Bev Hosking

BIO

Bev Hosking is interested in creating meeting places where we use telling, listening and enactment to assist us consider social and cultural questions that are important to us at this time.

Bev works in private practice as a counsellor, group worker and a trainer, educator and practitioner (TEP) in the psychodrama method. She is the Director of the Wellington Psychodrama Training Institute and is on the Board of Examiners for AANZPA (Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association). Since 1980 she has been involved with Playback Theatre in companies, as an individual practitioner training internationally and working in development projects in Asia, the Pacific and Africa.

During the last 15 years she has developed her interest and practice in using active methods to create conversations/dialogue in a community. Bev developed the foundation of this work over a number of years including 12 years with the New Zealand Playback Summer School that she led together with Christian Penny.

Bev was invited to be a participant in an International Fellowship ‘Recasting Reconciliation through Arts and Culture’ at Brandeis University. USA (2003-2004) and took part in a dialogue training programme ‘Storytelling in Conflicts’ with Dan Bar-On in Germany (2006-2008).

ARTEFACT

Playback Theatre Summer School article (March 2008), below: