ABSTRACT

Art therapy's early encounter with the digital came in various forums and spaces, by being discussed as a discipline on the internet before becoming a digital clinical practice. The internet has been drawing new frontiers for clinical psychology, art therapy and, more recently, dramatherapy, as the pandemic demonstrated. Online spaces constitute one such new space of practice that many dramatherapy professionals were confronted with during the global coronavirus pandemic. Drama therapy is a beautiful, deep and resource-full practice and drama therapists from all cultures have rich and useful skills that can be drawn upon in response to the ecological crisis to respond to the mountain of feeling surrounding this subject matter. Dramatherapists who in their daily practice provide safe havens, containing and holding spaces and engage with artistic tools to imagine and create new and possible worlds, are most well equipped to provide creative spaces within which we may begin to address some of these anguishes.