Delivered through our groundbreaking 90-minute drama-based session, participants are encouraged and supported to be open about their fears, anxieties, hopes and dreams, regarding their pending transition to senior school. This helps them to recognise when they may be experiencing thoughts and feelings that could escalate into mental ill-health.

 

The projects ensemble approach to learning allows students to understand the collective nature of their anxieties and that what they are experiencing is a common feeling amongst all, therefore reducing the feelings of loneliness and despair that can often accompany anxiety.

 

The course takes students back 2.5 million years to the time of the first humans as Hunter-Gatherers. Facing life endangering threats every day, our brains were constantly in Threat Mode, endlessly triggering the Fight, Flight or Freeze response to keep us alive.

 

Through various drama games, students are taught to understand that whilst our surroundings may have changed, our brains are still constantly searching for threats, triggering the archaic Fight, Flight or Freeze response to what we perceive as threats.