DRAMATHERAPY GROUP FOR ADULTS

On December 7, 2019 starts at EPINIO by Elena Boukouvala, a closed drama therapy team, with the goals of personal search, emotional development, but also the acquaintance with the method of Drama and Movement Therapy. The team will be informed each time by the needs and interests of its participants. It will take place on Saturday 17.30 - 19.00 twice a month and the first cycle will be completed in 13 meetings. The first two meetings of the group will be open and will accept new members. Then the group will be closed. Through role playing, but also the promotion of different forms and ways of movement, dramatization of stories and musical expression, participants will be given the opportunity to experiment with alternative ways of behaving and dealing with life situations. In a non-confrontational psychotherapeutic context, based on the knowledge that difficulties can be revealed through metaphorical concepts, team members will have the opportunity to relive their personal experiences and experiment in search of new solutions and possibilities. Through the security provided by the use of the arts, they will be able to express all kinds of feelings and thoughts, in order to develop their self-confidence, to get to know themselves in depth but also to facilitate their communication with other people. This group will also be an opportunity to get acquainted with the method of Drama and Movement Therapy, for anyone interested in attending the postgraduate Drama Therapy training program. The dates of the team are: 7/12, 21/12, 11/1, 25/1, 8/2, 22/2, 7/3, 21/3, 4/4, 25/4, 9/5 , 23/5, 13/6 and time 17:30 - 19:00. The cost of each session is 25E (20E for students). A reservation is required and will be preceded by an individual interview with the interested parties. No previous experience in the method of drama therapy is required. For more information and registration you can contact the therapist Elena Boukouvala at 694 7815524 and at elenaboukouvala@gmail.com and the Epineio 2314035212. Elena Boukouvala is a Psychologist (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), University of Drama Therapist (London) Children and Youth (MA University of Nottingham) and is a member of the teaching staff of the East Side Institute. She has been working since 2004 as a therapist in primary and secondary schools, hospitals, refugee camps in other communities as well as privately, having specialized in the social integration of children and young people. She has been trained in Greece and England and has worked with children, young people and families in Greece, England, Romania, Germany, Denmark, Serbia, Hungary, Algeria and Beirut. She has worked with children, adolescents and young people with behavioral and expression difficulties, with special needs, children who are going through a difficult period of change in their lives, such as the mourning or divorce of their parents, and children with a variety of other needs. She is a teacher of Laban and Movement With Touch courses, as well as coordinator of the therapeutic groups in the Postgraduate Educational Program of Drama Therapy in the Port. She is also a member of the British Association of Drama Therapists and the Hellenic Association of Psychologists. elenaboukouvala@gmail.com και με το Επίνειο 2314035212. Η Έλενα Μπουκουβάλα είναι Ψυχολόγος (Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης), Δραματοθεραπεύτρια (ΜΑ Sesame University of London), Σύμβουλος Παιδιών και Νέων (ΜΑ University of Nottingham) και είναι μέλος του εκπαιδευτικού προσωπικού του East Side Institute. Δουλεύει από το 2004 ως θεραπεύτρια σε δημοτικά και γυμνάσια σχολεία, νοσοκομεία, προσφυγικούς καταυλισμούς σε άλλες κοινότητες καθώς και ιδιωτικά, έχοντας εξειδικευτεί στην κοινωνική ένταξη παιδιών και νέων. Έχει εκπαιδευτεί στην Ελλάδα και στην Αγγλία και έχει εργαστεί με παιδιά, νέους και οικογένειες στην Ελλάδα, Αγγλία, Ρουμανία, Γερμανία, Δανία, Σερβία, Ουγγαρία, Αλγερία και στην Βηρυτό. Έχει δουλέψει με παιδιά, εφήβους και νέους με δυσκολίες συμπεριφοράς και έκφρασης, με ειδικές ανάγκες, παιδιά που διανύουν κάποια δύσκολη περίοδο αλλαγής στην ζωή τους, όπως το πένθος ή το διαζύγιο των γονέων και παιδιά με άλλες ποικίλες ανάγκες. Είναι διδάσκουσα των μαθημάτων Laban και Movement With Touch, καθώς και συντονίστρια των θεραπευτικών ομάδων στο Μεταπτυχιακό Εκπαιδευτικό Πρόγραμμα Δραματοθεραπείας στο Επίνειο. Είναι επίσης μέλος του Βρετανικού Συλλόγου Δραματοθεραπευτών και του Ελληνικού Συλλόγου Ψυχολόγων.