Puppetry as Medicine

In Puppetry as Medicine, we work within the full realm of crafting, producing and performing with puppets.

The art of puppetry offers multi-dimensional opportunities to highlight
the many worlds that exist within our human life. Within a puppet play
storytelling, music, movement, and visual arts of colour, sculptural form,
and lighting are only some of the creative directions that I engage with to create a puppet show.

This brings us into educational, artistic, and therapeutic realms. We
learn through our ability to build living pictures that hold meaningful
relationships to our time, place, and community.

As Waldorf educator Margaret Meyerkort said of puppetry:

“It is imagination which provides the capacity to love, it is our imagination which sees the ideal in people, the intention in the imperfect human act, imagination is the threshold to the spirit of man.”

This holds importance both for the individual and the collective.

“The puppetry impulse is one of the most important art therapy impulses for the coming century. . .

The marionette play is for children an unconscious education in imaginative vision, and therefore it is an activator of the highest order of the forces of self- healing. It is an effective alternative to television and the multi-media culture of our day.” 

—Dr. Michaela Glöckler, in “The Healing Strength of Puppetry”