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Ritual Theatre - Theatre of Healing: Ritual Theatre in Personal Developm

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Ritual theatre is a powerful healing system that has beenpractised since ancient times by early societies and in tribalcommunities. It has the ability to effect deep transformation inits participants, support growth and development, and resolvepersonal issues.This book considers the relevance of ritual theatre incontemporary life and describes how it is being used as a highlycathartic therapeutic process. With contributions from leadingexperts in the field of dramatherapy, the book brings together a broad spectrum of approaches to ritual theatre as a healingsystem. It explores the anthropological and tribal roots ofdramatic ritual and proposes that ritual theatre finds its mostpotent expression in personal development work. The practicalapplication of ritual theatre in various clinical settings isdiscussed and the final chapters explore the possibilities of ritual theatre as performance.Offering a comprehensive discourse on the theory, applicationand potential of ritual theatre, this book will be an essential text for all students and practitioners of dramatherapy, artstherapists, psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors andtheatre professionals.
Foreword. Renee Emunah, Director, Drama Therapy Program, California Institute of Integral Studies, US. The Contributors. Introduction. Claire Schrader, Director, Making Moves, UK. Part I. The Roots of Ritual Theatre. 1. What is Ritual Theatre? Claire Schrader. 2. The Roots of Ritual Theatre: AnAnthropological Perspective. Sue Jennings, Honorary Fellow of Roehampton University, UK. 3. Towards a Meta-Psychology of Ritual in Drama Therapy.Gary Raucher, Core Faculty, Drama Therapy Program, California Institute of Integral Studies, US. 4. ''We Don't Need Therapy, We Have Ritual'': An Overviewof the Work of Malidoma Somé and a Personal Experience of a Grief Ritual. Claire Schrader. Part II. Ritual Theatre in Personal Development. 5. Myth-a-drama: Dramatherapy as Personal Development. Claire Schrader. 6. Myth-a-drama in Practice. Claire Schrader. 7. Paul Rebillot's Modern Day Rites of Passage.Steve Mitchell, Director, Pathfinder Studio, UK. 8. Pathfinder Studio's Quest for Self Cultivation through the ''Rituals'' of Theatre Making. Steve Mitchell. 9.Myth, Mask and Movement: Ritual Theater in a Community Setting by Sheila Rubin, Marriage and Family Therapist and Registered Drama Therapist, US, andCarrie Todd, Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Drama Therapist and Forensic Counsellor, US. 10. The Ritual Theatre Group by Claire Schrader. PartIII. Ritual Theatre in Clinical Practice. 11. Theatre of Resilience: Ritual and Attachment with Marginalized Groups - ''We are all Born Dramatised andRitualised''. Sue Jennings. 12. Ritual Theatre and Existential Changes. Roger Grainger, Honorary Research Fellow, Roehampton University, UK. 13.Psychodrama and Ritual Theatre. Sylvia Israel, Trainer, Educator and Practitioner of Psychodrama, Registered Drama Therapist and Marriage and FamilyTherapist, US, and Elizabeth Plummer, Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Director of The Santa Barbara Psychodrama Center, US. 14. The Theatre of Self Expression. Steve Mitchell. 15. Connecting with theDivine Feminine: Ritual Theatre in a Forensic Psychiatric Setting. Debra Colkett, SRAT (Drama), UK. 16. Metamyth and Dramatherapy: An InnovativeApproach for People with Epilepsy. Thalia Valeta, SRAT (Drama), UK. Part IV. Ritual Theatre as Performance. 17. Eartheart and Motherblood:Transformational Theatre Experiments in Peace Making. Saphira Linden, Director and Co-founder of The Omega Transpersonal Drama Therapy CertificateProgram, US, and Susan Nisenbaum Becker, actor, playwright and poet, US. 18. The Cosmic Celebration: Ritual Theater as Spiritual Awakening: A MajorInternational Ritual Theatre Pageant. Saphira Linden. Resources and Further Reading.
This book casts light from a variety of angles onto the basic idea, strong in nearly all of us, that theatre has some important connections with healing. Whether they come to it through catharsis, or the anthropology of ritual, or dramatic practice, all the contributors share the belief that it is good for people to enact myths, and that this initiation will open up beneficial self-discoveries.
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