Theatre-based learning

Theatre-based learning is a qualified learning method that we use and pass gladly on. To use experiential, high impact, long-standing (centuries of use!) methods in teaching, training, lecturing - anywhere where learning is facilitated – has proven to be of 70% impact, whilst academic, technical learning results in 30%.

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The world of theatre is where people share. Storytellers and Plays perform to audiences “life with the dull moments taken out” (Alfred Hitchcock), putting up a mirror to us. It is in the theatre where people connect; with each other and with the larger world. The theatre confronts us, challenges us, entertains us and places us in a possible future. No other place provides us that platform of conscious learning at the deepest possible level in the shortest imaginable time.  Theatre is where you can see, where you can behold a possible future.

1. Applying theatre principles to your development needs. Here, the scene is created for you to look into the mirror. The theatre-based learning expert creates the scene(s) that portray your, your group’s or your organisation’s present challenges. This scene is 3-dimensional and makes transparent what is actually going on. In addition scenes of a possible future can be created, exploring whether this vision is realistic and inclusive.

2. Applying theatre skills to your development needs. Here the expertise of theatre professionals is adapted: directing, acting, scriptwriting, light & sound support, set-designing, producing and ticket-sales. These master communicators have passed on physical, vocal, psychological, social and historic insights that provide for High Impact performance to all.

If you would like to learn more about the Theatre-based learning method, please contact us and we will be happy to share what we know.

Train-The-Trainer

Rather than bringing in our expertise using the theatre-based learning method, we pass it on to your people.

For immediate use on your existing internal and/or external programmes, we can pass on our expertise to the relevant person delivering. This means a mixture of learning the Pedagogic and Psychological impact of the method as well as the actual practice of the chosen method for your programme.