This training is tailored for practitioners using theatre/art as a mediation technique within their work with communities, as well as theatre students who would like to acquire the tools and techniques of psychosocial mediation. 

The first module of this training invites participants to an embodied exploration, to re-sensitize themselves and connect with personal thoughts and desires, through organic movement, breathing, relaxation and theatre exercises with the aim of releasing excessive tension and stress.

This method is the brainchild of two different schools: experimental theatre and clinical psychology. It merely uses theatre techniques as tools that enable personal investigation, and as means of intervention within a therapeutic approach with a focus on:

The framework of the approach: its spatio-temporal specificity and symbolic function, as well as its modalities, internal regulations, and logic of expression; 

The skills of the mediator: their mastery of theatre language and tools and ability to transmit them; their neutrality and lack of judgment; the quality of their presence and personal availability; their capacity to listen; their ability to intervene using theatrical tools only; their ability to set the adequate empathetic distance between participants and themselves.