articles in media
UK PUBLISHED ARTICLES
These published articles can be read in a web page (easier to read) by clicking on the title. Or if you prefer to see the article as published in each magazine (where available), click on the download button. If you wish to read these in the PDF version but need the software, please click here to go to the Adobe website and the click on Adobe Reader on the left hand side of the page to download it.
Freeing the Firebird – freeing the creative spirit through drama click here for the article in a web page
Story is a powerful way of facilitating understanding of our deeper impulses. Claire explores how working through the Russian fairy tale of The Firebird serves as a metaphor for expressing the creative spirit enabling individuals to free their inner firebird, liberating them to new levels of creativity and self expression.
(Kindred Spirit March 2006) Download the pdf
Express Yourself – and overcome shyness click here for the article in a web page
Once painfully shy, Claire Schrader has devised a unique creative approach working through voice, movement, drama, music and ritual through which to unleash your trapped and suppressed power…
(Connections Magazine Dec 2004)Download the pdf
Marrying Theatre through Personal Transformation click here for the article in a web page
The healing power of drama, Doctor Theatre, and the beneficial effect of drama on emotional and physical health and well-being.
(Positive Health Magazine March 2005) Download
The Power of Personal Ritual – a rehearsal for life click here for the article in a web page
How working with ritual and Ritual Theatre can achieve profound healing and transformation of intractable situations, trauma and pain with ease and grace.
(Connections Magazine Aug 2001) Download the pdf
Brief Encounter – transforming creative blocks. click here for the article in a web page
A published article exploring the process of working “briefly” (a series of 6-10 sessions) with two individual clients who were experiencing creative blocks, enabling them to heal and resolve the deep seated issues that were hampering their creative output. One of these was a Jewish woman who as a child was hidden under a table in Poland during WW2.
(Counselling News March 1999) Download the pdf
Being Creative – tools for creativity click here for the article in a web page
Creativity at one time was a province of a few special gifted and often privileged individuals. But now we are told we all are creative – or at least have the potential to be creative. We all have the same seeds of creativity that these greats have…
(Alternative Arts 1998) Download the pdf
Doubletake
Althea Hayton’s article written for the Making Moves newsletter (see personal stories) about healing the negative aspects of being a wombtwin survivor. See Personal Stories
(In Balance magazine 2003 and 2011) Download the pdf
US PUBLISHED ARTICLES
Making a Breakthrough
Are you wanting a breakthrough in your life but feeling stuck or powerless to make a change? This could be a work, home or relationship situation, or something you want to change in yourself. Or do you just simply want to take your next step in your creative journey or move to the next level of Breakthrough?
(Open Exchange Magazine Jan 2009)
Are Monsters playing havoc with your relationships?
How to know if monsters are playing havoc in your relationships? Are you fighting with your partner or are the two of you pulling in different directions? Is there a lot of emotion and drama that never seems to get resolved, or is jealousy/stress getting in the way of the love that is between you? Or are you drifting away from each other because you don’t want to face what is difficult in your connection. Then you can be sure a monster is responsible for the mayhem….
(Open Exchange Magazine April 2009)
Overcoming Shyness through Drama
Drama is potent because enables us to celebrate the rich tapestry of human experience in all its complexity, which includes an appreciation of all it is to be human. And curiously enough for the people whose lives were so full of drama and chaos that they somewhat resembled a soap opera, instead of attracting more drama they began to experience less and their lives became more whole and balanced.
(Open Exchange Magazine October 2008)
