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manage trauma
The path ? save the world
How ? doing theater
With whom ? with everyone
For who ? for those*who don't go there
The theater and reconciliation workshops, as well as the shows, are led by members of the local population who have experienced trauma. Theater thus becomes a collective means of managing trauma.
T&R has produced several shows and runs various workshops with vulnerable people, including rape victims, prisoners, displaced people, torture victims and child soldiers.
We work for the individual reconstruction of people who are victims of trauma by offering listening, respect and mutual support. Theater allows us to imagine and dream together a new way of perceiving reality. It is about playing, shifting, converting and symbolizing, thus transforming pain into theatrical expression.
Trauma of child soldiers and young girls victims of sexual violence
Theater & Reconciliation creates a secure space where trauma can be expressed and where healing is encouraged.
A documentary is available here
Enlistment of child soldiers
Theater & Reconciliation allows us to reenact the scenes of enlistment of which the children were victims, bringing into play their lived experiences to promote appeasement.
Prisoner trauma
Theater & Reconciliation creates a secure space where prisoners can express their conditions of confinement.
The therapeutic effect of T&R's methodology is indisputable, despite the fact that T&R does not contemplate or apply art therapy. A research action carried out in 2019 demonstrates how the T&R methodology leads directly to an increase in social cohesion between people from diverse backgrounds, allowing vulnerable people to make use of their own potential towards a concrete change in their situation (1).
Expressing emotions in a safe context, reconstructing one's story from the here and now, moving the body, making use of voice, music, form and rhythm, are all elements that allow you to regain confidence, l self-esteem, autonomy and to re-establish relationships, elements which have a positive influence on mental health (3) and which can be obtained by relatively simple techniques without the interference of medical specialists or therapists.
1 Inspiring life in frozen communities. pdf . (2020) Bibiane van Mierlo