The Creative Potential of Failure: Pedagogy Workshop with Gozde Atalay Kokkoris
We strongly recommend the Pedagogy Workshop “The Creative Potential of Failure” with the excellent Gozde Atalay Kokkoris at our wonderful sister project Sfendami.
If we are not allowed to make mistakes, we will never discover our creative potential and our exceptional abilities.
Total hours: 16
Program:
Friday 14/3: 18.00-22.00
Saturday 15/3: 10.00-16.30
Sunday16/3: 10.00-16.30
Participation fee: 155 euros
Participation applications:
2661040757
6971943751
In this workshop we will try to redefine personal failure and realize the creative potential it entails.
We will develop the ability to accept failure and the completely unknown as vital elements of the creative process.
Then, we can use this experience as a tool in the teaching environment.
Games, improvisation, movement, painting, dramatized storytelling and creative singing are some of the tools we will use to awaken the playful mood and free ourselves from fears and criticism.
Teachers will thus have the opportunity to use these practical tools in the classroom.
This workshop follows the principles of Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed and the methods of Creative Drama.
We have all been students and shaped by education.
Everyone has a story to remember from their school years. Mostly a bitter one!
A story of failure or pressure to succeed.
But what is failure?
And can it have a positive effect?
We have stigmatized failure!!
Our education system has demonized mistakes and put extreme pressure on students to achieve high levels of academic success, negating the joys of learning and making children stressed and depressed.
This workshop is interested in observing failure from a different perspective.
It challenges the prevailing approach. A one-size-fits-all educational system that squanders children’s qualities and results in the loss of individuality/personality.
If children are not allowed to make mistakes, they will never discover their creative potential and extraordinary abilities.
It is not suggested that we encourage students to make mistakes just to feel good or that ‘making mistakes is the same as being creative.’
What is suggested is that we focus on the process rather than the outcome.
*The workshop is aimed at educators, future educators and parents who are interested in exploring new paths and developing a creative teaching process as well as their own creative process.
Gozde Atalay Kokkoris
gozde-atalay.com
She graduated from the Department of Theatre and Dramaturgy of Istanbul University in 2004.
She has been actively involved in acting since 2000 and has also participated in the “İstanbul Tıyatro Araştırmaları Topluluğu” Theatre Group for 4 years. At the same time, she also worked as a Creative Drama teacher after her graduation.
Her basic studies in physical theatre and especially in the neutral mask and theatrical clown took place initially in Madrid at “Gabriel Chame and Hernan Gene ESTUDIOS TEATRALES” and later in Berlin with Thomas Prattki in the LISPA (London International School of Performing Arts) program.
She participated and completed the new professional development program (IMPP) of LISPA in Berlin with a scholarship from the institution itself.
She has also attended numerous short or long-term seminars with teachers such as Mario Gonzalez, (teacher in Conservatoire National Superieur D’Art Dramatique in Paris), Giovanni Fusetti, (founder of Helicos International Theater School in Italy), Patrick Van Den Boom (teacher of De Goudse Clown School of the Netherlands).
In parallel with her studies in physical theatre, she also came into contact with the world of circus and traditional yoga. In 2011 she taught at the social circus school for children “Cabuwazi” in Berlin.
Ιn 2012 she completed her training as a yoga teacher at Yoga Vidya Gurukul in India.
As a performer she participated in the show “No Way Out” which recently premiered at Ballhaus Ost 2018 Berlin. She also participated in the 2nd Pocket Festival of Athens 2017 with the show “Upside Down” Nasreddin Hodja Tales, in the Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2014 in the show “A Quiet Voice”, in the ZirCouplet-Variete shows 2012 & 2013 in Berlin, in a street show for the Carnival of Cultures Festival 2012 in Berlin as well as in a series of other shows. Since 2009, σhe has been living and working in various countries, taking part in international programs, acting in performances, directing and teaching.