Publications and Supplies

Limited Edition Sesame T.Shirts

Now available from the Sesame office: a limited supply of specially produced black Sesame T. shirts bearing the Sesame logo on the front and the words 'Sesame Dramatherapy with Soul' on the back in white.  Various sizes available.

Cost: £11 + p&p

Please contact the Sesame office for an order form and for further details.

DVDs

The Terpsichore/Sesame DVDs are are available by mail order from the Sesame Institute office.

The three DVDs are

  1. The Making of Sesame - £10 + p&p This DVD is an interview with Marian (Billy) Lindkvist.  Billy answers questions on the Sesame approach - and Movement with Touch among other topics.
  2. A short Introduction to Drama and Movement Therapy - £10 + p&p. This DVDs is intended for practitioners who want to provide a visual introduction to Sesame Dramatherapy, geared at service purchasers and funders. It includes short interviews and moments from sessions.
  3. An Introduction to Drama and Movement Therapy - £12 + p&p This DVD is a longer introduction to Sesame, outlining the key components of the approach – Drama, Myths, Movement and Movement with Touch. It includes interviews and shows experiential sessions.

The Sesame Institute would like to thank the Terpsichore Trust for the DVD grant which made this project possible, and to the DVDs Director Shinta Hermanns and her partner David Summer for their genius in creating each of these Sesame resources.

HOW TO ORDER: Please contact the Sesame Office on 020 7633 9690 or email info@sesame-institute.org.

The Sesame Institute also produces printed literature for use in research and enquiry.

A full list of publications is available, along with details of how to order.

The following books are also available.

Dramatherapy with Myth and Fairytale 
The Golden Stories of Sesame

Jenny Pearson, Mary Smail and Pat Watts
Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers
228 pages

"Within these pages is a treasure trove of timeless stories that can be adapted and applied to the needs of different client groups and the style of each therapist, as well as introductory exercises, warm-ups and scene setting suggestions.  The Sesame approach has been found to produce striking results with myriad clinical populations, including individuals with learning difficulties, offenders in psychiatric settings, children with emotional and behavioural difficulties and adults in mental health."

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Book Price £23, Postage and Packing £3.50 (UK), Total £26.50

Bring White Beads When You Call on The Healer - SOLD OUT

Marian R Lindkvist

Bring White Beads, a wonderfully readable book, honours the professional and the general reader by its insights and the author's narrative powers. Her life achievement is SESAME, the highly respected therapy project and organization of the United Kingdom. Across more than forty years she was visionary founder, and Honorary Director. Today Sesame has an excellent training program of positive benefits to innumerable patients around the globe. This book documents her pioneering work in dramatherapy, from her carefully crafted therapeutic achievements in the UK to her exploration of healing rituals in South Africa.

The Sesame office is the only outlet for this publication

More information

Book Price £20, Postage & Packing £3.50 (UK only), Total £23.50.

Discovering The Self through Drama & Movement - The Sesame Approach

Edited by Jenny Pearson
July 1996: 350 pages, illustrated ISBN 1 85302 384 1

This is the first detailed account of the theory and practice of the Sesame Approach, which was created by Marian Lindkvist 30 years ago, as it has evolved and been handed down experientially. It is now taught at the Central School of Speech and Drama; many of the contributors are current or former teachers at the school, or are Sesame trained therapists working in the field. Jenny Pearson trained as a drama and movement therapist on the Sesame Course at the Central School of Speech and Drama and is now a tutor there. She also trained in psychodynamic counselling at Westminster Pastoral Foundation, and is now in private practice.

More information

Book Price £20, Postage & Packing £3.50 (UK Second Class) Total price £23.50.

Archive material held in the Sesame office

(Please note that if you wish to read any of the documents in the following lists you should contact the Sesame Office to arrange to do so)
Articles List
Essay List

Dissertations held by CSSD

(Please note that if you wish to read any of the dissertations listed you should contact the course tutor, Richard Hougham at CSSD)
Dissertation List