Liberation-based peer supervision, a format of peer supervision the facilitators have been developing through heuristic inquiry, invites drama therapists to utilize role and embodiment to reflect on how colonialism, capitalism, and racism operate through us as clinicians. Beginning with a warm-up based on Powell's (2016) Embodied Multicultural Assessment, participants will identify 1-2 personal roles that perpetuate colonialism, capitalism, and racism. Participants will work in small groups to embody, perform, and reflect on the roles they chose. Participants committed to cultural response/ability and interested in creating their own liberation-based peer supervision spaces are especially encouraged to join.
Through Autobiographical Therapeutic Performance (ATP), participants will explore formative moments in their lives and identify self-limiting beliefs transmitted by family, society, as well as personal and collective traumas. The workshop will include an active engagement with memories, images and emotions. Participants will explore turning points in their lives, re-decision points that may inform new life affirming narratives, such as stories of strength, creativity and resilience. These may be utilized as resources for living a richer inner life and creating a vision for a meaningful and fulfilling future. The facilitators will guide participants in a process where they can experience the power of creating a new narrative or marking a turning point in their lives. During the workshop participants will be provided with a variety of drama therapeutic interventions, leading to a five minute performance in front of the group. Facilitators will illustrate their approach to self-revelatory performance, while guiding the participants through a process of setting their therapeutic goals and following through with the creation of a five minutes theatre piece as a therapeutic act. This full day workshop will explore themes using improvisation, embodied imagery, psychodramatic tools, and Playback Theatre and integrating Role Theory, Transactional Analysis, and Archetypal Psychology.
