Joanne Elsworth Dramatherapy

26/06/2018

“What keeps you motivated in your work with the ? Being a team, feeling supported and connecting with each other@Thrive_WW . A great session supporting workers in Cox's Bazar.”

03/06/2018

I absolutely LOVE this. ❤️😍
Unbelievably simple .... and fantastically effective 💕

02/05/2018

Reflecting on the needs here for Humantarains in Bangldesh.

In August 2017, violence erupted in Rakhine State in Myanmar, targeting the Rohingya people, a stateless Muslim minority. Almost a million people fled to Bangladesh and are now living in temporary shelters around Cox’s Bazar. The initial emergency response of building, supporting and surpling has ...

01/05/2018

Resilience is an amazing film about how Adverse Childhood Experiences Play out over the life span. It relates to us all. It’s an independent film so if it’s being screened near you, go

ourscreen | Imagine. The cinema is yours

27/04/2018

19/04/2018

Shame was the topic of my dissertation during my masters. I wonder how much of it links with the Dyslexia stigma and early childhood experiences in class.....

"Ben Foss shares how to turn shame into hope, helping people feel more connected and authentic. Ben Foss is a prominent inventor, entrepreneur and activis...

31/03/2018

Recently attending a good friends baby shower and not having children was an interesting navigation of trying to find my group..... but as Miquela reflects on are they really as clear as we think?
Identity https://t.co/gN4heOjFsK via

I consider social identity theory in relation to being a parent and how we change how we perceive ourselves based on the different groups we begin to spend t...

29/03/2018

http://www.thrive-worldwide.org/index.php/blog/psychosocial-support-and-training-now-available-bangladesh

As humanitarian aid organisations prepare and brace for the rains in Bangladesh, we encourage organisations, in what is already a stressful time, to make time to prepare staff and to be ready to respond to stress, team conflict and vicarious trauma. Preparing your staff and putting in place support....

27/02/2018

These Blue Dinosaurs met a new friend last week! Teacher Joanne, a Drama Therapist, joined our dance/movement session with . Boy, can little movers MOVE!
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This particular creative therapeutic process effects changes in feelings, cognition, physical functioning and behavior. Dance uses the body for self-expression and it can be used to communicate what cannot be communicated through words.

11/12/2017

What is Dramatherapy you ask ....

Having heard about dramatherapy for the first time, a student journalist in Lincoln was keen to explore a practice that she felt a lot of people had misconceptions about. This 10-minute radio document

09/12/2017

Snapshot of my work with Syrian Refuguees in Greece.