Explore. Create. Grow

The Victoria Theatre’s creative wellbeing programme.

The Victoria Theatre is the only theatre in England that can provide a range of professional creative, play and drama based psychotherapy services for either adults or young people under a programme called: Space for Me.

Space for Me supports the wellbeing of adults or children and young people by offering sessions of ‘Dramatherapy’ or ‘Developmental Transformations’.

Dramatherapy

Space for Me is delivered by professionally qualified and registered dramatherapists and aims to improve emotional health and wellbeing, promote personal growth, develop confidence and resilience and explore challenging life experiences. It does this using a wide range of creative and often playful ideas such as story, metaphor and image work.

Dramatherapy can be used to support people presenting with a wide range of issues including, for example, anxiety, depression, self-harm, abuse and neglect, domestic violence, attachment trauma, eating disorders, psychosis and schizophrenia, separation and grief and bereavement. Though working with serious and complex issues, Space for Me Dramatherapy sessions are often playful and highly creative.

Dramatherapy is delivered through one-to-one or group therapy sessions, it is completely different to doing drama at school - and no previous experience of drama or theatre is needed to take part.

Developmental Transformations (DvT)

Developmental Transformations (DvT) is a form of highly playful, dramatic and embodied drama psychotherapy that can be used therapeutically and to support individual, group or team growth and development.

The practice of DvT can develop our capacity to be spontaneous, playful and more in the moment by helping identify and transform rigid and restrictive patterns of behaviour or ways of being.

Within a professionally facilitated ‘Playspace’ DvT uses the principles of Embodiment, Encounter and Transformation with the aim of having fun, whilst helping people better manage instability and change in their lives.

For information or a chat about Dramatherapy or Developmental Transformations please contact: The Victoria Theatre and ask about Space for Me or email: S4M@calderdale.gov.uk