Research Colloquia

The research colloquia are open, quarterly events led by Anke Schäfer. Registration is required for participation. Please use the form below.

Upcoming research colloquium:

Save the date!
Thursday, May 16th, from 7 p.m. – 8.30 p.m.

Be very welcome to the Research Colloquium

DRAMA HIVE – Drama Therapy as Public Practice – with Rowena Tam & Cassandra Brennan

We are very happy to host our Canadian colleagues Rowena Tam and Cassandra Brennan at our upcoming research colloquium. Rowena and Brennan will share some of the current knowledge and approaches to public practice drama therapy in community settings. They argue that a public practice of drama therapy might be informed by decolonizing methods, liberation psychology, third spaces, public practice art therapy and the Art Hive model. A case vignette of Drama Hives will be presented to highlight their experimentations with drama therapy as a form of public practice that might offer a more holistic approach to care that is complementary to the movement for decolonization.

Short bios of our guest presenters: 

Cassandra  (they/them) is a non-binary settler currently residing on the land of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and Haudenosaunee in Ontario, Canada. Cassandra practices as a Drama Therapist & Registered Psychotherapist working with children and adults both virtually and in person. Cassandra is also a Level One DvT practitioner which informs much of their living research. The topic of public practice drama therapy has accompanied them since they finished their Master’s degree and they remain hopeful for this exciting evolution to continue.

Rowena Tam (she/her) is a drama therapist, Concordia University Ph.D. Student, and guest living and working in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyaang/Montréal, on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory. Rowena has public and private clinical experience working with frontline workers at Indigenous-serving organizations, women and Inuit men involved with the criminal in/justice system, poor and young racialized adults, as well as neurotypical and neurodiverse children and adults.

Here is the Zoom-Link

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87074783699?pwd=TlFhNTBlY1FWWk1ZaGNOUEphaUlVQT09

Bis bald! See you there!
Herzliche Grüße 
Anke

Further information about Drama Hive you can find on ResearchGate:   https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364636989_Exploring_public_practice_drama_therapy_using_Drama_Hives

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Feel welcome to have a look on the documentation of our past research colloquia

Research circles

New: Research Circle “We do Research! – Doing research!”
In this new working group we develop specific and practice-based ideas for possible research projects in daily drama therapy practice.
Informed by arts-based approaches, this group is supervised by Sabine Koch and Anke Schäfer when required. – First online meeting planned in February 2024. Take part, join us!

Contact: Björn Kaltwasser, info@bjoern-kaltwasser.de

If you have further suggestions for research circles, contact us. A working group should consist of about five people and meet quarterly. The findings that emerge at the meetings can be documented and be discussed in a special annual research circle colloquium.

Possible research circle topics could be (e.g.):

  1. Funding for drama therapy / “Theatertherapie” research projects
  2. What can research by non-academics look like?
  3. What could research tandems look like? Academics in exchange with practitioners

Please submit further suggestions: schaefer@theatertherapie.org

Special research group on ritual research (Ingrid Lutz)

(further information will follow)

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