Category: Travel

• IPTN: Our Workshop

  Our workshop provided an opportunity for directors, and individual performers, to think with us about disability, inclusion, and aesthetics. The time allotted to the workshop passed much too quickly as we engaged in a deep conversation about these difficult topics. One  of the most challenging aspects of any conversation about theater and disability is making…

  Michael Watson PhD

  July 23, 2015

  Arts, Disability, Stories, Teaching, Travel

  disability, IPTN, Playback Theatre, teaching, theatre

• IPTN: Making Room at the Table

  Last week we were at the International Playback Theatre Network (IPTN) conference in Montreal, where along with marvelous summer festivals, the city was discussing the Oka crisis of twenty-five years ago. In a very familiar conversation, Federal and provincial governments were heralding the great improvement in their relations with First Nations people, while many Indigenous…

  Michael Watson PhD

  July 16, 2015

  First Nations, Stories, Travel

  First Nations, IPTN, stories, teaching

• The Land Remembers, Italy

  We were visiting cousin Toni and her family in a hilltop, walled village near Torino. Looking out across the landscape we saw castles, and their villages, atop each of the many surrounding hills. Between each village lay fertile fields and the occasional woodland. Vineyards and orchards appeared here and there across the countryside. The Alps…

  Michael Watson PhD

  June 2, 2015

  Travel

  Italy, Torino, trauma, travel

• Questioning the Expressive Therapies

  This past weekend we were in Montreal for an Expressive Therapies training. Oddly, it quickly became evident the presentation would largely ignore the experiences of persons of color, First Nations people, and those with disabilities. At about the time Jennie and I were becoming concerned about the direction the training was taking, a woman further…

  Michael Watson PhD

  September 29, 2014

  First Nations, Psychotherapy, Social issues, Travel

  Expressive Therapies, First Nations, Indigenous, Narrative Therapy, psychotherapy