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EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY TRAINING
“Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common, celebrate it every day”
Maya Angelou
COURSE TIMINGS AND BRIEF OUTLINE
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INTRODUCTION
“Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.” People want to work in a place where managers and staff celebrate diversity, promote equality and respect the rights and dignity of each other.
We are aware that some elements of statutory training can be met with reactions ranging from boredom to reticence. Equality and Diversity training can sometimes be seen as something worse than a necessary evil. However, by crafting bespoke pieces with actors we are consistently able to create training soaked in local concerns and brittle with personal relevance for the audience with whom we are working.
COURSE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course, all staff would:
• Have a chance to celebrate their own and others’ diversity
• Understand the business benefits of diversity at work for the organisation as a whole, and for their own department
• Understand the power of pre-conceptions and assumptions, and the role they play in all prejudice, including their own
• Reflect and interact with a real-life case study
• Be a aware of their organisation’s relevant policies and guidelines
• Have an understanding of their own legal rights and responsibilities regarding discrimination
FORUM THEATRE
Forum Theatre is an interactive theatre form devised in the early 1970s by Augusto Boal. An audience is shown a short play in which the characters explore an issue. There is opportunity for the audience to stop the play, ask questions and brief each of the actors about changes to their character’s behaviour. The play is then restarted, incorporating the audience’s suggestions. This allows the audience to view the impact of different behaviour on individuals
Forum theatre is often used in the place of role play as many people are reluctant to get involved in role play, often concentrating more on their fear of looking foolish than learning from the experience. Forum Theatre leaves the performing to the professionals, allowing the participants to engage fully with the issues
The Benefits
• Script that mimics real life situations within the organisation. Thereby allowing audience members to experience the emotions involved and the impact of behaviour on individuals
• Difficult subjects played out in a safe environment the audience/participants can then explore change in behaviour/attitude and again see these worked out before them
• An opportunity to explore the subtleties of diversity and equality and explore the sensitive and multifaceted nature of issues that many people can relate to
• Forum theatre allows reflection and debate/questioning, ensure that participants are engaged
“The potential of the Human Spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you need to know is how to tap into that well.”
(Jack Welsh, CEO, General Electric)
"Complex concepts, delivered in a fun way that makes them real!"
(Chris Goscombe, Director of Human Resourses, Easyjet)
Please contact Milly Sinclair
creativeedgeuk@aol.com 07703 181 630