Theatre for Change has three primary elements, Engage, Explore and Express.
If you work from a philosophy that, 'those who have to live with the outcomes, should be the ones making the decisions', then you will more likely facilitate your engagements passing through three waves, (1) invite the telling of the problem story, its contributing elements and effect, (2) peoples attempts to stand against the problem story, what worked and hasn't worked, and (3) invite exploration around local and outside/new initiatives that may work to change the problem story. An important fourth component or element in the story of change is commitments. Who can and will commit to what. This part of the story includes local individual and collective, and off the community expertise in the form of government and organisations and other supports and their workers.

Theatre for Change

​have you ever heard the saying,
"a picture paints a thousand words?

Theatre for Change is a facilitated process where participants are invited to contribute possible solutions to  short scenes and scenarios presented before them.

Using story-telling, theatre and drama techniques we are able to create safe spaces for people to tell the story of the problem, how it effects our lives, what maintains or upholds it's presence in our lives and what we think we can do ourselves and in coalition with others to reduce the influence of the problem story in our lives.

Theatre for Change is a shift from the idea of generic programs created - outside the community, then delivered in and across multiple communities - to an initiative that hears the voices, opinions and ideas of local people and explores their possible contribution to creating safer more liveable community.

"With Theatre for Change we don't need the thousand words to paint the picture, people often know it when they see it"  

We have delivered Theatre for Change across
five states around:
    
- Lateral Violence
- Domestic and Family Violence
- Child Safety - Safer Children
- Community and Individual health Initiatives
- Anti-smoking campaigns
- Drug and Alcohol in-community discussions
- Men's programmes in prison
- Prison to community transition
- Team Building (Corporate, NGO, Government)
- Cross Cultural Awareness
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Theatre for Change workshops make possible opportunity to Engage, Explore and Express to facilitate  capacity building then deliver capacity exchange among local people seeking positive social change in their community.

ABC Radio story - Theatre for Change

Click on the play symbol below to hear the radio story  by ABC Radio recorded at the National Conference on domestic violence.

For the full story visit, 
http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2011/07/13/3268811.htm

“I've never seen anything like this kind of process
 where you (Natjul) draw out from people what
they think, this can just about work for any topic I think”
Eddie – Cairns, Far North Queensland.