Converging worlds: fostering co-facilitation and relationships for health promotion through drama at the grassroots

This paper reflects on the development of a grassroots program for health promotion in which drama is the core pedagogy. Drawing on stories of practice and the findings of a recent action research pilot project, the co-authors---a drama practitioner and a health professional---canvass the complex issues associated with defining and nurturing co-facilitation and working relationships across health, drama and education at the grassroots level. Key findings from the action research project were the critical role of co-planning to support co-facilitation, and the importance of co-facilitation to ensuring a genuine sharing of the program between health and drama. The authors provide perspectives from the worlds of drama and health on these findings, and on their experiences of how a 'convergent lens' has hanged their understanding and practice of both drama and health in the drama/health paradigm they have constructed in their shared worksite.