Dramatherapy and violence against women

Violence Against Women, 2020

This article examines the experience of eight graduate students in the drama therapy program at Lesley University when creating and performing a theater piece centered around gender-based violence. The performance piece, A Space to Speak, used the performers’ real-life stories to highlight their vastly different, yet strikingly similar, experiences and invited the audience to examine their own relationship to those stories. A description of the process used to create and perform the piece is followed by a discussion of the impact the process had on the performers and audience members.

The way in which a craft or school of thought comes into being has a definite impact upon its nature: In contrast to other disciplines, dramatherapy does not have a ‘Guru figure’ that represents it, nor a single founder who can claim paternity over it. In its modern version, the field was born out of the social and political milieu, the philosophical concerns and aesthetic explorations that took place simultaneously in several geographical regions during the 60s and 70s. This search followed parallel paths, all of which were connected with the use of theatre, drama, and the arts, with therapeutic purposes. Dramatherapy thus came into being as a movement, evolving in the tradition of pluralism and dialogue, in what might be called ‘a feminist mode.’ This chapter examines some of the women-oriented bases of the field, and illustrates its claim by presenting a Model of Deconstructing Dreams and Stories created by Susana Pendzik, which is based on subjectivity, associative thinking, and pluralism.

Arts Therapies in Psychiatric Rehabilitation , 2021

In a traditional society, particularly in Sri Lanka, a culturally responsive dramatherapy practice is of significance for psychiatric rehabilitation. Integration of spiritual teachings, and utilization of a wide variety of signs, symbols, and concepts pertaining to the belief systems, support the therapy, enabling the client towards exploring repressed subjective material. Also, the use of archetypes, in this process, helps the client, to regulate thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

The exploration of devised theatre towards producing case study scenarios is at the core of current drama practice as a powerful means of both giving voice to vulnerable community groups and contributing to inter-professional education training purposes. The focus of the paper is on collaboration with colleagues working on ‘Daphne’, a European Union research project exploring social justice and human rights. The paper considers the value of these drama practices and explores a teaching method of writing monologues with a group of drama students in HE who use devising techniques. The paper begins by first briefly presenting the theoretical reference, the methodology, my approach to the devising process, the practical work and procedure as introduced to the students and examples of devised monologues. Finally, I critically discuss the work to conclude that drama can give voice to individuals who are not properly respected and be used for the representation of data.

2015

Abstract:<br> This paper examines the controversies of femininity and<br> masculinity. It obviously takes the side of situating gender<br> reality and rationality within patriarchal structure and argues<br> that its misinterpretation starting from origin of creation has<br> culminated into building up a distinctive dichotomy between<br> males and females. As a fair way out, the paper balances the<br> schools of thoughts, despite its resonating string attached to<br> women. These strings are visible in the cases of key informants<br> presented for the study which conclude that the deployment of a<br> methodological approach like Theatre for Development (TfD)<br> could well be a strong ground upon which voices can jointly<br> explored, advocated, negotiated and engendered the intervention<br> needed for the (re)humanisation of the "other".<br>

Theatre has been a democratic literary medium to constitute a synergy of resistance and activism and it allows its representational mode to encapsulate issues like gender with intensity and fervor. It cannot be denied that women are projected in the stereotypical patriarchal roles which reinforce the feminine subjugation and inferiorization. The assimilation of violence into the identity-formation of woman is becoming a norm, reinforced by multiple patriarchal strategies and ideologies. Invasion on the woman's body is taken as natural. This violence imposed on the

Women's Studies International Forum, 1984

Synopsis-This paper looks at the question of a feminist methodology and argues that the researcher and her aims are crucial, rather than the particular techniques she may use. A broader definition of 'methodology' is suggested, describing the process or feminist approach to the research, which starts from women's experience and can include qualitative or quantitative methods. A research project using drama with adolescent girls is analysed to see how far drama can be seen as a qualitative feminist method. It is argued that drama cannot be inherently feminist, but in this case was used in a feminist way because of the researcher's feminist approach.

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014

The purpose is to discuss the project titles Work and dignity life for women victims of violence and especially drama written during the project. The main aim of the text is to present and define the new kind of drama-transformative drama and the way of use it in working with women-prisoners-the victim of violence. The text promotes the new, unknown method of therapy and the result of it-raising the women's consciousness and their self-reliance. It is also worth to underline the transformative drama is a new category of literature-it is an applied literature. The drama and the method of use it can be successfully and effective used in working with marginalized people.

International Journal of Pentecostal Missiology, 2019

Unwarranted trust brings relational tension that could be avoided using more caution. Hence advocating “trust” is sometimes ill-advised. Inter-culturally, trust is likely to be particularly fraught, as intercultural gaps result in reduced levels of mutual understanding. Breaches of trust, both historical and contemporary, probably contribute to much mission work in recent times being short-term. Issues related to trust, such as time-keeping, how to ask questions, levels of expectation arising from particular ways of phrasing things, and financial predictability, are culturally dependent. Vulnerable missionaries, those who use local languages and local resources, can through making fewer demands

Ejército Nacional. Sello Editorial, 2023

Este libro, inicialmente, publicado por Planeta Editores, tiene como objeto el estudio de los cambios en la orientación de las FFMM de Colombia que pasaron de una estrategia de derrota y aniquilamiento militar de la guerrilla a una estrategia de debilitamiento progresivo ("derrota estratégica") para sentar a la guerrilla en la mesa de negociaciones. Cambio de estrategia y mentalidad que llevó a las FFMM a participar en las mesas de negociación de paz con las FARC y el ELN en La Habana entre 2014 y 2016.