Unleashing Creativity

Playful and creative work helps people to explore the entire range of their competencies and skills. A seminar that is outside one’s everyday environment might be a good space for this. Methods that involve all our senses and a broad range of possibilities for expression support this exploration: “Cognition isn’t what creates something new, but rather the instinct for enjoyment that stems from an inner need. A creative mind plays with things it loves (...)”. When participants are thinking creatively, they are able to combine diverse thinking styles and experiences to come up with new or unusual solutions.

Supporting creativity means giving participants opportunities to combine...
Diversity of thinking styles Cognitive and associative methods, structural work and critical thinking can stimulate our brains.	Diversity of experience Having people use their hands and their heads, encouraging group collaboration and individual work, as well as playful and serious activities.

Drama and Play

Theatre reflects the reality and shows us different points of views and interpretations of life. At the same time, theatre is always reflection for the actors as well as for the audience, no matter if played in a official theatre, on the street or in a classroom. The audience recognizes themselves in the magical space that is shown on stage. By changing the perspective, actors can recognize stereotypical behaviours easier and thus find alternative ways of acting in problematic situations. This way theatre can help to clarify situations in a playful manner.

In addition to that the playful and unconscious way of dealing with the foreign language helps to overcome inhibitions to speak or to present oneself during the seminar. Acting and laughing together creates an atmosphere of trust. Finally, fun and a good feeling for the group are important things for every seminar.

In order to be able to use the different ways of expression which the theatre offers, the participants have to make their body able to express itself and therefore they have to know their body very well. Only at this stage different forms of theatre can be used and the participants can leave step by step the audience and become actors themselves. This is the only way how participants cab become subjects instead of objects and develop from witness of a happening to protagonists. This development from spectator to actor happens in different phases. The introduction to theatre is therefore exercise and experiment with the own Body.

Statues

With the help of statues different topics and situations can be visualized. This form of presentation gives a lot of space to interpretations, so that different aspects of a topic can be made visible.

Newspaper Theatre

The newspaper theatre is another technique of the theatre of the oppressed by Augusto Boal. The basis are newspaper articles, headlines but also books, speeches etc. The scene is created with the help of news and reports.

Forum Theatre

Forum theatre is a method of the so called theatre of the opressed, developed by Augusto Boal during the Junta regime in Brasil. Today it is updated through the Centro de teatro do oprimido, which was founded through Boal. The classical forum theatre picks up everyday experience with violence or discrimination, develops small scenes, and finally seeks for behavioral alternatives. This happens jointly between actors and audience.

Creative Teaching Storyboarding

Collecting and structuring opinions, ideas, facts.

SPACE_r. The instruction of using city

SPACE_r. is a kind of performance about walking (spacer in polish) and discovering a different way of seeing and using public spaces. Invented by Performeria Warszawy.

Expressing in a holistic way

Workshops with stencil art, photography, radio or texts, they offer with very different media a possibility for expression. In our context it is the artistic expression regarding a societal relevant topic. Creativity starts with perception. Creative workshops help people that are used to work often cognitive, to perceive the people and environment different.

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• Educational Fields
  • Unleashing Creativity
    • A Shared Ideaspace
    • Different Ways to Use a Paperclip
    • Collegial Inspiration
    • Looking for Metaphors
    • Snap Your Name with Photos
    • Word Cloud
    • Mindmap
    • Global Mapping
    • Checklist: Testing an Idea
    • Checklist: Creative Spaces
    • New options through other perspectives
    • Bridge to the Future
    • Awakening Senses
    • Visual Facilitation
    • Identity River
    • The Boring Box
    • Social impact with 50 Euro
    • Designing a persona
    • Statues
    • Newspaper Theatre
    • Forum Theatre
    • Creative Teaching Storyboarding
    • SPACE_r. The instruction of using city
    • Expressing in a holistic way