Exploring
Training using Drama ...so much more than role play
Using Drama in
Training can open up a world of possibilities. Taking improvisation
techniques from the theatre and applying them with corporate teams
allows you to explore a wide range of issues.
Whether you want to
use it to explore themes such as Customer Service, Dealing with
Difficult People, Presentation Skills, or other management issues,
training with drama can be very effective by allowing people to
experience new ways of thinking and behaving.
Not everyone takes
to standing on the stage, but drama can incorporate a lot more than
that. If working together as a team, who creates the script and
devises the story? Who creates the props, scenery,
lights and costumes? Who should direct and what are the ground
rules?
Training using Drama options can include:
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Team
Building with Theatre
can be a great way to allow teams to release some tension,
change group dynamics and have fun. Using a combination of games
and improvisations that can ultimately lead to creating a
performance develops great team spirit. It is chance to reveal
different dimensions to the team and its members in a safe and
enjoyable environment. (See also our
team building options)
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Actor for a Day Drama
Workshop will lead you through a thrilling
and unforgettable experience, turning your team into the cast of a
play. Training with actors and directors will help your team release
their creative energy and express themselves in new and hitherto
unimagined ways!
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Storytelling
workshops
offer techniques to deliver stories and information in a variety
of ways that captivate and enthral an audience. It is
performance orientated so you get to experience acting
techniques and deliver them using your individual skills. It
uncovers limiting beliefs, enables group work in a supportive
environment and offers exploration of what an audience requires.
With the emphasis on
telling a story, participants are removed from fear of failure
with the focus elsewhere they are released to perform at their
best.
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Working with
actors to explore themes such as Dealing with Bullying.
Participants instruct the actors how to behave in certain
circumstances and then explore the outcomes
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Creating
interactive role plays for themes such as: Customer Service
or Dealing with Difficult People. Participants can explore what
happens when things go wrong and how to put them right in a sae
environment.
Delivering
business outcomes
Outcomes can
include:
What
kinds of skills can you learn on a typical workshop?
Workshops are designed with your needs in
mind, but a typical Actor for a Day workshop might include:
The day starts with a series of
games and exercises – used extensively with actors to relax and
‘free’ them from their inhibitions – and moves on to a session
that’s all about your body and breathing. This helps you to develop
‘stage presence’ and become more expressive and engaging. After
this, there are further sessions on the use of voice and movement in
which you will learn how to prepare and warm up your voice and body
for the performance.
The tutor works with the
participants to create the structure for a suitable performance –
teaching the importance of rhythm, pace, pause and listening - as
well as helping each participant to develop their character. The
performance will show that delivering words is much more than simply
reciting from a page of text; it is about ‘lifting’ the words from
the page and speaking them as though they are your own. By the end
of the day, all participants should expect to:
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Feel an
increase in confidence
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Understand the
importance of preparation and rehearsal of materials
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Develop a
deeper sense of presence
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Learn more
about their voice and how to use it for greater impact
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Understand the
power of the pause as a communication tool
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Experience the
sensation of really ‘holding’ their audience
So, very much more than you would
expect of a typical training activity!
Your team will gain a new knowledge of each other’s strengths and
skills. Our activities are designed to allow those skills to come to
the fore where perhaps they haven’t been noticed before.
JamBerry’s
activities are designed for groups between 6 and
100 people.
Location
Our
Training through Drama can be held in locations around the country, including
large meeting rooms or even small theatre spaces.
Alternatively we can run a
workshop for you at one of our preferred venues. These include
The Hawth Theatre in Crawley. A
purpose built Arts and Entertainment Centre with in addition to the
main auditorium, has a studio theatre, meeting rooms, on-site
restaurant and bars, free parking and tucked away in the 38 acre
woodland an outdoor amphitheatre for use in the summer months.
The Hawth is just 25 miles from
London, 4 miles from Gatwick with excellent transport links.
If you want to find out more about Team Building
from JamBerry either
e-mail
info@jamberry.co.uk or call 0800
840 2418 and we will send you an information pack. All
JamBerry training can be adapted to your organisations particular
needs.
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