Workshop 1
Introductory course – an insight into directing bibliodrama
For those who are curious about investigating and reflecting on the leadership role in bibliodrama. It’s about getting ideas to guide the bibliodrama process.
We take the following steps in each phase of the workshop:
- Experience– First you will experience a sequence of bibliodrama
- Understanding and reflecting– We try to understand what you have experienced and reflect on it with the help of theoretical elements.
- Consequences – Each individual and we together draw conclusions for our own leadership behaviour.
Workshop leaders:
Anna Gradin, from Sweden. Pedagog and qualified Bibliodrama leader
Gert Stührmann, from Germany. Theologian and qualified Bibliodrama leader
Anna and Gert got to know each other at EBW 2012. It is good when an educator and a theologian work together. Anna with experience of various forms of bibliodrama. Gert with experience of bibliodrama management training and providing theoretical background. Both Anna and Gert, are investigatory, and they like to curiously try out and try to understand, which they want to practice in their leadership.
In a humorous way, they have already experimented as a leader team during the festive evening at EBW 2018 in Austria.
Workshop 2
We get the opportunity to take a pause.
The text we will step into, play and explore, is about what we face in everyday life, everyday relationships, loneliness, when we feel empty and tired of all the demands, and maybe feel that our egocentric pursuit is meaningless, that our self absorption comes out? Then the question is, is God with us in the struggle or not?
Bibliodrama means reading the Bible with both body and soul, with both emotions and intellect.
Through warm-up, text reading, diverse creative work, sharing and reflections, you get to embody the text in many ways. We will be both indoors and in the middle of the forest. And among other things, with the cathedral of nature, we will find our way back to what feels important and true.
“Inside you one vault after another opens endlessly. Tomas Tranströmmer
It is also for those who may never have tried bibliodrama before and for those who are curious about what bibliodrama is. Then this workshop will give you a great foundation to start with. We turn the perspectives around and the workshop will be led mainly in Swedish but
can be translated into English.
Workshop leaders:
Susanne Lindström, from Sweden. Qualified bibliodrama leader and church educator.
Ann-Marie Johansson from Sweden. Pastor in Uniting church, bibliodrama leader.
Their common joy is to create meeting places and opportunities for dialogue between
people.
Workshop 3
Interreligious/intercultural bibliodrama
Like a bridge: About blessing and pain
Pain and blessing may at first glance seem to be opposites. Suffering physical or mental harm can sometimes be interpreted as bad luck, punishment or curse. And in a good and blessed life there should be no pain.
The participants in this bibliodrama will encounter texts from different religious traditions,
where physical and mental pain is described. Despite the discomfort and suffering it causes, to be hurt can sometimes and in the long run lead to something new and good. According to
Buddhist philosophy, the experience of one’s own pain can create compassion for the pain of others and thereby alleviate suffering in the world. According to Muslim faith tradition, the experience of one’s own vulnerability can lead to practicing patience and increasing closeness to God’s protective power. According to a Jewish and Christian biblical story, Jacob is injured by a divine person. Despite his painful body, Jakob gathers all his strength and forces his combatant to bless him – something he needs to dare to face his dark past.
Workshop leaders:
Corinna Friedl, Malmö. Hospital chaplain, Doctor of Theology, Gestalt-psychotherapist, bibliodrama leader.
Eva Andersson, Lund. Pedagogue, teacher at Swedish Church’s educational institute, symbolpedagogue, bibliodrama leader (Bibliodrama Society Stockholm)
Esma Seyda Sözcu, Malmö. Student at Lund´s University, contact interpreter Turkish – Swedish
Workshop 4
Encounter the power of God and our own courage to cross a border, a bridge, in a risky situation.
In the text Jakob is alone at the ford of Jabbok on the way to meet his brother. We have all been in difficult situations of fear and anxiety. Often it’s just at these moments we can find our inner strength and also be blessed by God to continue.
In our workshop we will use two complementary approaches. One way is the inner scene, like a meditation or a daydream, combined with drawings. (Hanscarl Leuner: Katathymes Bilderleben, Symboldrama) The other is acting at an outer scene (Bibliodrama) combined with sessions of body awareness and body expression. These two methods will be used in an intertwined way during the days.
Workshop leaders:
Mariann Hagbarth, Stockholm, Psychologist, psychotherapist and supervisor who
introduced Symboldrama to Sweden 1976.
Gerhard Marcel Martin, Marburg, Prof.em. in theology, minister and one of the
founders of Bibliodrama.
Workshop 5
Can we find ways to overcome obstacles in our relationship with God?
This workshop will be centered around the text in Genesis 32 (22-31).
It is about wrestling with materials, finding and using our core strength and collaborating with others when we explore our personal relationship with God. We will give form to the text using embodiment and felted imagery and ascertain if, or how Jacob’s story connects with the stories of the landscape around us. Possible ways of working may be felting with found natural materials, solo walks in nature to find our ways of overcoming obstacles. The serenity prayer of St Francis of Assisi may be one companion for us on this journey.
Workshop leaders:
Lotta Dahmberg from Solna, Sweden. Bibliodrama leader and drama pedagogue.
Ditty Dokter from Netherlands. Dramatherapist and group psychotherapist.
Lotta is a felter, Ditty is a weaver. Their joint interest in textile arts is combined with an interest in embodiment through play and improvisation.
They facilitated previous European Bibliodrama workshops in Stockholm, London
(2011), Helsinki and Belgium (2016).