Event overview
CAL All For the Arts, Danny Braverman, Drama-in-Coaching: Developing New Practice, 10 May 2023, 5.30-7pm in-person at Goldsmiths
The fields of Positive Psychology and Educational Drama have rarely been systematically integrated. Positive Psychology has been a growing area of scientific research this century, grounded in the premiss that Psychology has narrowly focused on the negative and more attention needs to be paid to wellbeing and flourishing.
As such, it has had a major impact on coaching. Drama-in-Education encompasses a wide-range of practices based on the benefits of stepping into other people’s shoes and the learning that arises from performance-making. In this talk and interactive discussion workshop, Danny Braverman will posit that there are extensive benefits from integrating the two fields. He will focus particularly on how these practices can promote equality, diversity and inclusion and how group coaching is not just cost effective, but a key way to encourage relatedness.
Danny Braverman FRSA is Lecturer in Theatre at Goldsmiths. He is a theatre-maker, teacher, and coach, specialising in Educational Drama and Disability Rights. As a theatre-maker/teacher he has worked with Theatre Royal Stratford East, Graeae, the National Theatre, Theatre Centre, and Battersea Arts Centre among others. His solo show Wot? No Fish!! won the Brian Way Playwriting Award and featured in Lyn Gardner’s Top 10 shows 2014 (The Guardian).
His publications include his book Playing a Part: drama and citizenship (Trentham, 2002) and recent chapters on youth musicals (Routledge, 2022) and inclusive pedagogy for HE students (Bristol University Press, 2021). He is currently writing a new musical based on the life of World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer as practice-as-research exploring neurodiversity in form, content, and process. Danny was recently made a Fellow of CollectivED at the Carnegie School of Education in recognition of his contribution to the field of coaching in education.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 10 May 2023 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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