Praetorian Non-Profit Art and Health Consulting

“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.”


Well-being management

Organizational development

Ethical and effective leadership

Taming Our Trauma

Vision:

Taming Our Trauma is an art-science fusion model, with the aim to develop special communication structures 
and organizational culture by integrating the principles of trauma-informed organizations and trauma-informed care

into performing arts.



Mission:


Taming Our Trauma aspires to respond to the most urgent topics of the dance profession today, such as the need for well-being management, inclusive, tolerant environments, and solution-oriented processes.



Special focus:


Rehabilitating the art of the artists, dealing with traumas experienced during the pandemic and lockdown, as well as traumas encountered throughout the professional or personal life

SCIENTIFIC IMPUT

Taming our Trauma involves a clinical psychologist, a psychotherapist, a psychologist, and a neuroscientist/leadership coach.


They provide scientific knowledge, tools, and methods for the artists ,enabling them to embrace their own personal, professional, or cultural traumas, empowering the development of useful, beneficial and constructive habits.

CREATIVE PROCESS

Parallel to the lectures, presentations, individual coachings, trauma informed group coachings and consultations, a choreographic creation process is being conducted by Andreas Heise. The accumulated knowledge, the findings, experiences, and regular feedback are processed also artistically, and are incorporated in the dance creation through newly developed embodiment and non-verbal choreographic instruments.

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION

The intertwined activities related to mental health, communication and performing arts are being documented by photo- and videographer Pippa Samaya, the artists themselves and several researchers. The documentation is also being channelled back to the group coachings and to the choreographic events to foster creativity by generating further questions, encouraging answers in the experimental exploration.


Two movies are being made. A dance movie with documentary elements by Pippa Samaya and one documentary movie with dance film elements by Gabriella Bácskai and Lajos Danyi.

Trauma-informed approach for dance organizations

Beginnings of a model – Interview with Andreas Heise, choreograpic leader of the project Taming Our Trauma

“I am good in what I am doing”

Mind-Centering, Empowerment, and Motivation with Thomas Rohe

Having a CHOICE – Trauma-informed approach in theater

Short interview with István Simon, founder and CEO of Praetorian Art and Health

Our Team

Kristin Mente

Dance Artist

Pedro Henrique Ferreira

Dance Artist

Aya Sone

Dance Artist

Tomas Rohe

Dance Artist

Boglárka Simon-Hatala

Scientific Leader

Lilla Gerlinger

Clinical Psychologist

Seema Prakash

Counsellor / Psychologist

Terry Hyde

Counsellor and Psychotherapist

Andreas Heise

Choreographic Leader

Isolde Matkey

Manager

Katja Solbrig

Manager

István Simon

Project Leader

Taming Our Trauma is a model project, a co-production of Praetorian Non-Profit Art and Health Consulting and Tristan Productions

Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETZ – STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative: aid program for dance.