Summer Conference 2025

Facilitators & Lecturers

Samantha E Adams
is a Black British woman Dramatherapist renowned for her wellbeing work supporting Artists and Creatives within London’s West End Theatre industry. Most recently on Complicité’s Mnemonic directed by Simon McBurney, and War Horse directed by Tom Morris, at the National Theatre, and Dr Semmelweis , starring Mark Rylance, who describes Samantha’s wellbeing practice as ‘the hearth of a company’. Samantha also works in community with women with experience of the criminal justice system and life-enduring mental ill health. Her interrelated lived experience and academic research interests began with a ritual performance using her Mother’s original Windrush suitcase which she describes as giving her ‘a pathway back to the source of generational trauma rooted in the Transatlantic Slave’. She has been working creatively with black and white symbolic meaning since qualifying as a Dramatherapist at the University of Roehampton, where she trained and remains a Visiting Lecturer. Samantha’s practice embodies story, archetypal portal realms, movement, song, dance, and ritual performance. Samantha was a professional actor for almost three decades before retraining as a Therapist. She is based in London though now hopes to spend more time exploring the islands of St Vincent & the Grenadines, where her parents have recently returned to having arrived from the Caribbean as part of Britain’s Windrush Generations, 1940s-1960s. Whilst stunningly lush and tropical, St Vincent’s mainland and smaller Grenadine islands, exists alongside the ever present threat of volcanic eruption, hurricane, and climate change.

Being with Black: Windrush suitcase performance and Dramatherapy to meet with trauma, and dialogues about racism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Dr. Ditty Dokter UKCP, HCPC, BADth
was course leader MA Dramatherapy, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge until 2016 and continues to offer therapy, teaching and clinical supervision in private practice. She has held clinical, research and teaching posts with the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough and Hertfordshire partnership NHS Foundation trusts; Hertfordshire and Roehampton Universities, Codarts University of Applied Arts and the KENVAK arts therapies research centre (Netherlands) as well as working in the tertiary sector to advocate with Disabled clients and refugees. She has co-facilitated the development of Intercultural Competency Guidelines with the BADth Equality and Diversity committee and her research focusses on intercultural practice. She has published extensively; her most recent publication is Intercultural dramatherapy (2023) co-authored with Nisha Sajnani. Over the last decade Ditty has undertaken arts-based research into dramatherapist selfcare through autobiographical performance (Dokter 2021, 2023) in the UK.

Hans-Peter Hufenus
is a pioneer in the field of nature-oriented education and social work and has had a lasting influence on the field of experiential education and nature therapy since the founding of the Wilderness School 40 years ago. With his books Outdoor Guide and Wagnisse des Lernens, he has supported and developed further training in this field. Today he is a mentor and lecturer in nature phenomenology and psychological archaeology and mythology and runs the Sympoi Institute together with Habiba Kreszmeier. He is committed to egalitarian forms of coexistence and specializes in the dialogue between people and the elemental world. He volunteers as “Alabe”, the guardian and teaching drummer of trance traditions.

Astrid Habiba Kreszmeier
Systemic psychotherapist and teaching therapist in constellation work, supervisor, counselor and certified curative educator. Her research and work focuses on nature therapy and ecosystemic approaches in education, counseling and therapy. She is the author of several books, including Systemische Naturtherapie or Natur Dialoge published by Carl-Auer Verlag, and is considered in the German-speaking world a pioneer of psychotherapy and counseling that focuses on forms of relationships between human and the (other than human) world. She is thedirector of the Sympoi Institute in Switzerland and teaches ecosystemic counseling and constellation work internationally in lectures and as a podcaster @sympoietics. On a voluntary basis, she is responsible for the Terra Sagrada terreiro community, which offers ritual and healing spaces based on Orixá traditions.

Dr. Simone Klees
Sociologist, systemoriented dramatherapist, further trainings in acting at Chekhov Studio Berlin and embodiment work/constellation according to Siegfried Essen. Simone Klees was Professor of Creative Arts Therapies and Dramatherapy at Medical School Hamburg from 2022-2025. Since 2011 she has been working as a dramatherapist and supervisor in various fields of work (clinical, outpatient, social, social therapy). Simone Klees completed her doctorate on the reconstruction of experience in play in dramatherapy at the Berlin University of the Arts and was a substitute professor for dramatherapy at the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Sciences from 2018-2020.

Ingrid Lutz
Leading trainer and teaching supervisor of the 4-year drama therapy training courses at the Institut für Theatertherapie in cooperation with the Catholic University of Applied Social Sciences in Berlin, head of the training department at the Institut für Theatertherapie, former professor of dramatherapy at the HfWU Nürtingen. 3-year additional training in transpersonal therapy. For 20 years, focus on working with traumatized people, several drama therapy projects and publications on the subject, since 2019 trainer of the ITT training series ‘Working with Trauma in Dramatherapy’.

