{"id":5604,"date":"2026-02-14T19:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theatertherapie.org\/?page_id=5604"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:37:54","slug":"facilitators-lecturers-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.theatertherapie.org\/en\/intern-summer-conference\/facilitators-lecturers-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilitators & Lecturers 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer Conference 2026<\/p>\n

Facilitators & Lecturers<\/h1>\n

Henk G\u00f6bel<\/strong>
\nHe trained in acting, dance, and singing at the Berlin School of Performing Arts and is a certified theatre therapist (DGfT) and trauma pedagogue (DeGPT).
\nHe works nationally and internationally in the field of child protection and the prevention and intervention of (sexualized) violence, and has taught at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin on the subject of \u201cTheatre in Social Fields.\u201d<\/em>
\nAlongside numerous theatre projects with people of all ages, he has been performing playback theatre for over 15 years. He was a co-founder of the Berlin-based playback theatre group \u201cDie Spiegelneuronen\u201d<\/em> and has led workshops in Germany, Lebanon, and at international playback theatre gatherings. In addition to his experience as an actor and conductor in playback theatre, he explores new worlds as a musician with the T\u00fcbingen playback theatre group.<\/p>\n

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Ingrid Lutz
\n<\/strong>Trainer and teaching supervisor of the 4-year drama therapy training courses at the Institut fu\u0308r Theatertherapie in cooperation with the Catholic University of Applied Social Sciences in Berlin, former professor of dramatherapy at the HfWU Nu\u0308rtingen. Additional training in family reconstruction, body-oriented therapy, and transpersonal therapy. Extensive teaching experience at universities and conferences both domestically and internationally (Peru, Israel, USA, Canada \u2026) and field research on rituals and healing methods of other cultures. www.theatertherapie.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Amani Mussa<\/strong>
\nis a drama therapist, supervisor, and lecturer specializing in drama- and arts-based therapy within Arab society in Israel. Her work focuses on supporting children who have been exposed to violence. She serves as Chair of the Drama Therapy Division and is a founding member of the Arab Society Committee at YAHAT.
\nHer work takes place primarily within Arab educational frameworks, especially in special education. She coordinates arts-based therapy programs, supervises therapists, and lectures at Tel Hai Academic College, emphasizing the integration of Western psychological approaches with Arab cultural values to create sensitive and effective therapeutic responses.
\nShe leads professional workshops that strengthen communication, support therapists working with children, and address violence in educational settings. As a Playback Theatre facilitator and performer, she uses theatre to foster social dialogue and co-founded the bilingual ensemble Here and Now Theatre, which brings together Arab and Jewish women through creativity and shared storytelling.<\/p>\n

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Susana Pendzik, MA, PhD, RDT
\n<\/strong>Associate Professor and Former Head of the Drama Therapy Graduate Program at Tel Hai College (Israel), also lectures at the Theatre Studies Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Swiss Dramatherapy Institute, the Dramatherapy Diploma at the University of Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina), as well as in other institutions of higher education worldwide. Theatre director and researcher, Susana is a prolific writer, authoring numerous articles and book chapters, a book on\u00a0Action Techniques for Group Work with Battered women(1999) [Spanish and German]; \u00a0co-edited\u00a0Assessment in drama therapy\u00a0(2012), and\u00a0The self in performance:\u00a0Autobiographical, self-revelatory, and autoethnographic forms of therapeutic theatre\u00a0(2016), and\u00a0co-authored\u00a0Dramaterapia: Un enfoque creativo para el trabajo terap\u00e9utico\u00a0(2018) [Spanish]. She is currently coeditor of the\u00a0Dramatherapy Journal\u00a0(the journal of the British Association of Dramatherapists \u00a0https:\/\/www.intellectbooks.com\/dramatherapy<\/a>). She is a supervisor and has a private practice.<\/p>\n

