Embodiment Is Reconnection: My First Applied Theatre Workshop in Taiwan

What if the thing you’re feeling stuck on... doesn’t need more thinking, but more embodiment? 🎭

Yesterday I had the joy of delivering my very first applied theatre workshop in Taiwan! It was a creative drama based workshop about reflecting on the past year and looking forward towards the new year, right after the lunar new year holiday. I had run this workshop in Nanjing before, where the response was powerful. Bringing it to Taiwan felt like a quiet experiment. Would it resonate the same way?

It did.

We began with shy smiles. Tired, post-holiday energy. A little guarded. A little unsure.

Two hours later?

Laughter. Movement. Reflection. Strangers becoming collaborators.

One participant came up to me afterwards and said that during the workshop, she found clarity around something she’d been emotionally stuck on for a long time. Not because we “talked it through,” but because she experienced it differently, in her emotions in her body.

Another shared that she almost didn’t come. She’s shy, she said. She thought it would be lecture-style. Instead, she made new friends and felt social in a way she hasn’t in a long time.

#Drama and #play aren’t extras. They aren’t just for children. They’re not “nice to have.”

They reconnect us to our bodies.

To imagination.

To creativity.

To the parts of ourselves that get buried under roles, expectations, productivity.

When we shift from talking about life to experiencing it through embodied practice, something moves. And when something moves, change usually follows.

Grateful to bring this work to Taiwan. And grateful to the brave humans who showed up fully!

(And a huge thank you to Chiao Chan for the connection and support, excited for your book launch next month! 📚✨)

More to come.

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