drama therapy help?

purplekitty

hey everybody...

in in Carlow college, studing social care... im also doing my work experience in a youth centre at the moment...

looking for a good exercise to introduce Dramatherapy to some groups between 13-18yrs...
any ideas of exercises of web-sites i could look at to get some?

mucho obliged!!:o

JuliusCaesar

not dramatherapy but might be useful: http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/resources/roleplays/tutors/preparation.html
http://www.natcon.org/natcon/papers/natcon_papers_2005_e7.pdf

Might be best to get ideas from them? Is it to introduce dramatherapy or introduce them to each other? There are simple ones (depends how big the group is) where they pick the names of farmyard animals out of a hat (two slips with each animal) and then have to make the noise of that animal. In the ensuing cacophony, they have to find their 'other half'. Is this the kind of thing you're looking for? Ice-breakers? http://www.funattic.com/game_icebreaker.htm#anchor5

Scigaithris

Although used more in qualitative research, you might also want to look at the works of Goffman in Dramaturgy? You may gleen additional ideas for therapy from the research domain?