Reflections on Dance/Drama Therapy- Notes from Drama Therapist?

I really loved the drama therapy class before Thanksgiving. I felt like I got to interact with people in the class in a way that I hadn't before - I think the exercises speed up the process of bringing people, connecting, opening up. Through play and laughter we can access deep patterns and emotions relatively quickly. Did he leave notes of the activities we did, or did any one take good notes on them? I'd love to have a record of that.


I am left wondering: in what capacities can we incorporate methods from the various art therapies in our work without art-therapy specific licenses? Are there things we can't or shouldn't do? In this respect, how do we approach legal limits or organizational policy around touch, especially in drama or movement work? I know we started to talk about this in class, but I still feel unclear about it.


I wish we had gotten to spend the class today just moving! It makes me realize how wonderful it has been to learn through directly practicing in the course this semester. It's very frustrating to sit in chairs and think and talk about the power of moving and non-verbal work! I am definitely someone who experiences things in an embodied way and is very aware of storing memory and emotion in my body. I am definitely interested in incorporating movement/body based healing practices into whatever work I do. It is interesting to try to think about how to incorporate it into community organizing work (which I'm sure people are doing).


 I'm really interested in how group work can lead to organizing. For example, in my placement last year I ran a group for high school student's who felt bullied. Towards the end we started another group, for students who wanted to work on changing the school's culture of bullying. There was some overlap of who was in the group. I think it would have been interesting, if I had been there longer, to move the process group itself into an action group. I think art can be really powerful here- how can we use art to move from trauma into powerful action/social change work? That's something I am excited to explore/ learn from others about.