Summer 2008
The
first International Narradrama Conference will take place in
Avigliana, Italy, July 18, 19 and 20th, 2008. It is
sponsored by ArtQuarium-Residenza Multidisciplinare Stabilimento
Teatrale Folengo, Master di Teatro Sociale e di Comunita, Universita
di Torino, and the Laura Lucchini Organization. The cost of the
Conference is 250 Euros.
There are five presenters, three American and two Italian. Pam Dunne, Ph.D, RDT. BCT, will offer “The Magic of Narradrama in Developing Strengths with Children and Adolescents,” and “Developing Therapeutic Stories and Creative Problem-Solving Based on Narrative Principles for Education.” Daniel Wiener, Ph.D, RDT, BCT, will offer “Staging Parallel and Intersecting Narratives in Problem-Solving” and “Rehearsals for Growth: Experiencing Other Selves Through Theater Improvisation.” Pam Paulson, an MFT and Narradrama Specialist, will present “Using Reflecting Teams, Consultants and Digital Storytelling to Discover Untapped Potentials and Access Communities of Support (both inner and outer)” and “Narradrama and Motivational Interviewing: A Strength-Based Approach to Dealing with Resistance and Ambivalence.” Gerardo Guccini will speak about drama narrative in Italy, and Alessandra Ghiglione, Pedigogic Director of Master di Teatro Sociale e di Comunità, will talk about drama, narrative and health improvement.
Dr. Dunne’s book: The Narrative Therapist and the Arts: Second Edition has been translated into Italian and will be available at the Conference. For more information about the Conference and housing for the conference email: laurabalbo2@libero.it, or artquarium@yahoo.it.
Following the International Narradrama Conference, participants from Italy and the US will be able to attend an intensive six-day workshop, “Exploring Your Story in a Digital Age: Combining Mixed Media, Photography and Film in Narradrama (July 25 through July 31, 2008). This workshop will be held in Northwest Italy in the history rich small town of Piossasco in a private retreat on the grounds of a beautiful estate. For more information on this event contact Dr. Dunne at: pamdunnedtila@mac.com
Friday
July 18-
7 PM- Opening Ceremony and
Ritual – Pam Dunne, Ph.D, RDT/BCT, Daniel Wiener, Ph.D, RDT/BCT
and Pam Paulson, MFT
Saturday
July 19-
9:30 to
10:15- Coffee and rolls
10:15 AM
to 12:30 PM- (all participants) – Lecture/Powerpoint
presentation, Introduction to Narradrama, followed by hands on
experience with Narradrama. Pam Dunne, Ph.D, RDT/BCT
12:45 to
1:45- (all participants) Speech- Alessandra Ghiglione, Pedagogic
Director of Master di Sociale e di Comunita)
Drama, Narrative and Health Improvement
1:45 to
2:45: Lunch
2:45 to
3:45- Panel Narradrama in Education, Counseling and Community
Work-
Pam Dunne
Ph.D, RDT/BCT- Narradrama
in Education and Counseling
Daniel J.
Wiener, Ph.D, RDT/BCT – Narradrama with Families
Pam
Paulson, MFT- Narradrama in Community
Simultaneous
Workshops 4:00 PM to
7:00 PM
Pam Dunne
Ph.D, RDT/BCT – The Magic of Narradrama in Developing Strengths
with Children and Adolescents
Pam
Paulson, MFT- Using Reflective Teams, Consultants and Digital
Story Telling to discover untapped potentials and access communities
of support (both inner and outer)
Daniel J.
Wiener, Ph.D, RDT/BCT- Staging Parallel and Intersecting Narratives
in Problem Solving
7:00 PM
to 7:30 PM- Conversation
Time
Sunday
July 20
8 AM to 9
AM- Coffee and Rolls
9:00 to
10:00 AM- (all participants) Gerardo Guccini will speak on Drama and
Narrative in Italy
10:15 to
12:15 PM (all participants)- Exploring Narradrama ( DVD) and other
short DVD’s from other Presenters and discussion following. Pam Dunne, Ph.D, RDT/BCT, Daniel J. Wiener, PhD,
RDT/BCT and Pam Paulson, MFT
12:30
PM to 1:30 PM -Simultaneous Workshops
(Continued in afternoon after Lunch)
Pam
Dunne, Ph.D, RDT/BCT- Developing Therapeutic Stories and Creative
Problem Solving based on Narrative Principles for Education
Daniel J.
