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These are groups which specialize in human dynamics and/or human resource training for corporate or organizational development. Some groups have been especially active in international settings. Groups may use Forum Theater techniques, Sociometry, improvisation, role play, or other techniques mentioned in other categories (cross-listed where appropriate).
PACT TRAINING
Pact began its work many years ago as the C-J (Criminal Justice) Players of John Jay College. They have evolved from a group purely focused on criminal justice matters to a multi-faceted training group that addresses many human dynamics issues, including diversity, harassment, leadership styles, and team-building. They have worked with many Fortune 500 corporations as well as community service agencies with client-centered programs using a form of role play known as Structured Improvisation®. They have not lost touch with their roots, still being one of the principal trainers for the NYPD Emergency Services Dept.
Actor-trainers who have been carefully prepared for the workshop goals and teaching points begin a scenario which is then entered by a trainee. The scene continues as an improvisation, but with the intention of guiding the trainee and observers toward particular behavioral change goals.
Joyce St. George and Frank Canavan, Co-Directors
PACT Training, Inc.
PO BOX 106
New Kingston NY 12459
(914)586-3992
e-mail: PACTrain@catskill.net
CORNELL INTERACTIVE THEATER ENSEMBLE
Formed in January 1992,(but based on continuing work which began in 1987), this college-based group designs scenes which illustrate many human relations issues and performs for a variety of clients: academic, corporate, and non-profit.
Their current brochure mentions workshops on Race, Gender, Sexual Harassment, Homophobia, HIV/AIDS, Career Development, Disability, and Class. Their workshops combine live performance and audience participation to help peop[le examine human issues. Each CITE workshop features professional actors in scenarios that vividly illustrate problematic encounters between co-workers.
When each scene is over, the actors remain in character as the audience, with the assistance of a CITE facilitator, asks questions about their behavior, motivations, and feelings. The interchanges permit empathy by audience members, clearer identification of problems, and of strategies for prevention. Their succesful series on date rape spun off into a regular series of workshops for Cornell students called Sex at Seven.
Recently, they collaborated with Purdue University's Campus Climate Workshop Group for the Women's Program in engineering one a series of workshops on gender and classroom. A conference is planned for May 8-11, 1997 in Ithaca on Human Relations Training in Engineering Education. (Conference Contact--mfd6@cornell.edu )
Contact:
Patricia J. Brown
Center for Theater Arts
430 College Ave,
Ithaca NY 14850
(607)254-2759
FULL CIRCLE THEATER
of Philadelphia, PA, works out of Temple University's Center for Intergenerational Learning, but addresses a wide range of human dynamics issues in institutional, educational, and business settings.
Contact:
Rob Hutter, Artistic Director
June Grushka, Managing Director
Full Circle Theater
Temple University
1601 North Broad St, Room 206
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone: (215)204-3195
LEARN IT LIVE
Don't know a lot about this group, but Tina Smagala, its founder, is the author of a publication for the American Society for Training and Development entitled Theater-Based Training (ASTD, Nov. 1994, Issue #9411) which describes how to script a simple wrong way/right way set of pair of scenes to be used in management training.
Contact:
Tina Smagala
56 Lake Breeze Park
Rochester NY 14622
(716)544-4770
STOP-GAP
STOP-GAP is Southern California's award-winning theater company dedicated to using drama as an educational and therapetuic tool to positively impact individual lives. In addition to touring presentations in schools and a therapeutic drama program with specific populations, Stop-Gap offers Programs in the Workplace. Whether the goal is education, staff motivation, training, problem-solving, or individual growth for employees and their families, this group's programs offer an effective way to address the issue in an innovative and effective forum.
Contact:
Stop-Gap
1570 Brookhollow Dr.
Santa Ana CA 92705
PHONE: (714)979-7061 FAX (714)979-7065
FROM LA COUNTY ONLY (800) 381-8481STOP-GAP Los Angeles
PO Box 64256
Los Angeles CA 90064
KODA Productions
KODA PRODUCTIONS works out of Columbia, Missouri, designing theater-based training for a variety of settings. Co-founder Rodger Smith is working on a dissertation involving corporate theater and recently (Feb 1996) presented a panel on this subject at the East Central Theater Conference in DC
Contact:
KODA Productions
Kirsten Smith or Rodger Smith
606 Hardin
Columbia, MO 65203
Phone: (314)875-1920
INTERACT
Interact (UK) does Role-Play Training programs using professional actors for a variety of British organizations. Their Web page lists work in communication skills, counselling techniques, teamwork, customer care, sales skills, and interview techniques.
Contact:
Nicola Ponton
INTERACT
60 Hood Street
Northhampton, England, UK
NN13QU
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