Creative Potential of Failure: PEDAGOGY WORKSHOP

Name: Creative Potential of Failure: PEDAGOGY WORKSHOP
Start: 2025-10-17T19:00:00+03:00
End: 2025-10-19T17:00:00+03:00
Location: Αλλήλων Κέντρο Χορού & Μουσικής,Έρευνα-Σύμπραξη τεχνών

Schedule

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Sun, 19 Oct, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC+03:00

Location

Αλλήλων Κέντρο Χορού & Μουσικής,Έρευνα-Σύμπραξη τεχνών | Athens, AT

Creative Potential of Failure: PEDAGOGY WORKSHOP 17–18–19 October
Led by Gözde Atalay, gozde-atalay.com

This 3-day workshop is designed for educators, future teachers, and performing arts facilitators (theater, dance, movement...) who are interested in reimagining the teaching process and exploring their own creative potential.
📍 Schedule
Friday, 17 October · 19:00–22:30
Saturday, 18 October · 10:00–16:30
Sunday, 19 October · 10:00–17:00

Total hours: 17
Cost: 105 euros
Places limited to 12 participants

📌 Venue:
Αλλήλων~Κέντρο Χορού & Μουσικής
Έρευνα- Σύμπραξη τεχνών
Νευροκοπίου 18, Κεραμεικός (έξοδος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως)

📬 Bookings is essential because of limited places. To secure a place, I kindly ask participants to make a deposit.

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 6906859697

All of us have been students and therefore shaped through education. Start a conversation on education and everyone has a story to remember from our school years. Mostly a bitter one!! A story about failure or the pressure of being successful.

In many educational systems across different levels and contexts, failure is often stigmatized—seen as something to be avoided rather than embraced. We have stigmatized failure!! Our education system has demonized mistakes and has put extreme pressure on students to achieve high levels of academic success, overriding the joys of learning and making kids anxious and depressed.

This workshop invites a radical shift: to view failure as a powerful tool for growth, transformation, and creativity. It is interested in observing failure from a different angle. We will question the dominant models of education that prioritize perfection and performance over process, authenticity, and experimentation. It questions the One Size Fits All dominant approach of an educational system which wastes individual qualities and results in loss of individuality.

Through games, improvisation, movement, closed-eyes drawing, story dramatization, and creative singing, we will awaken our playfulness and begin to free ourselves from fear, control, and judgment. These tools will help participants experience how failure can become a guide rather than an obstacle.

Rooted in Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, Physical Theater, Creative Drama, and a Jungian perspective, this training offers both deep reflection and practical tools. Educators will be encouraged to transfer these experiences into their own teaching, shaping a more intuitive, responsive, and creative pedagogical approach.
Gozde ATALAY is a physical theater facilitator, director and actress born in Turkey and based in Athens. She has been performing since 2000 and graduated from the department of Istanbul University in 2004.
As a clown, she first trained in 2009 at EMCA (Municipality Circus School) in Spain, also engaging actively with other circus techniques. From 2011–2012 she taught in the social circus school for children “Cabuwazi” in Berlin.
As a physical theater performer, she studied with Hernan Gene and Gabriel Chame Buendia at “Chame and Gene Estudios Teatrales" in Madrid and with Thomas Prattki at the London International School of Performing Arts, where she completed the new full-time professional development program in 2014–2015 with a scholarship. She also trained with Mario Gonzalez, Giovanni Fusetti, Matej Matejka and Patrick Van Den Boom.
At the moment she is touring with her new show "Nomad" in Europe. She performed at the Ballhaus Ost in Berlin and at the Camden People’s Theatre in London in the show ''No Way Out'' with the company Flight of Escales from 2018–2019. She directed “Queens” at the festival Mujeres Que Cuentan in Santander in 2017, performed "Nasreddin Hodja Tales'' at the 3rd Storytelling Festival of Athens 2016 and “A Quiet Voice” in the International Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2014. From 2012–2013 she was a performer in ZirCouplet -Variete Shows in Berlin and in a street performance for the International Festival Carnival of Cultures Berlin 2012-to name just some of her performances. She is currently working with the company La Volada on a new show. Since 2006, she has been living and working in several countries, where she is performing, directing and teaching in various international projects.