Empower Your Classroom: Transformative Teaching through Drama (1 week in Athens)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Dates

2024: 07.10.2024 – 12.10.2024 | 18.11.2024 – 23.11.2024

2025: 20.01.2025 – 25.01.2025 | 10.03.2025 – 15.03.2025 | 12.05.2025 – 17.05.2025 | 14.07.2025 – 19.07.2025 | 08.09.2025 – 13.09.2025 | 06.10.2025 – 11.10.2025 | 03.11.2025 – 08.11.2025

2026: To be announced (Ask for dates)

Intro

An intensive course for students, teachers, team leaders and inspiring educators in all disciplines.

This week-long course will focus on techniques and theory through practice in how we use our creativity to realize our potential and become ourselves. During this seminar participants will learn how to use drama therapy and psychodrama techniques so to be able to perceive their inner theater and the unconscious roles they play. This course is really based on the art of relating with one self through drama games, mental and physical improvisation and psychodramatic representations. A week of creativity, acting and self-awareness in timeless Athens!

Objectives:

The aim of this hands-on course is for participants to learn to relate better and more effectively to both themselves and others using their creativity, spontaneity and playfulness. We observe, we act, we communicate in non-verbal ways, learning how to be ourselves and be together while embracing our diversity.

Modules and course schedule:

Each teaching day consists of a theoretical-philosophical-existential part and a practical workshop. Workshops are designed to put the elements discussed and taught in the theoretical part into practice. The precise length of each section will vary by topic. Notes and handouts will be given each day, and participants will have the opportunity to develop their own materials within the workshop.

– Module 1: Introduction and group warm up: From abstract to concrete. Interacting and relating

– Module 2: Theater Therapy Theory (Psychodrama+Dramatherapy+ Playtherapy), drama games : How theater is healing?

– Module 3: Music warm up and drama therapy healing stories : Our inner dramas

– Module 4: Using psycho-genealogy and dramatization : Relating with the help of ancestors

– Module 5: Using metaphors and mythological archetypes : Hypnodramatic healing imagery

Follow-up:

Attendees will receive handouts and self-evaluation forms as well as feedback forms on the course itself. Social networking will be set up to maintain contact after the end of the course and continue any discussions begun during the course, as well as to exchange feedback on how the skills taught in the course are being implemented.

Additional modules are available for subject-specific topics, and these can be delivered at a later date or via webinar.

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Destination:

Athens. The city with the most glorious history in the world, a city worshipped by gods and people, a magical city. The enchanting capital of Greece has always been a birthplace for civilization. It is the city where democracy was born and most of the wise men of ancient times. The most important civilization of ancient world flourished in Athens and relives through some of the world’s most formidable edifices.

Who hasn’t heard of the Acropolis of Athens? Photos and history of the most famous archaeological monument in Europe is admired by thousands of people. Acropolis is nominated to be one of the 7 wonders of modern world. In fact the trademark of Athens is one of the favorites. The Holy Rock of Acropolis dates back to the 5th BC, the famous Golden Age of Periklis. Athens met times of bloom and decline, but still shines under the Attic sky gazing the future. Still sparkling like the marbles of Parthenon and the limpid white of Pentelic marble.