The presenter will share theories about the lies we tell children about death, her methods using drama therapy when working with children is the nexus of the workshop. As drama therapists our call to action is entering the scene during the most climatic phases of our clients lives. Playing with death forces us to confront ourselves and open to our clients‚ which includes the infinite variable of religious, cultural, and generational differences. No one individual will cope with the painful truth of death the same way. As clinicians we work with clients across the lifespan, and must include children in the drama, included stories about death. When a child's life interfaces with death how can drama therapy enter the scene to transcend the margins into spaces of care, power and therefor possibility? This workshop explores how drama therapy is used to tell the truth to children about death and do so in more tolerable ways. Extending our ability to confront the immutable truth that life is living towards death is our call to action. Death is all too frequent as wars are waged and the spread of viruses create death that affects us all. No one is immune to death no matter the manor with which is occurs, past present and future. We are all impacted by death and must explore our own broken attachments to the ones we love.
