2016

Wednesday, 1st June
Dr Nisha Sajnani
An Introduction to Developmental Transformations (DVT)

Saturday, 13th-14th June – Arts for Wellbeing
Developmental movement in education, therapy and the arts

Saturday, 23rd-24th May – Arts for Wellbeing
Arts, Identity and Healing in the Context of the Refugee Crisis

2015

Saturday & Sunday, 4th-5th July
Barbara Erber
Somatic Work and Dance Movement Psychotherapy Workshop

Saturday & Sunday, 13th-14th June
Susan Loman
Developmental movement in education, therapy and the arts

Saturday & Sunday, 23rd-24th May
Meghan Slade
Embodiment tool for educators, artists, and therapists: Influences from Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals

Tuesday, 19th May
Professor Andrew Samuels
Does the World Need Psychotherapy? – Political and Personal Perspectives

Monday, 27th April
Professor Helen Payne
Hard-to-control unexplainable medical symptoms: Wellbeing for body and mind’

Thursday, 23rd April
Raymond MacDonald
What is human musicality and why it is important: Daniel Barenboim, Willie Wonka, Billy Connolly, jazz bastards and the universality of improvisation

Saturday 28th February & Sunday, 1st March
Dr Bonnie Meekums
Working with Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: Using Arts Interventions Safely

Friday, 27th February
Dr Bonnie Meekums
Arts Interventions for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse -‘Speaking the Unspeakable’ and the Importance of Safety as a ‘Vector Catalyst’.

Thursday, 15th Jauary 2015
Vicky Karkou
Dance and the Arts in Psychotherapy: What is Their Contribution for Wellbeing?

2014

Wednesday, 19th November
Dr Eva Urban, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
Manifesto: theatre against reification

Wednesday, 1st October
Professor Robert Gordon, Director, The Pinter Centre
Goldsmiths’ approach to Practice based Research, in the context of REF

Wednesday, 25th June
Dr Laura Haughey, University of Waikato, New Zealand,
“Choice. Control. Expression. Freedom. A model for Disability Arts in the work of Equal Voices”

Tuesday, 24th June
Professor Victor Merriman
Theorising the Flourishing City: from Enfield to Anfield

Wednesday, 18th June
Dr Kate Katafiasz, Newman University, Birmingham, Exploring Identity and Difference in Edward Bond’s Tune (2011)

Saturday, 14th & Sunday, 15th June
Developmental movement for children and their families

Saturday, 26th & Sunday, 27th April
Working with Depression through the Arts Psychotherapies: Research Evidence and Clinical Applications

Wednesday, 5th March
Professor Tim Prentki, Performance and Civic Futures Research Seminar

2013

September
Healthful Dancing Symposium: the significance of improvisation in paediatric healthcare

30th April
Mark Edward & Company in collaboration with Julia Griffin
Falling Apart at the Seams – performance, and post-performance Seminar on Age Discrimination in Dance

22nd & 23rd March
International Colloquium on Performance and Domination

25th of February
Professor Victor Merriman
Inaugural lecture: You can see into the future from here: Playing Ireland in Hard Times

18th & 19th of January
A Symposium on Costume and Scenography – Critical Costume

2012

Digital Edge Writing Award for innovative (writing) approaches responding to digital interactions intrinsic to contemporary social experience, exploring how social media might support creative interaction among practitioners, and between practitioners and audiences (Department of Performing Arts, with Rose Theatre, Ormskirk, North West Playwrights, and Capital Theatre Festival).

The INDRA Congress (August).

2009

Annual European Contact Improvisation Teachers’ Exchange:Living Narratives (collaboration with Lotto Lab), Rose Theatre