Wiener, Ph.D, RDT/BCT- Rehearsals for Growth: Experiencing other
Selves Through Theater Improvisation
Pam
Paulson, MFT—Narradrama and Motivational Interviewing: A
Strength based approach in Dealing with Resistance and Ambivalence
1:30 PM
to 2:30 PM- Lunch
2:30
PM to 6 PM- Simultaneous Workshops
Continued
6:15 to
7:15- Closing Ceremony
Description
of Workshops:
Introduction
to Narradrama--Pam
Dunne, Ph.d. RDT/BCT
This is a
visual and participational introduction to the fundamentals of
Narradrama, examining how Narradrama can be applied in different
fields: education, social work, and counseling. Narradrama integrates
drama therapy with narrative therapy and creative arts therapy.
Participants will explore action techniques for implementing
Narrative concepts like re-authoring conversations, unique
outcomes, landscapes of action, restorying and more. Participants
will work with art, and other creative materials.
The
Magic of Narradrama in Developing Strengths with Children and
Adolescents--Pam Dunne, Ph.d, RDT/BCT
Through
creative exercises involving drama,
art, photography, masks, and puppets, participants will discover ways
to invite adolescents/children to discover their strengths and
abilities opening up a new landscape of action and identity. Warm-ups
which invite personal agency and expansion of preferred roles will be
followed by opportunities to experience
externalization techniques found to be especially effective
with young people. The workshop will end with creative restorative
rituals designed to celebrate the strengths of the participants.
Developing Therapeutic Stories and Creative Problem Solving Ba
sed on Narrative Principles for Education--Pam
Dunne, Ph,d, RDT/BCT
Problems
can be understood and addressed through therapeutic story telling and
creative action oriented, narrative approaches to problem solving
utilizing Narradrama and the arts.
The knots in a typical problem-saturated story can be loosened
and deconstructed to a preferred alternative story, which can be
reconstructed, developed, and presented through a variety of
techniques. Finally, mapping the effects of following the path of the
alternative story can be compared to the effects of following the
path of the original problem-saturated story.
In addition, participants will collaborate in developing
therapeutic stories, which often loosen the grip of the problem
opening space for new possibilities.
Rehearsals
for Growth: Experiencing Other Selves Through Theater
Improvisation-Daniel J. Wiener, Ph.D,
RDT/BCT
Our
personal identities are relational, formed and influenced through
interaction with others . We make ourselves and each other up as we
go along. Dramatic Improvisation, or
“improv,” is a powerful tool that allows us to explore who
else we might be and to experience co-creating alternate narratives
radically at variance with our dominant stories.
In this workshop, participants will experience a variety of
interactive theatrical games, which involve co-creating new realities
with others in a safe, playful manner. The presenter has developed
and presented extensively on this approach, “Rehearsal for
Growth,” over the past 23 years.
Reflecting
Teams, Experience Consultants, Participant Consultants and Digital
Storytellers--Pam Paulson, MFT
Narrative
concepts encourage and support widening the group of people who
interact with the participant. In this workshop, attendees will be
introduced to the concept of the “reflecting team,” and
will be able to both observe and practice being on a reflecting team.
The use of reflecting teams in educational and therapeutic settings
will be discussed. In addition, participants will explore the roles
of the “Experience Consultant” and “Participant
Consultant“ as a way of developing one's own committee of
support. Digital Storytelling will be presented as a way of
celebrating successes and passing on wisdom through video,
photography, music and voice.
Narradrama
and Motivational Interviewing: A Strength Based Approach in Dealing
with Resistance and Ambivalence--Pam
Paulson, MFT
Explore
ways of using the psychodramatic interview and other Narradrama
action techniques to open space for inviting people to move from
resistance and ambivalence to openness and appreciation of
themselves. Motivational Interviewing offers a collaborative approach
to problem solving that enhances participant engagement. Participants
will discover alternative stories, which open possibilities for
empowerment. Narradrama therapy techniques will be used to creatively
explore the five stages of motivation.
Staging
Parallel and Intersecting Narratives in Problem Solving--Daniel J. Wiener, Ph.D,
RDT/BCT
Many
conflicts begin as power struggles about which person’s dominant
narrative is true. To help resolve such a conflict, both versions of
the same core conflict are staged, and each of the persons in the
conflict takes the successive roles of author, director and actor.
Both conflicting stories are presented. Post-enactment processing
becomes an opportunity for the two people in conflict to engage in
deconstruction and reconstruction as part of a collaborative effort
to restory the conflict.