Covid has put the kibosh on the performing arts, but Ben Ballin and Richard Holmes of The Big Brum Theatre-in-Education company have reimagined this experience online for schools. They talk to me today about the challenges of performing their first monodrama about lockdown life, and how this created opportunities to explore an opening up of the self for children and teachers, which has helped teachers to know, hear, and listen to their student's feelings of displacement, recovery, and grief in profoundly unexpected ways.How can we connect with ourselves first, and be social in a world that is making it difficult for us to be our natural human self? During this conversation we explored why drama, and story are the tools teachers can use to safely, and democratically begin to understand, and make sense of the individual, and shared experiences of their children, and themselves.As well as his work as an Educationalist for Big Brum, Ben is a consultant to the Geographical Association and leads primary geography networks for Shropshire, Staffordshire and the London Borough of Havering. He is a Fellow of the National Association for Environmental Education.Richard Holmes joined Big Brum Theatre in Education Company in 1999, first as an actor-teacher, and director of Big Brum’s Youth Theatre. He specialises in working with young people of all ages and abilities, and was appointed Artistic Director of Big Brum in 2017.www.bigbrum.org.ukTwitter @Big_BrumInstagram @bigbrumtieYour podcast host is Amanda Seyderhelm who teaches Schools and organisations how to talk to children about bereavement, loss, and change through a therapeutic storytelling programme. She is a certified play therapist, and author of the picture book for bereaved children, Isaac and the Red Jumper, and the professional guide Helping Children Cope with Loss and Change published by Routledge.Download Amanda's free guide 7 Steps to help Teachers help Children with Grief, Loss and Changewww.amandaseyderhelm.comTwitter @The KidDecoderLinked In @amandaseyderhelmInstagram @amandaseyderhelm1

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