Kids’ Personal Development Through Drama

Get good at YOU, and have fun doing it!

The number one priority for our Kids Drama Workshop is “FUN AND GAMES”, quite literally. For two and a half fast paced, laugh-a-minute hours, our workshop gives kids a chance to let loose, to delve into their deepest happiness and to get excited about the person they are.

Together we play drama games which inherently engage children’s listening skills, body language interpretation, communication skills, their understanding of empathy and how to both recognize it and demonstrate it in their own behaviours.

All of our games draw on drama forms and theories including Shakespearean Classicism, Realism, Augusto Boal’s Theatre of The Oppressed, therapeutic Process Drama and Safe Space Theory.

Participants will be welcomed into a safe, bully-free space with joy and excitement as they experience the thrill of working creatively with peers towards better versions of themselves. The empahsis of this workshop is not on ‘performance’ in the traditional sense, but on understanding how we ‘perform ourselves’ in everyday life.

“Personal Development Through Drama; Get Good at YOU”

ABOUT YOUR TEACHER

Danielle is a blue card holder with Bachelor Degrees in Acting for Theatre, Film & Television Production and is pursuing her Master’s Degree, in which her research foci explore Corporate Applications of Social and Therapeutic Drama.

She has proudly undertaken roles such as Casting Manager for Dallys Models in Brisbane and as Class Coordinator and Teacher for the June Dally Watkins Professional and Personal Development Training program.

Danielle has been teaching drama to children, teens and adults for over two decades in institutions such as USQ, UQ and QUT as tutor, peer tutor and lecturer for undergraduate drama, postgraduate arts management and the Oodgeroo indigenous student mentoring program.

Danielle believes in fostering empathetic and intellectually engaged communication through the practice of creativity.