Amir Atzmon is a playback theatre and improv artist, a somatic psychotherapist and a translator of psychoanalytic theory based out of Tel Aviv.
I met Amir in December 2025 at a Jewish cultural festival and experienced some of the playful spaces he facilitates, and I wanted to share some of Amir’s experience and knowledge with my podcast audience.
We discuss playback theatre, creating safe spaces for improvisation and play, and group trauma and dynamics. We opened up Amir’s treasure chest of practical knowledge about how to build safety and trust with groups.
We spent a bit of time also talking about trauma in groups as it relates to Israeli society and the ongoing conflicts in the region. We recorded this episode in February before the most recent war in Iran, but I think much of the analysis still holds. I felt it was important to give space to that discussion given how Amir’s work is in Israel, and how much awful s**t is happening in and around Israel at the moment.
I felt uncomfortable with the idea of just leaving it as ‘Amir’s from Israel, nothing notable about that right now’. So I name that in the episode and I hope you find Amir’s very human (and I think compassionate) thoughts interesting and insightful.
I trust you’ll treat the discussion with the assumption of good faith as we tread complex and tricky territory. Its a banger of an episode and I hope you really enjoy it.
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