Trame – Social Theatre and the Training of Social and Healthcare Workers
A method developed by Tiziana Tesauro #CNRIRPPS and Francesco Campanile for the professional #training of physicians, nurses, and social workers, designed to develop self-awareness, reflexivity, and emotional intelligence.
A book addressed to the social and healthcare training sector, presenting a case study that enables reflection on how fruitful collaboration between different professional knowledge and practices can be. https://bit.ly/3aKYBI9
A podcast featuring the author interviewed by Tiziana Tarsia for #posdacstsociologici, interviews with authors of recent sociological texts based on original empirical research.
https://bit.ly/3a36VE0
A video from #CnrWebTv presents the practice, testimonials, and reactions of participants; https://l.cnr.it/igan0
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Born from the collaboration between a sociologist and a theatre actor and director, Trame is an experiential workshop designed for the professional training of those who work in caring for others—such as physicians, nurses, and social workers—based on the idea that these professions, more than others, may be exposed to the risk of existential shipwreck, especially when practicing in complex contexts that trample upon personal experiences and representations. Those who work in caring professions necessarily come into contact not only with others, but more deeply with themselves and their own existential project; however, if professional practice lacks the opportunity to work on one’s own existential possibilities, the cognitive, emotional, and affective resources needed to work on the existential possibilities of others will likely be depleted sooner or later.
In light of this, Trame was created—a training pathway that enables caregivers to take care of themselves using theatrical language. Through a vast repertoire of exercises and techniques normally used in actor training, Trame offers a training experience centered on exercising the body and its emotional and affective dimensions. Thus addressing a gap that still exists in traditional training pathways, the method aims to train bodily knowledge to develop self-awareness and reflexivity regarding one’s professional practice.
The ArtLab Bergamo 2020 event website published a report of the working session entitled
“Lesson Learned 2. Caring for Caregivers. Caring for Society” A video clip of the presentations is available on the page
Main Bibliographic References:
Tesauro T. (2022) a. Theatre and professional training: The Trame method, in The British Journal of Social Work, The British journal of social work, Vol.52 (8), p.5009-5026
Tesauro T. (2022) b. On Stage without a Script. A Theatrical Workshop for Professional Training, in Theater(s) and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society, Volume 2, p. 129-141
Tesauro T. (2022) c. Il laboratorio teatrale per sviluppare la riflessività negli operatori socio-sanitari, in Milione A., Tesauro T. (a cura di) L’apprendimento permanente degli adulti. Esperienze e pratiche. Pavia: Edizioni Altravista.