Workshop: The Art of Creative Inquiry

Warren Linds, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. His area of expertise is applying Forum Theatre techniques to address issues of social justice. He is Member of the research team in the Canadian Institutes for Health Research funded project Applied Arts with Health, which works on developing health decision-making with Aboriginal youth in southern Saskatchewan, Canada. He is Co-editor of Playing in a House of Mirrors: Applied Theatre as Reflective Process (Sense Publishers, 2015), Emancipatory practices: Adult/youth engagement for social and environmental justice (Sense Publishers, 2010), and Unfolding bodymind: Exploring possibility through education (Holistic Education Publishers, 2004).Tony Gee (M.A.in Applied Drama) is Artistic Director of Creation Myth Puppets. He has founded and led several companies including The Moveable Feast Workshop Co. His area of expertise is applying puppet theatre and cross art form techniques to creating original participatory workshop events in diverse settings including professional development for participatory artists. Tony has toured his work nationally in the UK and internationally working with many thousands of young people and countless educational settings since 1984. He is a playwright and author. His publications include Workshop – A Moveable Feast (Dartington College of Arts 2003). He contributed an afterword for Playing in a House of Mirrors: Applied Theatre as Reflective Process (Sense Publishers, 2015). Tony taught Workshop Skills at Dartington College of Arts and has been a guest lecturer on Workshop at Exeter University, Concordia University, Birmingham University and The Royal College of Arts.

• Managing Editor’s introduction.- Prologue.- What is workshop?- Devising workshop – The dance of potentials.- The arc of workshop.- Recovery.