The Drama Triangle makes sense of repeated patterns we get into with other people where we become caught up in the role of either Rescuer, Persecutor, or Victim.
Workshop Description
The Drama Triangle makes sense of repeated patterns we get into with other people where we become caught up in the role of either Rescuer, Persecutor, or Victim. In this workshop we will look at how to use The Drama Triangle in the therapy room. How can it help clients make sense and move out of problematic patterns? We’ll also look at a key development of the theory, The Winner’s Triangle.
Like any powerful tool, The Drama Triangle, can be harmful as well as helpful. So, we will also explore how labels such as Victim, Persecutor, or Rescuer can be used – sometimes unwittingly – to box people in or to silence and oppress them.
In the workshop participants will:
- be introduced to the Drama Triangle and The Winner’s Triangle
- learn some practical ways of using the triangles with clients
- explore some connections with the Transactional Analysis concept of “discounting” and it’s complement “accounting”
- discuss risks that come with the use of The Drama Triangle and its language of Victim, Rescuer, and Persecutor
The workshop will mix teaching with a breakout session for participants to explore their reactions to the ideas and try them out in some short exercises.
No prior knowledge of The Drama Triangle will be assumed.
Course Content
Presenter
Matthew Elton, DPhil, PG Dip (TA Counselling), BACP Registered
Matthew Elton is a psychotherapist based in Edinburgh and has been in private practice since 2005. He works with a wide range of clients and has a special interest in writers and artists. His formative training was in Transactional Analysis and he has since developed a strong interest in Narrative Therapy. Matthew regularly delivers talks and workshops in Scotland and across the UK on therapy practice and related matters.
This year he published Talking It Better: From Insight to Change in the Therapy Room (PCCS, 2021).
Before becoming fulltime as a practitioner, Matthew was an academic working on the philosophy of mind at the University of Stirling, then a manager in the charity sector. He is the author of a well-received volume on the philosopher Daniel Dennett for Polity’s Key Contemporary Thinkers series, published in 2003.
This workshop in a collaboration between the Link Centre and Onlinevents
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