Puppetry in Therapeutic Settings: Engaging Children, Adolescents and Adults
Fri, Apr 11
|Virtual
This free PIET Zoom with Paul Greggs will be an interactive session exploring his decades of experience using puppetry in his counseling practice. He will show you tons of tricks and techniques and answer your questions. RSVP to get your zoom link.
Time & Location
Apr 11, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Virtual
About the event
Puppetry in Education and Therapy
Since the founding of Puppeteers of America the organization has demonstrated a deep commitment to puppetry in education.
Dr. Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin, who served as president of PofA, began teaching puppetry at Ohio State University in 1935. Through its publications, festival workshops, consultants, and committees PofA shares information and encourages puppetry in education. Puppetry is an excellent tool for communication. We, as puppeteers, educators, and therapists can present concepts and facts, stories and feelings in diverse settings including; classrooms- from pre-school to high school, day care centers, libraries, hospitals, camps, museums, colleges, community centers, churches and senior centers. We can make puppetry accessible to children, teens and adults and help them develop the skills and experience to express their own feelings and ideas, We can encourage anyone who picks up a puppet to bring an “animated object’ to life to have fun, convey information or…