The Playback Theatre: The perspective of consciousness research

  • Wilfried Belschner
Keywords: Playbacktheatre, consciousness, everyday consciousness, presence, diagnosis of states of consciousness

Abstract

The Playbacktheatre (PBT) is a fascinating method to make it possible that the narrator of a life history and the audience may experience what till now is “unheard” and “unlived” in a biography. Which prerequisits are necessary to let this happen? For the description and explanation of these processes the model of the continuum of consciousness and the model of the differentiation of states of consciousness is introduced. According to this model the PBT-actors learn to modulate their states of consciousness (“modi of presence”) between the state of everyday consciousness and the state of resonance in which a direct experiencing of mental processes of another person is possible.

Author Biography

Wilfried Belschner

Dipl.-Psych., Dr. phil., Univ.-Prof. em. for psychology at the University of Oldenburg. *1941, discovered for himself the vision to understand psychology and its application in fields of action (e.g. psychotherapy, medicine, the shaping of public life) as an exploration of the individual experience of consciousness and its cultural forms, to explore it as "psychology of consciousness" and to make it accessible as "transcendence training". Training in clinical and health psychology, Qigong and Zen students. Recent publications: Der Sprung in die Transzendenz (2007); Research: Eine bewusstseinspsychologische Perspektive (2009); in collaboration with J. Bölts: Authentic and Mindfulness. Qigong as a method of consciousness exploration (2008). www.psychologie.uni-oldenburg.de/21615.html; www.dktp.org

Published
2009-07-30
Issue
Vol. 15 No. 1 (2009): Issue 1/2009
Section
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