Training

Professional Development Workshops for EDUCATORS, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKERS and FACILITATORS

Develop your understanding of and appreciation for Forum Theatre – a UNESCO-recognized tool for positive social change. Mixed Company Theatre’s Professional Development Workshops create a space for solving problems and practicing solutions. Learn how to take effective action, exploring choices and consequences by critically examining responses to real-life situations.

These popular summer workshops are always well-attended, so book your space early! Download a workshop brochure.

Please note that all workshops are held at 157 Carlton Street in Toronto, Ontario.

UNDERSTAND HOW SELF-ESTEEM AFFECTS MOMENTS OF DECISION
Forum Theatre portrays a worst-case scenario. This catalyses spectators who then become “Spect-Actors”, replacing characters themselves to change that worst-case for the better. By seeing different people play the same role, an individual is thrown into a creative world of multiple possibilities, perspectives and positive outcomes. Through Mixed Company Theatre’s Professional Development Workshops, you can learn to use Forum Theatre as a unique, interactive tool for social change, redefining outcomes by situating the audience as participants in solution creation. Develop your own skills in the intricacies of these techniques through:

INTRODUCTION TO FORUM THEATRE: PART I

JULY 11/2012, JULY 13/2012

What you’ll learn	Learn to build trust through games and interactive techniques, including storytelling and ‘sculpting’ – developing images to create scenarios to be activated in PART II. Understand this first step in Forum Theatre creation: enhance your communication skills, discovering how you can create a safe environment, and begin to understand how self-esteem affects moments of decision.
Who should attend	EVERYONE AND ANYONE
Fee	$50
Duration	Half-Day
Class Size/Facilitator	Maximum 25 / Mixed Company Facilitator
Pre-Requisites	None
Materials Provided	N/A
Registration	Download a Workshop Registration Form

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INTRODUCTION TO FORUM THEATRE: PART II

JULY 11/2012, JULY 13/2012

What you’ll learn	Build on the knowledge, skills and techniques gained in INTRODUCTION TO FORUM THEATRE: PART I. Clarify and strengthen your facilitation skills, through development of your understanding of the fundamentals of creating and activating Forum Theatre scenes. Explore the multiple perspectives these techniques provide when used as tools for positive problem-solving.
Who should attend	EVERYONE AND ANYONE
Fee	$50
Duration	Half-Day
Class Size/Facilitator	Maximum 25 / Mixed Company Facilitator
Pre-Requisites	INTRODUCTION TO FORUM THEATRE: PART I
Materials Provided	N/A
Registration	Download a Workshop Registration Form

MASKS OF MANIPULATION

AUGUST 13 – AUGUST 14/2012

What you’ll learn	Invaluable tools for character development and the conflict-resolution process. Developed by Artistic Director, Simon Malbogat, these Commedia dell’Arte-style masks help define our recognition of different external manipulative energies. Each mask presents the face of universally-recognized emotional responses to these manipulative energies, allowing participants in this workshop to develop acute understanding of manipulation: how and why it happens, why we allow it and what to do about it.
Who should attend	EDUCATORS, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKERS, FACILITATORS, THEATRE PROFESSIONALS
Fee	$200
Duration	2 Full Days
Class Size/Facilitator	Maximum 15 – 20/ Simon Malbogat
Pre-Requisites	INTRODUCTION TO FORUM THEATRE: PART I and II
Materials Provided	SUPPLEMENTAL MAP OF THE MASKS OF MANIPULATION
Registration	Download a Workshop Registration Form

FACILITATOR/JOKER* WORKSHOP

* ‘JOKER’ is the term used to identify a facilitator responsible for the Forum Theatre process. A ‘JOKER’ leads present-ation participants as the Forum play evolves, becoming the liaison between spectators and the characters on stage.

AUGUST 15 – AUGUST 17/2012

What you’ll learn	Become awake, aware and alert to your own negative patterns, becoming an effective facilitator of the same process for others. Develop skills that draw out self-expression; allow those participating to feel safe, and find their own voices in a unique and supportive environment that promotes dialogue, debate and change. ‘JOKERS’ create Forum Theatre scenarios to facilitate and explore internal manipulators including judgment, comparison and self-importance. All participants in this 3 day workshop receive a detailed supplemental reference handbook of Forum Theatre games and facilitation techniques.
Who should attend	EDUCATORS, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKERS, FACILITATORS, THEATRE PROFESSIONALS
Fee	$350
Duration	3 Full Days
Class Size/Facilitator	Maximum 10 – 12/ Simon Malbogat
Pre-Requisites	INTRODUCTION TO FORUM THEATRE: PART I and II, MASKS OF MANIPULATION
Materials Provided	34-Page Joker Handbook
Registration	Download a Workshop Registration Form