International PUPPET THERAPY Training
Spring 2024 in BARCELONA
Led by Andrea Markovits & Polo Fernández
Guest Matthew Bernier
*To apply, you must fill out the application form and send it to:
puppettherapybcn@gmail.com
Once we receive the completed application form, we will send you the payment
information (method of payment, via PayPal, Swift Code, or Western Union).
* Training includes materials.
* * A certificate of participation will be given on the last day of the training
PRESENTATION
For the first time, we meet in person with our colleague Matthew Bernier, after three
years of collaborative teaching in the Puppet Therapy Online Course. Matthew will
accompany us in this intensive week of creation and research, joining our experiences
and views on the contemporary field of Therapeutic Animated Forms.
The International Puppet Therapy Training is a 5-day training in the center of Barcelona,
which aims to bring together former course students and other professionals interested
in the therapeutic power of puppets, art therapy, mental health and animated forms.
In response to international scenarios of emergencies and learned hopelessness, this
training presents and reviews Puppet Therapy Chile’s model of research and
intervention with adults in contexts of memory, trauma informed and transgenerational
damage (Post Memory).
The conscious look at the use of animated forms is trained from the model of Expressive
Therapies (ETC) for the deep understanding of the main areas of the brain involved in
the creative work with materialities and puppets in movement.
This training also trains in animation, in the silent language (without words) of animated
forms (puppets, objects, and materials), and in the cognitive functions of these to
integrate elements of art therapy, the dramatic and plastic function of puppet theater as
resources to guide group processes from the creation and exploration centered on the
person and their potential for repair at the individual and group level.
It is based on the importance of the therapist’s role in the group, in listening and
observing metaphors and group emergent as creative material for the elaboration of new
narratives from the process of creation and animation.
The © Model of Therapeutic Animated Forms: Memory & Trauma presents a
guideline with strategies that allow to accompany individual and collective traumas in
the creation of intimate and safe processes from the informed trauma, where the
personal becomes collective, achieving to physicalize in matter and figure complex
experiences that allow to find metaphors to approach, resignify, and understand
traumatic experiences.
TO WHOM IT IS AIMED
This training is aimed at therapists, art therapists, psychologists, social workers, drama
therapists, puppeteers, play therapists, artists, and other professionals involved in
therapeutic work at the individual or group level, linked to the world of therapy and
the arts for social change.
LANGUAGE
Guided in English and Spanish
DATES
Monday, March 18 to Friday, March 22 from 10:00 to 17:30 hrs.
ADDRESS
D’Ortigosa 14, 2nd floor. Metro Plaza Urquinaona, Barcelona Center.
PROGRAM
DAY 1
10:00 – 11:30 Welcome and registration of participants.
Presentation of the speakers.
Introduction to the method of work Muñecoterapia Chile and the
concept of Therapeutic Dimension of the Animated Forms from the
Informed Trauma. ©2020
11:30 – 11:45 BREAK
11:45 – 13:00 Post-Memory and Object Biography.
Workshop with objects.
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 – 16:00 The Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) applied to Puppet Therapy in
understanding information processing in the brain.
16:00 – 16:15 BREAK
16:15 – 17:30 Animation workshop with giant materials: From the material in pain to
the figure.
DAY 2
10:00 – 11:30 Case studies.
Psychological functions of puppets.
11:30 – 11:45 BREAK
11:45 – 13:00 Types of puppets applied to therapy: benefits and difficulties.
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 – 16:00 Puppet self-portrait construction workshop (Materialities).
16:00 – 16:15 BREAK
16:15 – 17:30 Puppet Self-Portrait Construction Workshop (Objects).
DAY 3
10:00 – 11:30 Group identity is formed through explorations of materials and objects.
Discovering the identity of the group (its pulse and movement)
How to work the slogans. Group animation.
11:30 – 11:45 BREAK
11:45 – 13:00 Phases of the creative process, according to Fiorini can be applied to
puppet therapy.
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 – 16:00 The hurt matter: the use of animated forms in emergency contexts:
natural disasters, forced displacements, and wars. An example of the
use of the portable studio.
16:00 – 16:15 BREAK
16:15 – 17:30 Self-portrait construction workshop.
DAY 4
10:00 – 11:30 The metaphor of damage. Trauma, objects, and puppets. The puppet’s
body as a safe double.
11:30 – 11:45 BREAK
11:45 – 13:00 Work with collective scenes to experience and analyze the conductive
power of the puppet as an intermediary object and the physicalization
of trauma.
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 – 16:30 Collective Objectual Memory. Workshop with objects. Use of the object
as a support for the recovery of hope at a collective level.
16:00 – 16:15 BREAK
16:15 – 17:30 Self-portrait construction workshop.
DAY 5
10:00 – 11:30 Dismantling and analysis of symbols in the works of Puppets In Transit.
Therapeutic creative processes (the therapeutics of art) v/s Art
Therapy.
11:30 – 11:45 BREAK
11:45 – 13:00 The therapist’s metaphors.
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 – 16:00 Sample of students’ final animated self-portrait exercises.
16:00 – 16:15 BREAK
16:15 – 17:30 Certificates and the closing ceremon
