PUPPET THERAPY BCN INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL PRESENTATION

Directed by: Andrea Markovits.

Assistant: Polo Fernández.

Guest: Cariad Astles

During 5 intensive days, in July 2024, in the centre of Barcelona we convene former students of our trainings and new participants interested in the therapeutic power of puppets, art therapy, mental health and animated forms.

In attention to the international scenarios of emergencies and learned hopelessness, this training presents and reviews the research and intervention model with adults of Muñecoterapia Chile in contexts of memory, trauma informed and transgenerational damage (Pos Memoria).

The purpose is to bring together our experiences on the contemporary field of Therapeutic Animated Forms and to discover a new look into the wide world of Puppet Therapy with a theoretical and practical basis.

This introductory training provides tools in animation of animated forms (puppets, objects and materials), elements of art therapy, explores the dramatic and plastic function of puppet theatre as resources to guide group processes from the creation and exploration of their potential for repair at the individual and group level, both for people with and without therapeutic experience.

The Model of Therapeutic Animated Forms: Memory & Trauma © consists of strategies organized from the creation to accompany trauma-informed repair processes, where the personal becomes collective achieving physicalization in matter and figure complex experiences that allow finding metaphors to address, re-signify and understand such traumatic experiences.

CONTENTS

– Introduction to therapy: from animism to contemporary puppetry.

– The hurt matter: use of animated forms in emergency contexts: natural disasters, forced displacements and wars.

– Portable study applied to the puppet therapist.

– Photography as an object of memory.

– The Model of Therapeutic Animated Forms: Memory & Trauma©.

– Animation of objects, materials and puppets.

– Studies of international projects using Puppetry applied to health, therapy and community.

– Workshop on construction of articulated paper puppet for use as a co-therapist.

– Theory applied to materiality exercises with a therapeutic approach.

– Individual and group creative explorations: Group identity (its pulse and movement); indications; animation and group analysis.

TO WHOM IT IS ADDRESSED

Therapists, art therapists, teachers, psychologists, social workers, drama therapists, puppeteers, play therapists, artists and anyone, with or without experience, interested in the field of puppetry applied to therapeutic processes.

LANGUAGE: Guided in English and Spanish

DATES: From Monday, July 8 to Friday, July 12, 2024.

HOURS:

Monday to Thursday from 10:00 to 17.30 hrs.

Friday from 10.00 to 14.00 hrs.

ADDRESS

ESPACIO La Sala, Ortigosa 14. Metro Plaza Urquinaona.

(Center of Barcelona, near the Gothic Quarter).

https://goo.gl/maps/YMESou1Joui7e1ua9

CONTACT: puppettherapybcn@gmail.com

* To request more information about prices and to apply, you must request the application form to: puppettherapybcn@gmail.com

* The course includes materials.

* A certificate of participation will be issued on the last day of the course.