neuro-dramatic-play & performance

Next Course date for 2024:

Sun 6th - Fri 11th Oct

Course Fee: £400.00 (€470.00)

6 Day Diploma /CertificateCourse (depending on experience and qualifications)

A Journey of Discovery
NDP is for anyone interested in the development of children - parent, grand-parent, therapist, social worker, teacher and theatre artist - the list is endless.

Studying NDP on Naxos is a unique experience! To be able to learn attachment-based play in a playful environment satisfies our basic needs! It provides a break from our usual routines, together with learning something new!

NDP is something new! It enables us to rediscover the roots of play in our early attachment experience and realise the creative development that will emerge. This culminates in our need to perform and demonstrate mastery of our creative process.

Attachment and play need to go together, each feeding the other from strengthening the body to brain growth. Bodies need to inform brains for the integrated development of our emotional intelligence alongside other growing areas.

This 6-day course in October includes work with international dramatherapy pioneer Dr Sue Jennings*. It includes developmental play, messy and rhythmic play, sand play (on the beach) and stories, in an idyllic setting close to sand and sea. We shall explore therapeutic stories together and see how they can be embodied, painted and enacted, thus extending our creative skills beyond their limits. Participants will have completed enough creative skills to achieve a diploma, advanced diploma or trainers certificate in NDP.

Above all, you will have fun - playing together on a journey of discovery.

WHAT YOU WILL GET:
Each day may begin with a yoga session or an early morning beach walk.  

You will take part in two, three-hour sessions per day led by skilled practitioners. Sue Jennings will lead the majority of the sessions and be around during all sessions as well as available for private tutorials (please book in advance via email). Other sessions will be led by performance experts Ros and Neil Johnson. *Some sessions may be run by NDP advanced practitioners under the supervision of Dr Sue.

There is time to sit by the beach, have a swim or a siesta.  

There will be plenty of time to write your process diary or journal as the sun sets before or after dinner in one of our recommended tavernas or restaurants.  

Note: This course is a training course and should not be used as personal therapy.