Nov 28 2026 to Nov 28 2026 3 p.m.

Where

Sabha Blr

No.44/A, Kamaraj Road, Bharati Nagar, Shivaji Nagar, Bengaluru 560042

Event Description

Dramatherapy

An Experience Sharing Session by Vardhan Deshpande

In this session, Vardhan Deshpande reflects on his journey with Dramatherapy and its possibilities as a practice of healing, expression and transformation.

Over the past two-and-a-half years, he has been working with children at risk through Dramatherapy sessions, alongside six months of work with specially-abled children. This journey has involved much more than conducting sessions — it has been a continuous process of observing, designing, planning, facilitating, implementing, documenting and reflecting. Each group and every individual encounter has shaped his understanding of how theatre, play, imagination, embodiment, storytelling and creative expression can create spaces for children to explore themselves, connect with others and experience agency.

The session will share key experiences from this practice: the challenges encountered, the learning that emerged, the questions that continue to remain, and the ways in which reflection has influenced subsequent interventions. It will also look towards the future — considering how Dramatherapy and Applied Theatre can evolve in working with children and communities, and the ethical, creative and contextual sensitivities that such practice demands.

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