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Salvo Pitruzzella
\n<\/strong>was born and lives in Palermo. He is one of the pioneers of dramatherapy in Italy. Starting from his previous experiences as actor, playwright, puppeteer, applied theatre trainer and psychodramatist, he developed his own methods and has been working as dramatherapist in various fields, especially in adolescent and adult mental health. He has directed the Dramatherapy training in Italy for 25 years and has been tenured Professor at the Fine Art Academy of Palermo. One of the founders of EFD (European Federation of Dramatherapy) in 2013, he has been a member of its Executive Board since then. In 2023, after stepping down from the Board, he was appointed Member of Honour of the Federation. He served as Global Representative at ECArTE (European Consortium for Arts Therapies Education) and collaborated with the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London as External Examiner. He has written and edited numerous essays and manuals on dramatherapy and creativity education and contributed to several international volumes. Currently, he is the co-editor, with Susana Pendzik of the Dramatherapy Journal, the scientific journal of BADTh (British Association of Dramatherapists). He is also Lecturer of Dramatherapy in the Master course in Arts Therapies at Milan University.<\/p>\n

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Bettina Stoltenhoff-Erdmann
\n<\/strong>Drama\/Theatre Therapist, licensed practitioner for psychotherapy, with 25 years of clinical dramatherapy experience in psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine, working with adults and adolescents in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
\nTrained in psychodrama, with further qualifications in trauma counselling, DBT and systemic family therapy. Long-standing trainer and teaching supervisor in the training programmes of the Institute for Theatre Therapy (ITT), Head of Professional Training Programmes at ITT, and co-editor of the two dramatherapy handbooks \u201cTheatre Therapy\u201d and \u201cLearning to Live Through Play\u201d.
\nGerman representative of the DGfT and member of the EFD (European Federation of Dramatherapy) steering group.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Anna Seymour PhD, PFHEA
\n<\/strong>HCPC registered Dramatherapist is Emeritus Professor of Dramatherapy at the University of Roehampton, London and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is Visiting Professor, Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon, Visiting Professor, Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, and an honorary member of the Societa Professionale di Dramaterapia (Italy) She is an international trainer and consultant across the world.\u00a0 Anna has worked as a Dramatherapist and clinical supervisor in the Uk National Health Service, voluntary sector and private practice.
\nShe has a background in professional theatre with and for working class communities and was associated with more than 30 shows, devising, directing and performing work. She has trained in two physical theatre forms : Commedia dell\u2019Arte in France (with John Rudlin) Italy (with Antonio Fava) and Biomechanics (with Gennadi Bogdanov, Moscow). As an academic she has taught theatre praxis and given lecture series in the Drama departments of several leading UK universities including the Universities of Manchester and Birmingham. Her research interests bring together Marxist ideas, therapy and theatre in the contemporary setting of political activism.
\nFormer Editor of the British Association of Dramatherapists peer reviewed journal, Dramatherapy, she is Senior Series Editor, Dramatherapy: Approaches, relationships, critical ideas – Book Series – Routledge & CRC Press<\/p>\n

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Aylien Yanik, MA<\/strong><\/p>\n

is a dramatherapist, supervisor, university lecturer, and doctoral candidate of Armenian descent. She has 23 years of clinical experience in the treatment of depression, addiction, and complex trauma-related disorders, and teaches dramatherapy at university level.
\nHer therapeutic approach integrates dramatherapy with trauma-informed and neurobiological concepts\u2014particularly Polyvagal Theory\u2014as well as compassion-focused and embodiment-oriented methods. As part of her master\u2019s studies, she developed the programme \u201cPower of Encouragement\u201d, which combines clinical practice, theoretical grounding, and empirical research. In 2023, she published on this work in the Journal of Arts Therapies.
\nWithin a tandem professorship model for dramatherapy, she brings together clinical practice, supervision, university teaching, and research. In her doctoral research, she investigates the effectiveness of the \u201cPower of Encouragement\u201d programme, with a focus on embodied safety and the scientific advancement of dramatherapeutic practice in the context of trauma and regulation.
\nAs the child of Armenian emigrants, Aylien Yanik weaves personal, artistic, and scholarly perspectives into her work. Through her photographic exhibition \u201cArmenia: Beauty of My Roots\u201d, she creates a space for remembrance, dialogue, and transgenerational understanding.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":55,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"side-navigation.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5604","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatertherapie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatertherapie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatertherapie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatertherapie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatertherapie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatertherapie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5752,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatertherapie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5604\/revisions\/5752"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatertherapie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatertherapie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}