Forum Theatre is role-playing with a difference. It is a highly effective training tool that is entertaining, energising, memorable and fun.
There is an audience (you) a stage (a room) along with some dynamic and convincing actors and facilitators (that’s us)
Actors will perform a carefully scripted real life scenario that is relevant to your business environment. After watching the scenario it is then replayed and the audience are actively encouraged to make comments on what they have witnessed. The scenario can be stopped at any point, rewound, and replayed over and over again. The audience can input their ideas, and influence the words spoken, tone of voice, attitudes, body language, and behaviour of the actors in a safe and non threatening environment. It gives staff the opportunity to consider their own attitudes and behaviours and how these affect the workplace.
Each script will be researched with yourselves to best reflect your organisational environment, language and culture. Your staff will feel empowered as they can speak to and question the actors altering their behaviour and creating best practice before their eyes.
Forum theatre can be used in a variety of ways such as, customer service skills recruiting and interviewing techniques, management and staff development, negotiating skills, sales training, and equality and diversity.
Forum theatre is also very effective when used for awareness training conferences.