ABSTRACT
This chapter uses a reflective practitioner account of a process drama workshop to consider the potential for social change through aesthetic engagement. The drama uses the pretext of a picture book which tells the story of a family displaced by war and seeking refuge. Using a range of dramatic conventions participants engage emotionally and cognitively with the fictional lives of refugees. The chapter contextualises the workshop within a growing international antipathy to the plight of refuges and the rise of aggressive and nationalist white supremacy movements across much of the world. Central to the argument of the chapter is that process drama much always be motivated by hope.
