We Are Alive
Theatr Cynefin delivered a ‘Connecting Matter Energy and Meaning’ training hosted by NGO Sus Inima in Sibiu Romania this April. THe training was part of their SIPRI initiative, helping people sheltering from the war in Ukraine.
Theatr Cynefin delivered a ‘Connecting Matter, Energy and Meaning’ training hosted by NGO Sus Inima in Sibiu, Romania this April. The training was part of their SIPRI initiative, helping people sheltering from the war in Ukraine.
The site of the slt performance created is a 14th century Church and adjacent building, that is currently housing a school for Ukrainian children. We worked with facilitators and teachers to create a Labyrinth from which emerged Easter themes and the defiance and joy of being alive.
Coming to Our Senses
In spring 2023 Theatr Cynefin will be piloting a new and innovative mindfulness curriculum with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board staff.
In spring 2023 Theatr Cynefin will be piloting a new and innovative mindfulness curriculum with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board staff. Called Coming to Our Senses, the 8 week course will utilise exercises developed to train Sensory Labyrinth Theatre performers in order to create an immersive learning experience.
We believe mindfulness can be taught effectively through powerful creative group processes such as the ones used in The Art of Looking at Ourselves. We have been trialling this approach over the last 4 years, most recently with Ukrainian teachers displaced by the war.
The course will also involve the Journaling for Flow methodology developed by Sarah Gregg so that participants can not only chart their progress through the course, but learn a way of starting and ending their day in a way that optimises access to flow states.
We are very grateful for the support of both Aneurin Bevan Health Board Trust for their…um, trust in partnering with us on the project and to Arts Council Wales, Fresh Arts and Health Fund for supporting the project.
Towards a Politics of Flow: Podcast with ImaginAction
This is a conversation between Cynefin director Iwan Brioc and Uri Noy-Meir from ImaginAction that took place earlier in the year. ImaginAction is a network of socially engaged practitioners in the arts and has many initiatives in which to get involved.
Cortiqualia
Some years ago now Theatr Cynefin collaborated with Pontio and University Wales Bangor Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Guillaume Thierry to create with Psychology Students an immersive theatre performance called Cerebellium. The project ran for three years and was a transformative experience for many audience members.
Since then Guillaume and Iwan have had various conversations as to how to follow up on the findings of this performance experiment in light of new evidence in the field. Here’s a clip of a conversation that highlights perhaps the relevance and urgency of such a project.
Locating sensory labyrinth theatre within immersive theatres' history
Congratulations Teri Howson, for the publication of this paper on slt in the journal - Studies in Theatre and Performance.
It’s been many years in the making and it’s very good news that Theatr Cynefin’s work is finally starting to register in academia.
Playing with the Present
From September 2019 and onwards Theatr Cynefin will be developing a Sensory Labyrinth Theatre event with Ebbw Fawr Community Learning Centre. Our Creative Partnership funded by the Creative Learning initiative of Arts Council Wales will focus on the neuroscience of well-being.
We will make regular posts over the period about the progress of the project.
