Dramatic techniques

Gestalt therapy
O Gestalt therapy focuses on process (what is
actually happening) over content (what is
being talked about).
O The emphasis is on what is being done,
thought, and felt at the present moment (the
phenomenality of both client and therapist),
rather than on what was, might be, could be,
or should have been.
 Gestalt therapy
O The objective of Gestalt therapy is to enable
the client to become more fully and
creatively alive and to become free from the
blocks and unfinished business that may
diminish satisfaction, fulfillment, and
growth, and to experiment with new ways of
being.
 The empty chair
O Empty chair technique or chairwork is typically
used in Gestalt therapy when a client might have
deep rooted emotional problems from someone
or something in their life, such as relationships
with themselves, with aspects of their
personality, their concepts, ideas, feelings etc.,
or other people in their lives.
O The purpose of this technique is to get the
patient to think about their emotions and
attitudes
The empty chair techniqe
O Step 1. Invitation
O Invite the choosen person to sit in the empty chair
O Step 2. The client express his/her feelings,
thoughts
O Use the form of a normal dialogue
O Step 3. The client sits in the empty chair
O The client answers in the name of the „guest”
Step 2 and 3 can be repeated several times
O Step 4. Let the „guest” go.
O Formally break up the situation
 The empty chair video

O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ4Uyf
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Sculptures
 Family constellations
O Family Constellations is a therapeutic method
which draws on elements of family systems
therapy, existential phenomenology and
attitudes to family.
O In a single session, a Family Constellation
attempts to reveal a previously unrecognized
systemic dynamic that spans multiple
generations in a given family and to resolve the
deleterious effects of that dynamic by
encouraging the subject to accept the factual
reality of the past.
 Constellation technique
O Step 1. Build a sculpture
O You can use any kind of materials (people, chairs,
stones, pencils etc.)
O Step 2. Explore the sculpture
O Who is who?
O What are they doing?
O Step 3. Explore each member by sitting/standing next
to them
O Feelings, concerns, wishes
O Step 4. Optionally restructure the sculpture to an
optimal form
O Step 5. Unbild the sculpture