Conference Presentations

‘Who is I? Who is You? A theatrical exploration of We’ [Online workshop]. 5th Conference of the European Federation of Dramatherapy. Prague, Czech Republic. May 2021

‘The Forgotten Joy of Play and Playfulness’ [PechaKucha presentation]. The Place Theatre. Bedford. November 2019

‘Identification, Catharsis and Aesthetic Distance in the Performance of Lived Experience’ [Conference paper]. 15th International Arts Therapies Conference, ECArTE. Alcalá de Henares, Spain. September 2019

‘Co-Creation of Meaning in Autobiographical Performance in Dramatherapy’ [Poster presentation]. Research Conference. Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford. July 2018

”Last Tapes’: Performance as Reflective Practice in Dramatherapy Research’ [Reflective performance]. Symposium on Practice as Research in the Performing Arts. University of Bedfordshire, Bedford. June 2018

‘What Role for Community Theatre in Our Local Community?’ [Long Table]. The Place Theatre. Bedford. May 2018

‘An Arts-Based and Relational Phenomenological Research Investigating the Production of Meaning in Autobiographical Performance in Dramatherapy’ [Conference paper]. 14th International Arts Therapies Conference, ECArTE. Krakow, Poland. September 2017

‘Between the Stage and the World Stage: Being a Dramatherapist in Times of Darkness’ [Workshop]. 3rd Conference of the European Federation of Dramatherapy. Ghent, Belgium. April 2017

‘Autobiographical Dialogue in Performance’ [Conference paper]. Winter Conference of the British Sociological Association Auto/Biography Study Group. London. December 2016

‘Autobiographical Theatre Research’ [Lecture]. Dramatherapy Department, Anglia Ruskin University. Cambridge. April 2016

‘Six Characters in Search of an Audience: the Role and Function of the Audience in Dramatherapy’ [Workshop]. 13th European Arts Therapies Conference, ECArTE. Palermo, Sicily. September 2015

‘Intersubjectivity and Metaxis in Performance in Dramatherapy’ [Workshop]. British Association of Dramatherapists Annual Conference. Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester. September 2015

‘Seeing Oneself Through the Eye of the Other: the Role of the Witness in the Production of Meaning in Autobiographical Performance’ [Conference paper]. British Association of Dramatherapists Annual Conference. University of Surrey. September 2014

‘A Relational Approach to Trauma, Mourning, Memory and Recognition through ‘Death ans the Maiden’ by Ariel Dorfman’ [Conference paper]. Winter symposium Psychoanalysis and Politics. Stockholm, Sweden. 2012

‘Autobiographical Performance and Intertextuality’ [Workshop]. British Association of Dramatherapists Annual Conference. University of Hull, Scarborough. September 2012

‘Public Creative Space: Interplay between Therapy, Politics and Theatre’ [Conference paper]. International summer symposium Psychoanalysis and Politics. Nordic Summer University, Falsterbo, Sweden. 2011

‘The Sense of Belonging for the Dramatherapist within a European Framework’ [Workshop]. Dramatherapy in Europe Exchange Project (DEEP) and Società Professionale Italiana Drammaterapia (SPID). Milan, Italy. 2009

‘The Political Body of the Dramatherapist and the Client’ [Workshop]. British Association of Dramatherapists Annual Conference. University of York. September 2007