Crossing the threshold … and crisscrossing, and crisscrossing …: Embodiment and varielation in Developmental Transformations and yoga

How does Developmental Transformations (DvT) facilitate growth and change? This article illuminates the process of embodied transformation through repetition, varielation and dimensionalization (techniques in DvT). The author examines these elements in operation within two types of embodied experiences: DvT and yoga. Both theory and the author’s personal experience provide windows into the intersection of these embodied practices as well as elucidating the inner mechanisms of change.

Reclaiming the body and restoring a bodily self in drama therapy: A case study of sensory-focused Trauma-Centred Developmental Transformations for survivors of father‐daughter incest

Survivors of father‐daughter incest often suffer from complex trauma and sensory insensitivity, making it difficult to decipher the sensations in the body and experience body ownership, self-location and agency. This case study illustrates how sensory focused, Trauma-Centred Developmental Transformations can help restore or develop a bodily self, desensitize fear-based schemas, revise deeply buried beliefs and extend repertoire.

T is for territory: Gathering data about human experience in Developmental Transformations and advancing technologies

This article makes a comparison between developing technologies in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and a practice used by drama therapists called Developmental Transformations (DvT). Both technologies gather granular data on human bodies; however, AI does so in the virtual realm, whereas DvT necessitates a physical encounter. As a contribution to theory, this article raises questions about whether interactions with technological interfaces are actual, virtual or somewhere in-between, and about where our bodies intersect in that dimensional landscape. Is it possible for practitioners of drama therapy, specifically DvT, to be in conversation with the growing dominance of technologies operated through AI, and where do the boundaries of human territory fit in relation to both? The relationship between these two approaches to data gathering are explored through the use of arts-based research in the form of collage. Possible implications for future practice as research are considered.

Child therapist’s play: Reconsidering the developmental appropriateness of Developmental Transformations

Developmental Transformations (DvT) has been presented as a developmentally appropriate therapy approach for children. This conceptual article explores the foundational elements of DvT practice in relation to children’s specific needs in therapy. The article argues for a heightened ethical responsibility to apply core concepts such as encounter, embodiment, mutuality and reversibility in the context of children’s developmental processes, and to acknowledge the power differentials between child clients and adult therapists.

Developmental Transformations over video chat: An exploration of presence in the therapeutic relationship

This study examined how the phenomenon of presence in the therapeutic relationship shifts when participating in therapy online as opposed to in person. A duoethnographic study was conducted in which the researcher and another drama therapist engaged in two Developmental Transformations sessions, one face-to-face and one via video chat, and wrote about their subjective experiences of presence during each session. From these data, themes arose that confirmed the complexity of presence and suggested presence is further complicated during virtual interactions.

Czy pedagogika polska ma swoje wielkie pytnia?

The sources of the great questions of Polish pedagogy originate in the canon of eminent pedagogues of the interwar period, in the development blocks of our collective consciousness, in the dynamic cultural and developmental transformations on a global scale, and in the strong connections of pedagogy with its fundamental sciences.