Dramatherapy: Past Presentations

Dramatherapy: Past Presentations

Conference Presentations

  • 14th-17th September 2022: European Consortium of Arts Therapies in Education (ECArTE) Conference (Vilnius, Lithuania)
  • Memory-Shaping Connections In the Arts Therapies

    The Memories We Never Had : Workshop co-presentation with Antigone Ikkos-Serrano (dramatherapist) on the creative distortion of memories, through the metaphor of Plato’s cave.

  • 30th September-2nd October 2022: British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth) Conference (Nottingham, UK)

    Weathering the Storm: Self-Care in an Age of Burnout 

    Don’t tell me to Breathe! An angry way to take care of your mindfulness…: Workshop co-presentation with Antigone Ikkos-Serrano (dramatherapist) on responsibility and work ethics behind the notion of self-care.

    An exploration of Hopelessness – perspectives of two dramatherapists: Paper co-presentation with Elena Skreka (dramatherapist) on systemic/social, psychological and philosophical dynamics of work with refugees.

  • 7th-8th May 2018: European Federation of Dramatherapy (EFD) 5th Conference (online)

Who is Godot?

If they come, then what?: Workshop co-presentation with Antigone Ikkos-Serrano (dramatherapist) on the theme of waiting, searching and finding.

  • 4th-6th October 2019: Play, Perform, Learn, Grow (PPLG) (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Bridging Communities, Practices and the World

The Giant’s Garden: Workshop co-presentation with Elena Skreka (dramatherapist) on the use of Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant in dramatherapy work with refugees and asylum seekers.

  • 11th-14th September 2019: European Consortium of Arts Therapies in Education (ECArTE) Conference (Alcalá de Henares, Spain)

Imagining Windmills: Trust, Truth and the Unknown in Arts Therapies

Whispers of the Giants Within: Workshop co-presentation with Antigone Ikkos-Serrano (dramatherapist) on the use of voice work and embodied shadow theatre in dramatherapy.

Healing the Wound: Participation in the Awesome Puppet Company puppetry performance, creation of shadow puppets and puppet animation.

Photos from performance and rehearsals:
Photo credits: Gerben Roefs 

      • 7th-9th September 2018: British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth) Conference (Chester, UK)

    Identity: Moving, progressing and coming back to self

    Echoing Shadows: Workshop co-presentation with Antigone Ikkos-Serrano (dramatherapist) on the use of voice and shadow puppetry in dramatherapy.

    • 1st-3rd June 2018: Royal Anthropological Institute & British Museum (London, UK)

    Art, Materiality and Representation

    Shadows of Culture in Traditional Greek Shadow Puppetry: Paper on the psychological aspects of the cultural phenomenon of Greek traditional shadow puppetry.

    • 13th-15th April 2018: Play, Perform, Learn, Grow (PPLG) (Thessaloniki, Greece)

    Bridging Communities, Practices and the World

    Shadows’ Playground: Workshop co-presentation with Elena Skreka (dramatherapist) on the use of shadow theatre and physical theatre in dramatherapy work.

    Photo credits: Mohamed Sulaiman Labat

      • 6th-7th April 2018: Annual Storytelling Symposium (The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling, University of South Wales, Cardiff, Wales)

      Storytelling for Refuge/Storytelling as Refuge: Workshop co-presentation with Chance Marshall (dramatherapist) on the use of storytelling in dramatherapy work with refugees and asylum seekers.

      Workshop facilitation

      • March 2021: Central Dramatherapy Alumni Network (CDthAN) (Online / UK)

      A story of stories: Co-facilitated online workshop on the use of stories in arts therapies.

      Training, Lectures & Other

      • 8th February 2021: Visiting Lecturer (Anglia Ruskin University) (Online / UK)

      Dramatherapy with Refugees & Asylum Seekers: Shared lecture with Sasha Nemeckova (dramatherapist) for MA Dramatherapy and Music Therapy students.

      • 3rd July 2020: Central Dramatherapy Alumni Network (CDthAN) (Online / UK)

      Arts Therapies in Working with Refugees & Asylum Seekers: Webinar for dramatherapists and other psychological therapists.

      • 30 March 2020: Visiting Lecturer (Anglia Ruskin University) (Online / UK)

      Dramatherapy with Refugees & Asylum Seekers: Lecture for MA Dramatherapy and Music Therapy students.

      • 27 September 2017: Visiting lecturer (University of Portsmouth, School of Architecture) (Portsmouth, UK)

      Locating the Imaginary – Stories and Place: Studio workshop for BA3 Interior Architecture and Design students.

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      • July 2016: Residential facilitator / presenter (Irinis Garden / Anna Emmanouelidou) (Aridea, Greece)

      One-day workshop for systemic psychotherapists on the use of Theatre of the Oppressed and Drama Process techniques in work with families and other groups.

      • 27 June 2015: Prozac Café (Nicosia, Cyprus)

      In My Desert, Someone Made Me Tea: Performance with stories of people with psychiatric issues, edited by Anna Emmanouelidou (Systemic Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Educator). Open discussion on “Madness and Normality,” coordinated by Anna Emmanouilidou.

      Publications

      a. Articles

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      b. Books

      Forthcoming: “Dramatherapy and Greek Traditional Shadow Puppetry” in Dramatherapy: The Nature of Interruption, edited by Richard Hougham and Bryn Jones. Taylor & Francis / Routledge.

      c. Peer Reviews

      I am a peer reviewer for Dramatherapy, the professional journal of the British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth).

      Testimonials

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