| Drama
Therapy offers participants the possibility to explore
a variety of dramatic processes to gain new insights
and express their individuality.
Role play, story-making, dramatic enactment,
character work, theatre games, the use of masks,
puppetry, art and movement, can assist a person to
express his or her feelings, difficulties and
experiences.
It can also help participants embark upon a
voyage of self-discovery from which new perspectives
into old patterns, current challenges and solutions
can emerge.
Drama Therapy encourages exploration of new
roles that are available, and fosters a spontaneous,
authentic and confident attitude.
Application:
At Expression
LaSalle, drama therapy can be used in group
and individual contexts.
Participants
are not required to have any previous drama
experience, however, a good capacity for movement is
recommended.
Group
Format:
Drama
therapy groups are weekly meetings that are two hours
in length.
They provide a safe therapeutic environment in
which group members have the opportunity to witness
and be witnessed, as they strive to find, acknowledge
and strengthen their potential for evoking positive
change.
Individual
Format:
Individual
drama therapy is a weekly meeting that is one hour
in length and where a member determines the subject
and goals of the therapeutic work to be done
according to his or her needs.
The average length of a rotation of
individual therapy is twenty (20) sessions and a
member may participate in a maximum of three (3)
non-consecutive rotations of therapy.
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