26isfam002 10.3205/26isfam002 urn:nbn:de:0183-26isfam0028 Meeting Abstract Jahn Jahn Anne-Kristin AK

The Way of the Fool

author German Medical Science GMS Publishing House

Düsseldorf

610 20260612 engl This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Dieser Artikel ist ein Open-Access-Artikel und steht unter den Lizenzbedingungen der Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (Namensnennung). M0652 002 International Society for Arts and Medicine The Healing Arts – Forging Alliances of Arts & Medicine Workshop Abstracts Berlin 20260618 20260620 26isfam002 TextBackground: Master’s degree in Acting and Directing (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Max Reinhardt Seminar) / work as director (Schillertheater Rudolstadt, ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel) / practitioner of Fooling, a playful approach to the inner world, since 2013 / member of the Nomadic Academy for Fools from 2018 to 2025Objectives: Consciously stepping in and out of narratives. My work is inspired by the archetype of the Fool, whom I consider free from any fixed role or state, yet able to embody them. My work seeks to realize the freedom of one’s own Fool – and to understand what hinders it. “Who else but you?” points to the hidden aspects of oneself as well as the fact that only oneself can bring about change.Methods: Theatre improvisation. Basic tools: uncertainty (accepting not knowing), receptivity (being guided from within), inner dialogue (embodied response-ability), and humor (especially the ability to laugh at oneself). The stage becomes one’s inner world, which the practitioner explores by embodying whatever arises – characters from one’s life, animals, objects, moods. All become part of embodied response-ability.Results and Conclusion: Acceptance of what is present – development of self-love. Shifting focus from outside to inside, getting in touch with one’s own needs. Improved ability to listen – to oneself and to the world around. This work is highly complex: it combines inner and community work, serves as stress reduction and awareness training, and addresses both what one knows and what one does not yet know. 0 0 0 0