Paraskevas Stamatios
Working with the general population, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and clients experiencing grief and bereavement.
Group Sessions (Private Practice & Kallitexnio Social Cooperative Enterprise)
Working with the general population, as well as with groups at the Day Center “IKELOS” for individuals who have received psychiatric diagnoses (including psychosis, bipolar disorder, and depression)
A dramatherapy workshop centered on the body and theatre as responses to institutionalized, authoritarian discourse. The workshop fosters the creation of personal narratives of resistance and survival by transforming news reports, scientific texts, and theatrical material into garments. It incorporates the use of living mannequins in live puppetry performance.
(Touring workshop / First presentation: 3rd Dramatherapy Conference of the Panhellenic Professional Association of Dramatherapists)
Open Process: “Out of Place & Time”
A series of workshops, discussions, and community-based actions focused on solidarity, relief, and reconnection within the community. The work draws on the Theatre of the Oppressed methodology developed by Augusto Boal, documentary theatre practices, and exploratory dramatization (Kallitexnio Social Cooperative Enterprise).
Stamatios Paraskevas studied and graduated from the Department of Psychology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens.
He completed his training at the Institute of Dramatherapy “AION” in Athens.
He has received additional training in the Affirmative Approach in Counselling with LGBTQIA+ individuals at ORLANDO LGBT, as well as in Cognitive–Behavioral Drama at the Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Drama.
Having completed numerous postgraduate seminars, he works with theatre and dramatherapy groups (Kallitexnio Social Cooperative Enterprise, Day Center “IKELOS”, CPS-arts) and has participated in conferences and professional events focusing on mental health and the arts.
He is actively engaged in collaborative initiatives, groups, and communities that promote active expression, creativity, and empowerment within Civil Society.