Dr Sue Jennings leads a seminar on:

Neuro-Dramatic Play including issues of LGBTQ+ trans: Enabling Form and Order from Mess and Chaos

You can book this as a single seminar here through the ‘book online’ link above. Seminars must be attended live on the day. To avail of the recording and full ‘Attachment & Children’ certificate or diploma course benefits and to find out more, click here: https://international-attachment-network.mn.co/

Abstract:

The Temiar peoples of the Malaysian rain forest have a child centred life-style with frequent dancing, singing and trancing. Fathers follow the same ‘rules’ of pregnancy as mothers, and both parents are loving and indulgent to their children. We shall see how attachment is not only within the family but also the village and the wider community. There is a collective protection against the dangers of thunder and tiger.

The following questions are discussed:

Parental Attachment, Social Attachment, non-violent parenting. LGBTQ+ topics are discussed separately from the tribal experience.

Learning outcomes:

Participants will understand a new context of attachment

The life of the tribe will make sense within an alternative culture

Neuro-Dramatic-Play’s focus on pregnancy attachment

Attitudes and choices towards LGBTQ+

About

Professor Sue Jennings PhD is Visiting Professor at the University of Derby, Honorary Fellow of the University of Roehampton, anthropologist, performer, author and Professor of Play – awarded by the European Federation of Dramatherapy. She has been a pioneer of Dramatherapy and Play Therapy in the UK and overseas, establishing training programmes in UK, Greece, Romania, Czech Republic and Israel. Professor Jennings’ paradigm ‘embodiment-projection-role’ is integrated into education and therapy world-wide. Having worked as a clinician in psychiatry, forensic settings and special education, she has focused her recent practice and research on early years development and developed ‘Neuro-Dramatic-Play’ as a basis for attachment and empathy.

She emphasizes the importance of ‘play from conception’ for healthy emotional and social growth. Her doctoral fieldwork was with a tribal community in the Malaysian rain forest, which she believes underpins all her childhood theory and therapy. Sue is a prolific author with over fifty publications on theory and application to her name. She believes passionately in ‘playing for peace’ with a rule of ‘no guns in the playroom’.

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