Other techniques, such as Psychodrama, Therapeutic Spiral Model, Playback Theatre, Theater of the Oppressed and autobiographical performances, allow the client to explore his or her life directly. Clients need to have good ego strength to be able to do this kind of non-fiction work because it requires an honest, searching look at oneself.
While much drama therapy aims at helping people who are in therapy, drama therapists have extended their applications beyond clinical contexts to enrich the lives of at-risk individuals, to prevent problems, and to enhance wellness of healthy people. Many of the skills for such extensions require a measure of training psychological training as well as a strong basis in theatre.
Drama and therapy have been natural partners for at least the last 350 centuries! Archeological evidence suggests that early humans began to make art paintings, sculpture, music, dance, and drama between 45,000 and 35,000 years ago at the same time they became capable of symbolic, metaphoric thought. As part of this creative explosion, shamans incorporated the arts into their religious and healing practices. Dance and drama, in particular, were used in rites to create sympathetic and contagious magic and to embody myths and rituals. That the arts have been connected to healing and meaning-making since their origins, shows how vitally important they are to health and to civilization.
At base drama and psychology are both the study of human behavior two sides of the same coin. Psychology is the study of thoughts, emotions and behavior; drama actively analyzes and presents the thoughts, emotions and behavior of characters for an audience to see and understand. Much of dramatic literature addresses the psychological, social, and cultural conditions of humanity and, thus, serves as a natural vehicle for actually helping real people with problems more consciously address their problems.
Just as psychotherapy treats people who have difficulties with their thoughts, emotions and behavior, drama therapy uses drama processes (games, improvisation, storytelling, role play) and products (puppets, masks, plays/performances) to help people understand their thoughts and emotions better or to improve their behavior. However, unlike most types of therapy which rely purely on talking (psychoanalysis was, after all, called “the talking cure”), drama therapy relies on taking action on doing things!
Depending on the goals and needs of the client, the drama therapist chooses a method (or several) that will achieve the desired combination of understanding, emotional release, and learning of new behavior. Some methods, such as drama games, improvisation, role play, developmental transformations, sociodrama and psychodrama are very process-oriented and unscripted. The work is done within the therapy session and not presented to an audience. Other methods, such as Playback Theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed, and the performance of plays are more formal and presentational, involving an audience. Puppets, masks, and rituals can be used as part of performance or as process techniques within a therapy session.
Certain techniques: drama games, improvisation, role play, sociodrama, developmental transformations, rituals, masks, puppets and some types of performances involve fictional work. The client pretends to be a character different from him or herself. This can expand the client’s role repertoire (or the number of types of roles that can be accessed for use in real life) or it can allow the client to explore a similar role to one he or she plays, but under the guise of “not-me-but-someone-like-me.” Other techniques, such as Psychodrama, Therapeutic Spiral Model, Playback Theatre, Theater of the Oppressed and autobiographical performances, allow the client to explore his or her life directly. Clients need to have good ego strength to be able to do this kind of non-fiction work because it requires an honest, searching look at oneself.
drama professionals
Most drama therapists come from the world of theatre. They are individuals who realize the healing power of drama through therapeutic experiences they’ve had in their education or career and want to facilitate change and growth in others. Many recall that in college they were torn between majoring in psychology or theatre and decided to follow the theatre path. They want to use drama to help others in a direct way or to use theatre as a social change agent, rather than only as entertainment or education.
previousworkshops
art and drama therapy: An Experiential Insight,
by Seema Omar from Sithum Colombo in association with Waterbirds, Israel.
26th March, 2011, 1 day, 9:30 to 5:00pm, Kilpauk, Chennai
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Seema Omar, (M.A. Applied Psychology, specialised in Counselling )an Expert with over 15 years or experience with vocational training, she runs a counselling and Wellness Service Centre called Sithum and has been working closely with Dr.Nira Kaplansky and a team of Art therapists from Israel. She comes to India from Colombo, to share with us her vast knowledge and shares techniques she has found extremely effective in her practices.
In this workshop, she will give us an insight into Art and Drama therapy and shares some effective tools, play-way methods to address real- life issues which you can incorporate in your professional practices. Seema has been instrumental in getting krita to take on this initiative and popularise Art therapy and PTSD by spreading high quality knowledge and supervision amongst therapeutic communities worldwide.
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In this workshop, she will give us an insight into Art and Drama therapy and shares some effective tools, play-way methods to address real- life issues which you can incorporate in your professional practices. Seema has been instrumental in getting krita to take on this initiative and popularise Art therapy and PTSD by spreading high quality knowledge and supervision amongst therapeutic communities worldwide.
also visit our blog