Group Type: Support Group
Goals of the Group:
- Foster trust and group cohesion through movement and storytelling.
- Explore relational dynamics and self-awareness.
- Embrace internal roles and facets of the self in a safe, creative space.
- Navigate interpersonal tension, empathy, and self-awareness.
- Integrate insights and envision future growth.
Who Is The Group For?
- Individuals seeking deeper self-exploration and connection.
- Those interested in psychodrama, drama therapy, and creative arts practices.
- People open to movement, storytelling, and interactive techniques.
Discussion Topics:
- Building trust and group connection.
- Inner roles and self-exploration.
- Conflict, empathy, and self-awareness.
- Future visioning and integration.
What Will We Talk About?
- Relational dynamics and shared narratives.
- Internal roles and personal growth.
- Interpersonal tension and resolution.
- Future goals and meaningful transitions.
Glimpse of the Session:
Session 1: Finding Our Place
- Warm-up: Orientation, ice-breaker drama games, sociometric check-ins.
- Map making via collage.
- Sharing creative reflections and active witnessing.
- Online-specific rituals for safe entry and closure.
Session 2: Exploring the Inner Landscape
- Warm-up: Breathework, enrole-ing rituals, and object puppetry.
- Inner character exploration with Hero’s Journey, Playback theatre, and sociometry.
- Storytelling and creative sharing.
- Dance and drama deroling rituals.
Session 3: Conflict and Connection
- Conflict dialogue with metaphors, embodiment, and scene work.
- Identifying resources and actions for self-support.
- Grounding and containment post-activation.
- Group debrief, integration, and deroling rituals with poetry.
Session 4: Integration and Forward Motion
- Movement, poetry, and interview-style check-ins.
- Letter writing or psychodrama to explore “Future Self.”
- Building a group chant, gratitude, and movement rituals.
- Integration, deroling, and celebration.
Note: The session topics, order, and other details may be subject to change based on the needs and preferences of the group members and facilitators.
Facilitator Bio:
Facilitator: Rakshita Goel
Rakshita Goel is a Creative Arts therapist specialising in Dramatherapy, as well as a certified Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practitioner, with over 8 years of experience in mental health, spanning India and England. For the past 5 years, she has been practicing as a therapist at her private practice, taptoheal. Additionally, she is affiliated with The Mind Garden, Aagaz Theatre Trust, FAHI (Foundation of Arts and Health India), and serves on the Executive Board of the Drama Therapy Association of India (DTI).She has extensive experience of working with the age group of 18-50 years experiencing/suffering trauma, abuse, grief, relationship difficulties, stress and anxiety, among other issues. Her work draws upon exploring self-using trauma-informed lens, utilising internal family systems, relational work and creative expressive methods within a therapeutic relationship.She has done her graduation from Delhi University, India and her post-graduation for MSU Vadodara, India and Roehampton University, London. She has previously worked with organisations like National School of Drama (TIE), Centre for Child and Adolescent Well-being and I am Wellbeing. Additionally, she holds passion for community and grass root level work and has run multiple therapy groups with Ashray Adhikar Abhiyan.‘We are fellow travellers’- Irwin D. Yalom and I feel privileged to be able to have that opportunity to be alongside that beautiful journey we might take together.
Rakshita Goel is a Creative Arts therapist specialising in Dramatherapy, as well as a certified Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practitioner, with over 8 years of experience in mental health, spanning India and England. For the past 5 years, she has been practicing as a therapist at her private practice, taptoheal. Additionally, she is affiliated with The Mind Garden, Aagaz Theatre Trust, FAHI (Foundation of Arts and Health India), and serves on the Executive Board of the Drama Therapy Association of India (DTI).She has extensive experience of working with the age group of 18-50 years experiencing/suffering trauma, abuse, grief, relationship difficulties, stress and anxiety, among other issues. Her work draws upon exploring self-using trauma-informed lens, utilising internal family systems, relational work and creative expressive methods within a therapeutic relationship.She has done her graduation from Delhi University, India and her post-graduation for MSU Vadodara, India and Roehampton University, London. She has previously worked with organisations like National School of Drama (TIE), Centre for Child and Adolescent Well-being and I am Wellbeing. Additionally, she holds passion for community and grass root level work and has run multiple therapy groups with Ashray Adhikar Abhiyan.‘We are fellow travellers’- Irwin D. Yalom and I feel privileged to be able to have that opportunity to be alongside that beautiful journey we might take together.
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