Living Arts Counseling Center

Date: April 10th 
Time: 9:30a.m. – 5:00p.m.
Venue: 926 Dwight Way, Suite 10A, Berkeley
Cost: $70 (Limited partial scholarships available)

Playback Theatre is an interactive theatre approach used in over 50 countries as a tool for education, dialogue, conflict transformation and community building. 

In a Playback Theatre performance, audience members share thoughts, feelings, memories and personal stories and watch as a team of actors transform these experiences into improvised theater pieces using movement, ritual, music and spoken word.  

In this 1-day introductory workshop, participants will learn and practice the basic improvisational performance structures involved in the playback theatre process.  Participants will also gain the opportunity to develop creativity, playfulness, empathy and the capacity for deep listening and teamwork.  No prior acting experience is required.

About the Facilitator: Ben Rivers, M.A. is a drama therapist, group facilitator and educator with extensive experience using applied theatre for personal transformation and social change.  Ben holds a Masters in Counseling Psychology and is a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern at The Living Arts Counseling Center, supervised by Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT, MFC# 28789. For more information please visit www.BenRiversTherapy.com   

Places are limited!  Register now by calling Ben on 415-395-6328 or email benrivers@livingartscenter.org