The Traveling Pedagogy Program of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Syzefxi continue for a second consecutive year the Cultural Psychotherapy Program for junior and senior high school students, presenting four new experiential and participatory performances that connect today’s teenagers with history, art, and science.

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“I EXIST IN HISTORY”

A participatory and exploratory performance
From October 6, 2025

• What does a modern teenager have in common with Emperor Constantine the Great?

• What can Alexander the Great teach us about conflicts with our parents?

• And what can the history of Thessaloniki reveal about gender relations?

Through an interactive and engaging theatrical experience, students get to know figures from Greek history and discover unexpected similarities with their own lives.
They then take part in experiential activities and games focusing on goal-setting, conflict management at home and school, gender issues, and bullying.

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“I EXIST IN MY CHOICES”

What do I want? What can I do? What do I deserve?
From October 6, 2025

Through an open session on stage, inspired by true dramatized stories, students embark on a journey of self-awareness and conscious career orientation.
They identify their strengths and weaknesses, learn to use and accept them, distinguish their own expectations from those of their family or peers, and find their authentic voice when making decisions about studies and life.

Career guidance thus becomes a process of personal growth — a conscious and meaningful life choice that motivates teenagers to follow their path with clarity and purpose.

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“I EXIST IN CULTURE”

I Once Had a Hero
From January 12, 2026

• What connects Alexandros Papadiamantis with Diary of a Wimpy Kid?

• Don Quixote with YouTubers?

• Sophia Vembo with Eleni Foureira?

A performance about the generation gap, role models then and now, and the question of what makes art “good.”
A performance that challenges, inspires, and unites.

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“I EXIST IN PSYCHOLOGY”

Me and Power
From January 12, 2026

Students watch dramatized versions of famous psychology experiments (Milgram, Stanford Prison, Asch, Bandura) and, through experiential activities, seek scientific answers to their own impulses of questioning, opposition, and rebellion.

Through the combination of theatre, scientific knowledge, and lived experience, teenage resistance is transformed into constructive questioning and growth.

With the fundamental belief that topics concerning children and adolescents must always be guided by professionals from education and mental health, the I EXIST performances bring together — for the first time — philologists, educators, psychologists, directors, and actors, discovering new ways and spaces of collaboration, both on and off stage.