Dr. Angelo Miramonti
is a professor of Community Theatre at the Fine Arts University in Cali (Colombia), a lecturer of Trauma and Psychosocial Support at the University of Würzburg-Schweinfurt (Germany) and a registered drama therapist in Italy. He founded the “Arts for Reconciliation” programme in Colombia, a research initiative investigating the use of theatre with people affected by armed conflicts. Angelo uses theatre, poetry, mythology, dance and rituals to conduct groups of former combatants and people displaced by armed conflicts and natural disasters. He has been working in the demobilization of child soldiers in Uganda and Congo with two NGOs. He is also a medical anthropologist conducting research on spirit possession in Senegal. He authored three facilitation manuals on the use of drama for community dialogue, an ethnography on spirit possession in Senegal and several academic articles on theatre in peacebuilding.
His books: https://www.amazon.it/stores/author/B0B23G3S91/allbooks
His academic publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angelo-Miramonti

Dr. Amani Musa
is an experienced drama therapist with 16 years of practice, focusing on advancing drama and arts-based therapy, particularly within Arab society in Israel. As Chair of the Drama Therapy Division and a founding member of the Arab Society Committee in YAHAT (Creative & Expressive Arts Therapies Association in Israel), she strives to expand her influence and skills in the field. She work within Arab educational frameworks, primarily in special education, coordinating arts therapy and supervising therapists and lecture at Tel Chai Academic College, and emphasizes bridging cultural gaps between Western psychology and Arab values to provide effective therapeutic solutions. She leads workshops to enhance communication, equip therapists with tools for working with children, and reduce violence in education. As a Playback Theatre facilitator and performer, she uses theatre to foster social dialogue and co-founded the bilingual group “Here and Now,” uniting Arab and Jewish communities through creativity amidst ongoing conflict.

Susana Pendzik, MA., PhD., RDT
Associate Professor and Former Head of the Drama Therapy Graduate Program at Tel Hai College (Israel), also lectures at the Theatre Studies Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Swiss Dramatherapy Institute, the Dramatherapy Diploma at the University of Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina), as well as in other institutions of higher education worldwide. Theatre director and researcher, Susana is a prolific writer, authoring numerous articles and book chapters, a book on Action Techniques for Group Work with Battered women (1999) [Spanish and German]; co-editedAssessment in drama therapy (2012), and The self in performance: Autobiographical, self-revelatory, and autoethnographic forms of therapeutic theatre (2016), and co-authored Dramaterapia: Un enfoque creativo para el trabajo terapéutico (2018) [Spanish]. She is currently coeditor of the Dramatherapy Journal (the journal of the British Association of Dramatherapists https://www.intellectbooks.com/dramatherapy ). She is a supervisor and has a private practice.

Dr. Ralf Peters
is an artist working in the fields of voice art, performance art and conceptual art. He is a recognized teacher of the Roy Hart Center, and in his own approach under the name stimmfeld, he works in the tradition of the voice artist Roy Hart and his teacher Alfred Wolfsohn. Peters holds a doctorate in philosophy, and m any of his projects have a long term and research character and sometimes result in the publication of books on the subjects of voice, art and life. In 2024, he initiated a research project entitled “vocal ecotism”, which aims to explore the possibilities of “vocal art in a damaged world”.
stimmfeld.de  hoerfeld.de
http://stimmfeld.de/vocalecotism.html

Online seminar

Dr. med. Amma Yeboah
is a psychodynamic supervisor and specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy with a focus on gender-sensitive psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care. As a lecturer, she focuses on intersectional perspectives in medicine and psychotherapy. She studied human medicine at the Free University of Berlin, completed training as a critical whiteness and empowerment trainer at Phoenix e.V., obtained her doctorate at Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin and completed certification in psychodynamic supervision and coaching at inscape international in Cologne. Amma Yeboah is a member of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN), the German Society for Supervision and Coaching (DGSv) and the Scientific Society for Arts Therapies (WFKT).
https://amma-yeboah.de

Resonanz lab:

Johanna Benz
founded Graphicrecording.cool with Tiziana Beck in 2013. The two have been working closely together since their studies at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. The duo, based in Leipzig, Berlin and Paris, develop individual graphic recording formats for conferences, workshops, symposia and performative events. Through the live drawing process, they illustrate and comment on facts, ideas, statements and subjective images with the aim of creating new connections between visual and applied art, science, research and education.
www.graphicrecording.cool