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Sesame Dramatherapy
Sesame dramatherapy is a particular approach of dramatherapy with the additional opportunity of using movement alongside drama for self-exploration. It can also be called Sesame drama and movement therapy. It is founded, like other creative arts therapies, on the healing potential of the arts within medical practice.
At the heart of the Sesame dramatherapy approach is a metaphor: just like the ancient story that uses the phrase 'Open Sesame' to open the cave door and reveal treasure, Sesame dramatherapy uses drama and movement as powerful resources to promote healing and change in people.
In a Sesame dramatherapy session we can work verbally in discussion and non-verbally through creative mediums such as story, character, body shapes and movement, sounds and voice. Personal material can also be explored through art materials or various objects. The creative medium offers a non-confrontational way of exploring, whilst containing, powerful emotions.
Discussion is part of the session too and it is used to consider, rather than interpret your symbolic inner material so that it can be seen and made less unfamiliar. Once an idea, a memory, a feeling or a thought is conscious, there is more choice about what can be done with it. Reactions and behaviour can gradually be understood and so changed.
The session lasts for one hour and I work in the knowledge that with creative expression there is no right or wrong. My practice is client-led and you can choose from a range of creative tools. I listen to the metaphors that arise and I help to amplify and reflect these back, which enables you to explore your difficulty, trauma or pain through the metaphor that has surfaced.
The main theories that are incorporated in the approach are: the theories of Carl Jung's psychology of the unconscious, Rudolph Laban's Art of Movement, Peter Slade's work in children's play, Marian Lindkvist's non-verbal language of Movement-with-touch, Winnicott and Erikson's studies of human development and Carl Rodger's focus on therapeutic relationship. The core principle of the work is to stay with the inner symbol until its wisdom can be integrated and applied to making new healthy life choices.
For more information on Sesame dramatherapy go to www.sesame-institute.org