My daily practice consists of giving workshops and projects at schools and cultural centers, and creating performances with various target groups. My work is always based on an issue of identity. Together with my participants, I research what identity means to us and how we can come closer together through empathy. I often do this using personal stories. Together with my participants, I investigate what identity means to us and how we can come closer together through empathy. I often do this using personal stories. For me, these have a reflective power: they evoke recognition, empathy and insight into ourselves and others. In this way, we learn to understand ourselves and the people around us better. By doing this within issues surrounding identity, these become something personal again. Shame, conflict and exclusion are transformed in this way into empathy, empowerment and visibility.
More information about my vision and practice can be found in Theater of Living Stories. In this work I describe how I research identity issues and social conflicts in my practice through reflection on personal stories. I describe this based on my research into masculinity and nationalism that I did in Belfast during my master in Education in 2024. I reflected with forty men from Belfast on their personal lives within the post-conflict and made a performance from their stories.
Researching what masculinity and gender are, plays an important role in my practice. Other issues that I have investigated in my practice in recent years are gender and sexuality, origin and integration, nationalism, queerness and climate change.