scholarly journals Feeling real and rehearsal for reality: psychosocial aspects of ‘forum theatre’ in care settings and prisons

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
Lynn Froggett ◽  
Laura Kelly-Corless ◽  
Julian Manley
Keyword(s):  
Third Space ◽  
Psychosocial Aspects ◽  
Observational Research ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Transitional Space ◽  
Augusto Boal ◽  
True Self ◽  
Forum Theatre ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
Reflective Capacity

This article discusses psychosocial aspects of a short drama module, drawing on observational research into the adaptation of ‘forum theatre’ by Odd Arts theatre company for people in educational, care and custodial settings. The course facilitated the enactment of life experiences and choices, enhancing self-awareness and reflective capacity. The drama space is considered as ‘third space’, and a transitional space, where participants play with creative illusion in what Augusto Boal called a ‘rehearsal for reality’. We argue that the use of third-space and third-position thinking is key to understanding forum theatre as a restorative practice both through rehearsal and in ‘playing for real’ before an audience ‐ a symbolic community that offers the opportunity for recognition. Problems attendant on the performance of ‘false self’ arise where there is collusive avoidance of difficult issues because the value of forum theatre lies in the achievement of authorship and authenticity ‐ or ‘true self’ ‐ publicly performed and owned. It is this that allows individuals to imagine the possibility of creative living in the future.

Authentic leadership development: scrutiny of an apparent paradox

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
António Calheiros
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
True Self ◽  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
Positive Behaviors ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
Authentic Leadership Development

Leadership has long been a topic of interest for both academics (Hiller, DeChurch, Murase, & Doty, 2011; Sanders & Davey, 2011) and practitioners (Bennis, 2007; George, 2003). Academics have tried to understand the concept and identify its consequences and determinants. Practitioners have focused their efforts in its training and development hoping to reap its promised benefits. Over the last decade, authentic leadership has emerged as the fashionable leadership theory. More than just promising impacts on performance and subordinates’ work satisfaction, authentic leadership addresses management’s long term demand for and ethic and moral commitment (Ghoshal, 2005; Rosenthal et al., 2007). Authentic leadership is “a process that draws from both positive psychological capacities and a highly developed organizational context, which results in both greater self-awareness and self-regulated positive behaviors on the part of leaders and associates, fostering positive self-development” (Luthans and Avolio, 2003). The components of authentic leadership’s self-regulated authentic positive behaviours are balanced (non-prejudice) processing, relational orientation and internalized moral perspetive. One key point of authentic leadership is the authenticity of leaders, which can be defined as “knowing, accepting, and remaining true to one’s self” (Avolio et al., 2004). Recent research (Ford & Harding, 2011) have argued that this demand for one’s true self privileges a collective (organizational) self over an individual self and thereby hampers subjectivity to both leaders and followers, and could lead to destructive dynamics within organizations. This paper discusses the seeming paradox of developing authenticity in leaders, (namely addressing the issues raised by Ford & Harding) and clarifies the aim of authentic leadership development. It also assesses the suitability of traditional leadership development methodologies in meeting the challenges posed by a process-based approach to leadership with a focus on individual and social identification.

scholarly journals Using photography to enhance GP trainees’ reflective practice and professional development

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rutherford ◽  
Emer Forde ◽  
Jacqueline Priego-Hernandez ◽  
Aurelia Butcher ◽  
Clare Wedderburn
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Reflective Capacity ◽  
Core Components ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
Gp Training

The capacity and the commitment to reflect are integral to the practice of medicine and are core components of most general practitioners (GP) training programmes. Teaching through the humanities is a growing area within medical education, but one which is often considered a voluntary ‘add-on’ for the interested doctor. This article describes an evaluation of a highly innovative pedagogical project which used photography as a means to enhance GP trainees’ reflective capacity, self-awareness and professional development. Photography was used as a tool to develop GP trainees’ skills in recognising and articulating the attitudes, feelings and values that might impact on their clinical work and to enhance their confidence in their ability to deal with these concerns/issues. We submit that photography is uniquely well suited for facilitating insight and self-reflection because it provides the ability to record ‘at the touch of a button’ those scenes and images to which our attention is intuitively drawn without the need for—or the interference of—conscious decisions. This allows us the opportunity to reflect later on the reasons for our intuitive attraction to these scenes. These photography workshops were a compulsory part of the GP training programme and, despite the participants’ traditional scientific backgrounds, the results clearly demonstrate the willingness of participants to accept—even embrace—the use of art as a tool for learning. The GP trainees who took part in this project acknowledged it to be beneficial for both their personal and professional development.

scholarly journals Self-Assessment of Professional Growth Through Reflective Portfolios

Phronesis ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jodi Nickel
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
First Year ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Teaching Competencies ◽  
First Year Teacher ◽  
Reflective Capacity

This study aims to discern how teacher candidates develop reflective capacity by self-assessing their portfolios. While the goal was to help first-year teacher candidates assess their progress toward achieving provincial teaching competencies, many called attention to the interconnections between their academic artifacts and their personal profiles. This led the researcher to refine the focus of the portfolio to the emergence of professional identity and developing structures to support this type of self-awareness.

