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Forum or ‘Fishbowl’ Theatre

This type of role play is played out by two or more actors running a scripted scene demonstrating issues such as entrenched ideas, procedural inefficiencies and cultural inclusion. The audience then suggests changes in behaviour or language, and the actors then replay the scene any number of times with the suggested changes. Forum or ‘fishbowl’ theatre is often used to explore an emotive or controversial topic. It’s designed to stimulate debate, develop learning and modify behaviour.

Role Play

In role play, participants engage in face-to-face conversations with actors, simulating real workplace interactions. They can try new approaches, rehearse new strategies and put theory into practice in a supportive, safe environment. Through authentic conversations with a ‘real’ character, participants are sensitively challenged and can gain significant insights into their own competencies and style. Role play can be a rehearsal for challenges, a skill development opportunity or an exploration of empathy and expanded understanding of difference. More often than not, it’s all these things and more.

Recruitment Process

Our actors have extensive experience in delivering credible, challenging roleplays within the recruitment process, allowing employers to assess in real time the communication skills, adaptability, and emotional and social intelligence of applicants.

Program Design and Development

We can provide end to end delivery of development initiatives. We can design, develop and write training programs, based on best practice from social and organisational psychology.

Improvisation

Often to clarify a point or highlight an issue, facilitators within a workshop will ask an actor to improvise on a situation, type of character or typical response. With their many years of experience as professional actors, the Corporate Actors Australia team can quickly grasp issues and create credible characters and responses.

Real Play

Real play allows participants to rehearse courageous conversations in a safe and supportive environment. Participants bring to these sessions details of a difficult conversation they need to have in the workplace. They brief the actor on the character, circumstances and issues to be addressed. The conversation then plays out, with the participant given the opportunity to ‘road test’ skills and ideas and receive constructive feedback afterwards.

Conversation Workshops

When difficult interactions are being played out within a workshop role play, participants can benefit from the input and interaction of colleagues. ‘Tag teaming’ within the group allows several participants to try a variety of approaches while the actor stays in character and treats it as a single conversation.

Pitch Practice

This type of role play allows participants to ‘test drive’ a persuasive conversation. As in real play, the actors take on the character and circumstances of the person being influenced. Whether it’s a new initiative, a big sale or a change in procedure, rehearsing an important influencing discussion in a safe, supportive environment builds confidence and expands skills.

Scripted Scenes

To inspire discussion or to focus on particular areas of learning, totally scripted scenes are sometimes played out by the actors. This allows specific issues to be targeted and addressed within training sessions.

Feedback

Quality feedback is essential to the success of any learning program. The highly experienced professionals of Corporate Actors Australia are skilled in giving written or verbal feedback delivered in constructive language that reinforces strengths and helps to identify areas for improvement.

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