Abstract
The integration of voice as part of dramatherapy, following the model of the Sesame approach to Drama and Movement Therapy, can help clients express themselves and form communication with others creatively. This paper presents an experimental voice group which I led with a group of dramatherapists in order to encourage them to enable the voice to become a more essential component of their dramatherapeutic practice. The paper describes the sessions the voice group has undergone, including brief introductions which present the central vocal theme of each session. These themes include breathing, the authentic voice, the child archetype, voice and feeling, stories, the hunter archetype and chants and songs. The author gives some practical suggestions for voice activities that can be embedded in therapeutic intervention. Finally, this article presents the participants' impressions of the voice work, derived from a questionnaire they filled in. According to their feedback, this article concludes that more voice should be integrated in dramatherapy as a therapeutic tool. The author supplies different methods that may be used in order to encourage dramatherapists and their clients to integrate voice more naturally with movement, drama, story, play and touch, the main elements of the Sesame approach to dramatherapy.
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