Diaspora Space, the Regions, and British Asian Theatre

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Ley
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Performance Theory ◽  
Critical History ◽  
Theatre Companies ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
The University ◽  
Funded Research Project

In 1996 Graham Ley compiled for NTQ a record of the first twenty years of Tara Arts, the London-based British Asian theatre company. In this essay, he tests the theoretical concept of a third space for diaspora culture against the experience of two leading British Asian theatre companies, and considers the contrasting role of an Asian arts centre. From 2004 to 2009 Graham Ley led an AHRC-funded research project on ‘British Asian Theatre: Documentation and Critical History’, and has co-edited with Sarah Dadswell two books soon to be published by the University of Exeter Press: British South Asian Theatres: a Documented History and Critical Essays on British South Asian Theatre. He has earlier published in NTQ on Australian theatre and enlightenment and contemporary performance theory, and is presently Professor of Drama and Theory at the University of Exeter.

scholarly journals Goddess Worship and New Spirituality in the Postmodern World: a Brief Overview

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-40
Author(s):  
T. V Danylova
Keyword(s):  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
True Self ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
The Face ◽  
Spiritual Reality

Purpose. The paper aims at examining the phenomenon of the rebirth of the Goddess in the contemporary world. The author has used the hermeneutic approach and cultural-historical method, as well as the anthropological integrative approach. Theoretical basis. The study is based on the ideas of Carol Christ, Margot Adler, Miriam Simos, and Jean Shinoda Bolen. Originality. The rebirth of the Goddess is not a deconstruction of the God. The face of the Goddess is one side of the binary opposition "Goddess – God". Life on the earthly plane presupposes masculine and feminine dualism. However, these polarities are not mutually exclusive and mutually suppressive, but complementary to each other. The return of the Goddess to the throne and a profound appreciation of Femininity is a necessary step forward in establishing true equality and restoring lost harmony. As humanity returns to the Absolute that transcends duality, as divinity is revealed in feminine and masculine forms, and, finally, as humans get in touch with their true self, the two faces, feminine and masculine, will inevitably merge. Conclusions. Identifying herself with the images of the Goddesses, a woman develops self-awareness and self-acceptance that contribute greatly to her reintegration with a wider spiritual reality. The cult of the Goddess finds practical application in women’s lives. These are magical rituals, work with the archetypes, life-changing tours. Recognizing her right to the fullness of being, a woman overcomes rigid gender roles and stereotypes, ceases to be an object of manipulation and becomes the supreme arbiter of her own life.

Eliciting the True Self: The Effects of Doctoral Education on Students’ Implicit Leadership Theories and Authentic Leader Identity Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 194277511985863
Author(s):  
Gail F. Latta
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Doctoral Education ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Leadership Capacity ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
True Self ◽  
Leadership Theories ◽  
Implicit Leadership ◽  
Implicit Leadership Theories ◽  
Leader Identity

The essence of authentic leadership is alignment of actions with an identity grounded in the “true self.” Theoretically, achieving such alignment requires self-awareness of discrepancies between current leadership capacity and elements of aspirational identity. Using personal constructs psychology, this study explores evidence that doctoral education serves as a catalyst for developing authentic leader identity. Repertory grid technique was used to elicit the implicit leadership theories of students enrolled in their first and final Leadership Core courses in an interdisciplinary doctoral program. Data analysis revealed significant differences in the complexity and integration, but not differentiation of leader identity.

scholarly journals Religions and the Challenge for Social Transformation

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Eiko Hanaoka
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
True Self ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World ◽  
Peculiar Nature

In this paper I discuss the new possibility of social transformation by religion in order to save the global nihilistic situation in the contemporary world because of the modern technology which neglected human dignity in all over the world since the Industrial Revolution started from England in the latter half of the 18th Century. Such possibility by religion can be realized, in my view, by “the way of walking” on the ground of “self-awareness”, where each person realizes the great death of egoistic ego and is aware of the true self, which is common to each of all nature, which awareness then results in the faith in God as action, God who is non-substantial and has no peculiar nature of its own. Such religion could be found in the religion and the philosophy of religion advocated by A. N. Whitehead and K. Nishida.

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