Drama Therapy Education and Research Center in JapanJapanese/日本語へ
Drama Therapy Education and Research Center in Japan
Japanese/日本語へ
The purpose of the Drama Therapy Education and Research Center in Japan
is to disseminate drama therapy activities in education field , including
family education, school education, continued education, workplace trainings,
thereby contributing to the public interests.
The Center is composed of supervisors, advisors, and a steering committee
members, who understand and agree to apply to education field the activities
of drama therapy (including activities that will utilize healing capacities
of drama and theater to enhance people's lives and daily behaviors). It
offers education, seminars, and trainings to people who desire to learn
such activities as stated above.
Initial activities of this organization are to offer seminars and workshops
mainly to school teachers, parents, and people in education and various
health and mental care programs for children/students so that these people
will have new perspectives in their work with children to nurture and keep
them healthy in mind and body. Components of our seminars and workshops
are not only drama therapy, but the approaches from many other education
fields will also be adopted.
Zoom Workshop Announcement!
November 28th, 2021, Sunday, 10 am to 12 pm (JST)
"How the Arts can Help Suicide Survivors Heal"
"The Hidden Face of Suicide" by Yehudit Silverman will be screened
first,
Discussion will follow between audience and Yehudit Silverman/Akeyo Onoe.
This event is to introduce the film and its concept to the Japanese audience
as the film now comes with the Japanese subtiles.
The event was successfully conducted. A message from the Center:
"There attended many different people; those who lost their loved
ones to suicide, who help others in difficulty, who research human sciences
and art. Though this was one-time gathering, the commitment and trust to
the place and time by the participants ensured care for each one of them,
which I appreciate. While words are important, we all felt that art can
exceed them. Reaching out to our society to change the situation of suicide
is felt to be vital. I hope this event has been one small step forward.
Our greatest gratitude to Yehudit Silverman for her movie, guidance and
initiative in the event. Thank you." (Akeyo Onoe)
Inquiry, mail to:: dtercen@yahoo.co.jp
Activities of Akeyo Onoe in Japan:
Akeyo Onoe introduced drama therapy to Japan in 1999, and have been teaching and practicing it at the Graduate School of Human Science of Ritsumeikan University and at Drama Therapy Education and Research Center in Japan.
She has provided some core drama therapy classes and training for hundreds of grad students, who seek to be helping professionals in various fields. The ideas and experiences of drama therapy help them become more competent in their own professions.
The themes of the master’s theses of her students include not only drama therapy but also a wide range of social issues, related to human sciences, Almost all students use qualitative research methods such as ethnography and arts-based research. She has also taught classes for better communication skills through drama therapy to thousands of undergrad students.
Despite the small number (currently 4) of RDTs in the whole of Japan, our activities have been quite meaningful and will be preparing for the next phase of drama therapy in Japan.
Contact: Drama Therapy Education & Research Center
: Information on drama therapy courses by Akeyo Onoe:
# Graduate School of Human Services of Ritsumeikan Univ.
（立命館大学大学院 人間科学研究科）
→ http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/gshs/teacher/onoe/ (in Japanese)
# Drama Therapy Education & Research Center in Japan
(You are now on this site!)
（ドラマセラピー教育・研究センター）
Drama Therapy Essential Training for Kanto 10th cohort (2020)
Started on Aug 15 2020
→ Program Contents: (in Japanese)
Pictures and Messages from Trainees of Advance and Essential:
→DT Advance Training: Kanto 1st/2nd/3rd cohorts; Kansai 1st cohort
→DT Essential Training Kanto 1st cohort (2007)
→DT Essential Training Kanto 2nd cohort (2008)
→DT Essential Training Kanto 3rd cohort (2009-10)
→DT Essential Training Kanto 4th cohort (2010-11)
→DT Essential Training Kanto 5th cohort (2012)
→DT Essential Training Kanto 6th cohort (2013-14)
→DT Essential Training Kansai 1st cohort (2013)
→DT Essential Training Kanto 7th cohort (2014-15)
→DT Essential Training Kanto 8th cohort (2015-16)
All our efforts to see smiles like these!
* Supervisors
Renee Emunah, Ph.D., RDT/BCT
Registered Drama Therapist (RDT)
Board Certified Trainer of Drama Therapists（BCT)
Founder/Director, Drama Therapy (Masters) Program, California Institute
of Integral Studies
Past-President, National Association for Drama Therapy
Author, Acting for Real: Drama Therapy Process, Technique, and Performance
(Translated into Chinese and Japanese; Japanese translation by Akeyo
Onoe)
The message from Renee Emunah to this center:
"Akeyo Onoe has been spearheading drama therapy endeavors in Japan,
with
professionalism, integrity, and dedication. Now she and others have forged ahead
with the first Drama Therapy Education and Research Center in Japan, which
will be an important contribution to the field of education, and an enrichment to
the lives of children in Japan."
