This essay will be exploring strategies, research and ideas that I have come across in the process of devising a 30 minute workshop about Anti-Bullying. I will also begin to reflect on future assignments and development that I might have to entail.
We have learned about many techniques and directors to help us along in our work. The two main directors I have focused on are Augusto Boal and Dorothy Heathcote. I have found them both very interesting to study. I have found their ways of study very different to each other, yet still very interesting and helpful.
Augusto Boal was a theatre director. He was most famous for his many techniques. I have three which I will mention; Invisible theatre, image theatre and forum theatre. The technique …show more content…
I enjoyed learning about this as I found it very interesting and a good way of working with the young people as it helps them be engaged and want to be a part of the workshop. Mantle of the expert was founded in the 1960’s. I will explain how mantle of the ex-pert is used with a group of young people in a workshop. First of all you must have matter of importance that needs to be addressed to the group of young people that you are working with and together you will devise and improvise role-play to find out what has happened and what needs to happen next. The ‘leader’ of the group needs to make sure that everyone that should be involved is getting involved and everything is going according to plan. The ‘leader’ can also come in and out of role whenever it is necessary. They need to make sure that they are motivating the young people. I really enjoy studying Mantle of the expert but there was only one thing that was puzzling me and that was why is it called mantle of the expert? I only found out why when I read one of Heathcote’s books. She simply could not find any other words to describe …show more content…
As a group, we had not accurately finished our piece but we decided that we were going to show the class what we had. We had positive feedback and constructive feedback which is always good. My personal feedback was that the audience would have liked to see more facilitation from me. So as another week went by, we tried to find myself some more facilitation but due to lack of time and space, unfortunately, I had to do what I could. I then in-troduced the piece instead of Becca so that got to interact with the young people a little more than I did in the dress run.
When facilitating, you need to make sure that you are not patronising the young people and you are not leading them in such a big way.
"The teaching artist needs to learn how to facilitate, when to ask probing questions, and how to allow the participants responses to speak for themselves" "the facilitator works with the participants rather than against them" (Taylor: 2003,
We have learned about many techniques and directors to help us along in our work. The two main directors I have focused on are Augusto Boal and Dorothy Heathcote. I have found them both very interesting to study. I have found their ways of study very different to each other, yet still very interesting and helpful.
Augusto Boal was a theatre director. He was most famous for his many techniques. I have three which I will mention; Invisible theatre, image theatre and forum theatre. The technique …show more content…
I enjoyed learning about this as I found it very interesting and a good way of working with the young people as it helps them be engaged and want to be a part of the workshop. Mantle of the expert was founded in the 1960’s. I will explain how mantle of the ex-pert is used with a group of young people in a workshop. First of all you must have matter of importance that needs to be addressed to the group of young people that you are working with and together you will devise and improvise role-play to find out what has happened and what needs to happen next. The ‘leader’ of the group needs to make sure that everyone that should be involved is getting involved and everything is going according to plan. The ‘leader’ can also come in and out of role whenever it is necessary. They need to make sure that they are motivating the young people. I really enjoy studying Mantle of the expert but there was only one thing that was puzzling me and that was why is it called mantle of the expert? I only found out why when I read one of Heathcote’s books. She simply could not find any other words to describe …show more content…
As a group, we had not accurately finished our piece but we decided that we were going to show the class what we had. We had positive feedback and constructive feedback which is always good. My personal feedback was that the audience would have liked to see more facilitation from me. So as another week went by, we tried to find myself some more facilitation but due to lack of time and space, unfortunately, I had to do what I could. I then in-troduced the piece instead of Becca so that got to interact with the young people a little more than I did in the dress run.
When facilitating, you need to make sure that you are not patronising the young people and you are not leading them in such a big way.
"The teaching artist needs to learn how to facilitate, when to ask probing questions, and how to allow the participants responses to speak for themselves" "the facilitator works with the participants rather than against them" (Taylor: 2003,