ADCR

Aims

1. To develop DEEP’s role as a group representing dramatherapy and dramatherapists across Europe and to continue to pursue the potential of developing a European association of dramatherapists.
2. To promote the growth of dramatherapy practice in European countries outside the UK.
3. To foster/nurture exchange, mutual respect and understanding across theoretical, methodological and conceptual differences.
4. To develop DEEP’s links with ECArTE in order to broaden its awareness of the dramatherapy trainings and requirements for professional registration and practice within Europe and in order to explore the possibilities of developing those areas.
5. To have a face to face meeting as a Working Party once a year.

Objectives

1. To continue to develop a dialogue with existing European dramatherapy associations. In countries where the associations do not exist as yet, DEEP aims to develop a dialogue with related therapeutic associations that use healing aspects of drama and theatre as part of the therapeutic process.
2. To regularly update the Chair and Executive Committee from Badth of DEEP’s work via reports and The Prompt.
3. To organize a meeting with other European dramatherapy practitioners. To identify a selected European country outside the UK to host the next meeting, on a specific chosen theme (clinical, educational…).To identify and clarify CPD opportunities as regards such meetings.
4. To consolidate a sense of belonging and respond to the need to establish a ‘secure base’ for dramatherapists who inhabit a cross cultural identity both professionally and personally and from which to promote dramatherapy gatherings and exchange at a European level.
5. To develop the facilitation of peer supervision between UK trained dramatherapists working in Europe outside the UK and with non UK trained dramatherapist colleagues.
6. To increase DEEP’s awareness of how culture, culturally specific theatre and the understanding of the word ‘drama’ shape dramatherapy approaches and broaden our dramatherapy orientations from a European perspective. To explore these issues in small gatherings/meetings in European countries outside the UK to facilitate exchange.
7. To write examples of good practice in the Prompt as well as in related publications.
8. To hold dramatherapy seminar events or/and workshops for Health or/and Education professionals in European countries.
9. To explore the idea of having a DEEP website in order to create a European exchange network outside the UK.