> Training > Events and CPD > Dramatherapy & Artificial Intelligence

Dramatherapy & Artificial Intelligence

Wednesday 8th April 2026
Timings: 19:00 20:00 GMT
Location: Online
This webinar introduces Dramatherapists to AI as a creative and reflective support tool, not as a replacement for embodied, relational practice
Full Description

This webinar introduces Dramatherapists to AI as a creative and reflective support tool, not as a replacement for embodied, relational practice.

 

The session aims to:

  • build digital literacy without technostress

  • explore symbolic, narrative and role-based uses of AI

 

By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

  • Understand current developments in AI relevant to dramatherapy practice, education and research

  • Critically reflect on opportunities and risks of AI in relation to embodiment, agency and therapeutic alliance

  • Identify ethically appropriate ways AI can support (not replace) dramatherapeutic processes

  • Experiment with simple AI-supported tools for narrative, role and ritual creation

 

Contents:

1.       Dramatherapy & AI: State of the Field

2.       Ethical Grounding

3.       Practical Applications

4.       Closing: From Fear to Play

 

Methodology:

The webinar integrates theoretical input with interactive discussion and guided experiential practices

Facilitator(s)

Glenda Pagnoncelli

Glenda Pagnoncelli is a pedagogist, Dramatherapist and researcher with a long-standing interest in the dialogue between dramatherapy, narrative practices and contemporary technologies.

She is one of the founders of S.P.I.P (Italian Professional Association of Dramatherapy) and is the coordinator of the first university Master’s programme in Italy (Catholic University of Milan) dedicated to the arts therapies, encompassing four specialisations: art therapy, dance movement therapy, music therapy and dramatherapy. Within the program, she teaches in the dramatherapy specialisation.

 

Glenda is a project manager and lecturer at University Politecnico di Milano, within the METID Department (Methods and Technologies for Didactic Innovation), where she works on faculty development and conducts research into the cognitive and methodological changes that artificial intelligence may bring to learning processes.