seminars
OVERVIEW OF THE SEMINARS DRAMA/THEATRE THERAPY 2022/23
This seminar cycle offers an introduction to basic methods and working approaches of drama/-and theatre therapy and is aimed at all those who are active in fields of art, social work, pedagogy and therapy and want to expand their methods in a group or individual setting.
To bring along are playfulness, curiosity, joy in experimentation and interest in new approaches. Pre-training in acting is not a prerequisite.
The modules are structured as weekends complete in themselves. The participants get to know a variety of drama therapy methods that they can apply in their own field of work and use for projects.
Workshop times: Every Thursday evening to Sunday noon. The Thursday evenings are led by Susanna Stich-Bender and Birgit Fritz or someone else from the ÖGDTT core-team and serve the transfer between the workshop modules and Q&A. A person from the ÖGDTT will also be present during each module. Translations are offered if required. All seminars/workshops will cost 275€ (Reductions upon request and possibilities).
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Workshop 4: 24. – 27.08.2023 with Susanna Stich-Bender and Birgit Fritz in SCHLOSS GOLDEGG
Healing spaces inside and out – what works, what heals?
In this module we explore healing spaces within ourselves and in nature and combine the fruitful methods of drama therapy with spiritual and eco-therapeutic approaches.
Robert Greenaway, one of the pioneers of eco-psychology, described eco-therapy as "the process of healing the human-nature relationship through connection and reconnection with natural processes."
The perception of a larger network of life helps us to create and co-shape living connections and to find a language for this interaction. Using different methods and working with rituals, we create transitions between inner experience and external action and thus create the possibility of transformation and healing. The ritual acts like a vessel that provides support when exploring new spaces and experiences. It conveys the familiar and facilitates the confrontation with the new and uncertain. Evermore valid models of becoming and passing, such as the Xiré of the Orixás, support us in this.
Susanna Stich-Bender is a theatre therapist, theatre pedagogue, eco-therapist, psychotherapist (HPG), actress and coach. She is involved in her theatre and project work at various clinics and institutions in Bavaria and works in her specialist area with health authorities and therapeutic networks (Therapy Network Eating Disorder in Munich/Ingolstadt) for addiction prevention and aftercare. At the Danuviusklinik Pfaffenhofen/ Ingolstadt she has been leading theatre therapy groups since 2005 and also works in an individual setting. In addition, she is on the road with eco-therapeutic projects in the landscapes and mountains of Germany and Austria in cooperation with Danu e.V. She gives further training on theatre/eco-therapy and is a specialist in the field of eating disorders for the training Drama Therapy Switzerland.
Dr. Birgit Fritz is a theatre therapist and pedagogue, Feldenkrais teacher. The roots of her theatre work and the themes of her research work lie in the emancipatory folk theatre of Latin America. She is a lecturer for transformative theatre work at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg (social work), leads autopietic theatre year groups, seminars and workshops on diverse topics at home and abroad. From 2018-2021, she led the open drama therapy group of Group 94, a center for cancer sufferers and their relatives in Vienna. She now lives in Feistritz im Rosental, Carinthia.
Publications: "The Courage to Become", "InExActArt – a handbook on autopoietic theatre work according to Augusto Boal", "Forum Theatre and Democracy in India", "Hamlet and the Baker’s Son" – the Autobiography of Augusto Boal" and the translation "Orixás on the Divan. On the Importance of the Spiritual Forces of Nature in Psychotherapy and Art Therapy" by Tina de Souza. www.birgitfritz.at
Workshop 5: 03.-05.11.2023 with Eva Nagl-Pölzer and Ilse Lang in SCHLOSS GOLDEGG
Consciousness through embodiment. Sensing- Consciousness in spiritual-systemic constellation work
Autopoietic constellation work according to Siegfried Essen
In constellation work, awareness takes place through active, physical comprehension. The complexity of a concern often cannot be grasped with linear thinking. This is achieved with another complex system, namely the body. Externalizing and embodying are the means of using the body as a medium and tool for awareness and presence.
In this workshop we deal with the basic concepts of spiritual-systemic constellation work, such as the ego-self-embodiment. We work in alternation of theoretical inputs, exercises and constellations of personal and social (collective) aspects. The difference between embodiment and scenic play can be experienced. This workshop is a training in sensing-consciousness and does not replace therapeutic work.
More information: What is sensing- awareness? Decisive for the autopoietic constellation work are the development of the sensing -consciousness of everyone, the gradual confidence in one's own physical understanding, the ability to resonate and the empowerment of the individual in the whole. This applies to everyone, the excluded and the enclosed parts of the system, the spectators, the representatives and the leadership. Everyone finds his/her place, his/her function for the whole. It is essential that this process can be carried out through embodying and trial acting. Each developmental step of an individual in a constellation is created by the empowerment of the individual.
Autopoietic constellation work assumes that each representative is fully competent to intuitively perceive their own place and their own effect within the system.
Eva Nagl-Pölzer is a coach, consultant and trainer with a wealth of experience and knowledge. With spiritual-systemic constellation and embodiment work, she is fascinated by the wisdom of the body, which is expressed in the sensing consciousness. Since 2021, she has headed a constellation salon for social and economic policy concerns. Her way of working has deepened through dealing with transitions in hospice work. Eva wants to contribute to the development of individuals and a good life for all with the spiritual-systemic constellation work.
Ilse Lang has been accompanying the conscious development of people in their personality, of managers in their effectiveness and of teams in their cooperation as a coach in business for twenty years. For her spiritual-systemic constellation and embodiment work is the most helpful method of our time for them to grasp the complexity of a challenge in the interaction of topics and forces. Ilse trusts out of many constellations the surprises that arise from the field of tension between ones own wishes, resistances, fears, obstacles, contradictions, longings,... as possibilities. www.ilselang.at