NISDA Conference 2011 Bedales School

Accrete Training was recently was invited to Bedales School where the National Independent Schools Drama Association conference 2011 was being held on June 4th.  Ali Campbell was invited to run a 'BOAL' workshop.

The title of his workshop was X-RAY EYES

EMBODIED EMOTIONS

X-Ray Eyes is a child-led workshop template, co-devised with children from Osmani Primary School, Whitechapel as the centrepiece of a major Arts and Humanities  Research Council project, Embodied Emotions.  Today’s practical demonstration will take you through a sequence of exercises synthesized from Boals’ Image Theatre and the movement work of Clare Whistler, a dancer and choreographer with whom Ali has collaborated for 15 years. 

X-Ray Eyes aims to set up a culture of Emotional Literacy within the ordinary, workaday timetable of every school, complementing Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) without pre-deciding what content young people might bring to a place we have called The Centre:  a safe space for every school where what cannot be expressed in words may be released in image and movement.

The workshop will aim to give a taste of the system.  You will not be required to be anyone but yourself. Time permitting Ali will show a short documentary about what happened when the whole school taught itself X- Ray Eyes on 1^st April 2010.

ACCRETE TRAINING PARTNERSHPS

Observing today’s session is Joanna Bremner, an education and training adviser and one of the co-directors with Ali of Accrete. We are piloting a bespoke portfolio of programmes for schools and institutions, applying a participatory, arts-based approach to a broad range of issues and challenges facing organisations in the public, private and third sectors.  Accrete will be managing the roll-out of X-Ray Eyes to schools and LEAs seeking effective and empowering ways to impart a culture of emotional literacy throughout whole schools and school clusters.

Videos link to the Embodied Emotions project is:
http://loudminority.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=50&Itemid=120