Though not all drama therapy is performance-based, this 10 week workshop will allow participants to develop, create, and perform a 10 minute self-revelatory performance by the ending of the series. Participants will join in both group and individual processes of self-inquiry to identify something they’d like to present on, and will write, create and perform their piece to be witnessed by the group participants.

Developed by Renee Emunah, the chair of the Drama Therapy program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, the self-revelatory performance is “a unique form of solo theatre and drama therapy in which the person creates a theatrical piece based on therapeutically working through current issues”. Through this process, participants will work collaboratively with the group leader to “unravel layers until one arrives at what is most essential, and discover where and how healing might organically occur” (Emunah, 2020).

Join us for this deeply moving, organic process this spring, 2022. Those interested are encouraged to utilize the contact form on this website.

About the presenter:

Kimberly Koljat, ILMFT-S (OH), LMFT (CA), RPT-S, RDT completed her own 10 minute self-revelatory performance and full length self-revelatory performance as part of the graduate program in Drama Therapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She has been trained in directing the self-rev, has been honored to witness others’ self-revs, and is honored to bring this process to Northeast Ohio.