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Volume 46, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0263-0672
  • E-ISSN: 2157-1430
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Abstract

This reflection has been adapted from a keynote speech pronounced at the in collaboration with World Alliance of Dramatherapy, on the theme ‘Human & Nature in Dramatherapy’, which took place in Rīga, Latvia, in May 2025. It looks at the current state of affairs in the world and wonders about dramatherapy’s function in it. Drawing on Eugenio Barba’s notion of the ‘floating island’, the reflection suggests an analogy between dramatherapy and a floating island, as a resource that can present an alternative in the chaotic environment of the world.

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Keyword(s): AI; environmental empathy; evidence-based; floating islands; holistic approaches; Indigenous knowledge; organic and inorganic entities; poetic evidence

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