I am going to look at Rosy Martin as a source, and also practically engage with her idea of phototherapy to explore gender roles.
Since 1986, Rosy Martin has been running phototherapy workshops tailored to specific audiences and working in different environments such as schools, art galleries and prisons. She says that there are two main models of her phototherapy workshops:
"1. 'Opening up the family album', a workshop, in which participants work
with their existing family albums, expanding the possible readings.
(suggested length 1.5 or 2 days)
2. 'Re-enactment phototherapy - memory and identity', a workshop, which
incorporates and builds on from (1). In this participants learn the
methodology of and experience re-enactment phototherapy for themselves.
Working in pairs, the participants will each experience a phototherapy
session, both as sitter/director and as phototherapist. Using the
photographs generated, which make visible aspects and parts of the
selves that remain hidden in the 'everyday', they will create new
narratives, new outcomes and transformations. By working together in
pairs and in the whole group, they will emotionally process the material
opened up.
(suggested length 5 days. If not possible 2 weekends, or 3-4 evenings
and one weekend.)"
(www.rosymartin.info/phototherapy workshops.html)
I am going to have a go at the second of the two. Firstly doing sessions with 3 or 4 different people, then doing 6 sessions (3 each) with one of the above in order to compare and contrast each session with the others. I'm going to ask the other person to choose a specific role, either a different sex, an 'idealised' version of their sex, a gender stereotype, an 'idealised' version of themselves, or a family member they wish not to become or see themselves becoming.
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