1.What do you consider to be the role of the facilitator?
The role of the facilitator is to enact change in the lives of the people they are working with. They must do this in an encouraging manner in order to inspire the group to achieve something great. The facilitator must leave their own issues at the door and use their values and ethics to run workshops that will be beneficial to its participants.
2. What considerations will you have to give to the participants and agencies you will be working with?
We will consider what the group are currently working on as we want our workshop to be relevant to them and to further the work they are already doing. Whilst we will be aiming to make our workshop run alongside the groups current work we will still be using our own fresh ideas in order to make sure our practice is interesting and innovative for the participants and hope to provide them with new ways of creating work.
We will also need to consider the structure and format in which the group usually run in order to ensure that our workshop flows in a way that the group are already accustomed to. For example, due to the length of the workshop the group always take a short break roughly halfway through so we need to ensure that our workshop allows space for this break. We also need to respect the fact that the group have added a session during half term in order to accommodate for our workshop.
3. How will your context influence your artistic practice?
Nicholson (2014) discusses how applied theatre is tied to contemporary questions about the politics of context, space and place and how practitioners often work with groups of people who are in a venerable situation.
Whilst working as applied drama practitioners we need to consider the fact that all of our participants will have different things going on in their lives that we will not be aware of. For this reason, we need to ensure that we respect the views and opinions of each participant and respect the fact that the may not wish to share their opinions or personal stories.
4. How will your own values influence your decision making and what challenges will this present you when creating effective practice?
The central value of our workshop is to build confidence. We want to use everyday situations in order to build the confidence of the participants. We need to be patient with the group as we will be dealing with situations the group may find difficult to discuss and respect each member equally to ensure that they feel able to share their own ideas.
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