Sally Bailey, MFA, MSW, RDT/BCT
Registered Drama Therapist (RDT)
Board Certified Trainer of Drama Therapists (BCT)
Associate Professor, Director of Drama Therapy at Kansas State University
Past President, National Association for
Drama Therapy
Author, "Wings to Fly", "Barrier-Free Drama (will be published
in 2006)"
Co-author, "Dreams to Sign"
The message from Sally Bailey to this center:
"Drama Therapy has benefits and applications for education, community-building,
personal growth and creativity, and mental health and medical services. The beauty
of Drama Therapy is that it is action-oriented and deals with the whole person:
body, mind, emotions, and spirit. It
allows participants to make their own discoveries and come to their own new
understandings of themselves and others.
This is so important in our complex modern world which keeps constantly
changing. We need to be able to examine our
roles within our world and our feelings and thoughts about those roles on an
ongoing basis. Drama Therapy allows each
of us to do that and also to explore how we can interact more effectively and
respectfully with each other based on that self-understanding.
In drama therapy participants can rehearse life strategies and test them out in a safe way. If ideas or actions don’t work the first time through, they can be revised and tried out again before being put into practice in the “real world.” This, ultimately, saves time and can avert failure.
I believe that Japan is a place which will welcome and embrace drama therapy
methods as a tool for dealing with the complexities of the 21st century."
* Advisers
Takayuki Aoyama
Representative of Theatre Company DAC, Director, Playwright
Former Chairperson of Education Board of Saitama Prefecture
Past Chairperson of Education Board of Okegawa City
Past President of Education Center of Saitama Prefecture
Message:
"At the bottom of healing through drama lie evocation and elicitation
of will and motivation. This power lets people come out with all their
potentialities."
Yoshie Ogasawara
Representative of Psychology Office TMS
Clinical Psychotherapist
Certified Supervisor of Japan Group Psychotherapy Association
Board Member of Japan Psychodrama Association
Message:
"Emotions affect people to change. And, people are moved not by knowledge
or theories, but by their own experiences. Fascination of drama is this
experience of emotion. I sincerely expect that 'the Drama Therapy Education
and Research Center' will offer ground for general public to know better
the attraction of drama."
Akihiro Odanaka
Assistant Professor; Special Course on Expressive Culture in Graduate School/Faculty
of Literature and Human Sciences/Osaka City University
Kyoko Ono
Representative of Expressive Arts Therapy Institute
Chief Board Member of NPO Art Work Japan
Message:
"I truly feel that expressive arts including drama nurture people's
(and children's) mind, and facilitate rich interactions. My hope is to
see more arts therapies be practiced in educational scenes. I support Ms
Onoe to wider activities."
Yasuhiro Kumagai (deceased 2014)
Professor of College of Fine Arts at Nihon University
Message:
"May the conscience of drama therapy reach not only pupils and teachers
in classrooms but also school managers as well as administration, with
its true picture and message. To that end, more studies will be called
for."
Kimiko Gunji
Director of Japan House
Associate Professor of Japanese Art and Culture Department of College of
Fine Arts at University of Illinois
Message:
"Congratulations on the start of the Drama Therapy Education and Research Center. In a time when we are made more machine-like, it is wonderful that we are healed in mind and recover our human nature through drama therapy. As 'a grain' sprouts and gives flowers, I pray, Akeyo's efforts give splendid flowers and fruit well."
Kiyoshi Takara (deceased 2017)
M.D.
Professor of division of Psychology and Social Studies in Literature Department
of Meiji University
Message:
"Learning through bodies offers unlimited potentialities, excelling knowledge-based education through mere words. Drama therapy education, as an approach using bodies, affects our mind, and, benefits in forming a well balanced human nature in knowledge, affect and willingness. I have a great hope in the activities of this Center for the new era."
Hiromasa Tanaka
Ed.D.
Professor, International Studies Department, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Meisei University
Message:
"More people seem to need healing, at school and at workplace, in
the midst of big social changes. I expect that the Drama Therapy Education
and Research Center will be a place to disseminate and apply the achievements,
which I know, and, which Ms Onoe has achieved in college courses, and,
in drama therapy sessions for the disabled and their families in Kunitachi
city."
* Steering committee members
Takeo Miyakawa
Professor of Department of Humanities at Meisei University
Councilor of Japan Juvenile Literature Society
Fumihiro Hoashi
Past principal of an elementary school in Tokyo
Instructor for National Elementary Japanese Education Association, and
its Tokyo district
Akeyo Onoe
M. Ed, Registered Drama Therapist, BCT
Professor at Graduate School of Human Services of Ritsumeikan Univ.
Lecturer at Tokyo University Education Dpt.
* Representative for DTERCenter
Akeyo Onoe
Contact： dtercen@yahoo.co.jp
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