ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an opportunity 103 for healthcare practitioners to express themselves creatively, by involving them directly as active participants in drama, as actors, directors and audience. The 'process of working' involves both the way the healthcare educators respond to the experience itself, in which they develop a dramatic 'eye' for things, and the honing of dramatic skills. The circle acts as a crucible in which spontaneous play bursts briefly into life, but also in which participants begin to ingest, through practice, a small sense of dramatic structure and technical discipline, and to awaken the body to the possibilities of movement and voice. Invariably people are surprised by how accurately their sculpture partners play back their feelings and thoughts when they are brought to life. Any intervention on the part of the listener will alter what is then said, and is often more about the listeners listening for a chance to tell their own stories.
