Forum Theater
Your employees step in
The Forum Theater is based on a scene specifically written for a given topic aiming at a goal. The audience is informed about this goal, e.g. "better communication between departments" and the actors start to play. Then a moderator calls "Stop" and asks the audience for suggestions regarding the progress of the scene. The audience states their ideas and thus contributes to the solution of the problem. The actors adapt the scene according to the suggestions and continue with the improvised scene.
New ideas solve the problem
The scene is not always performed chronologically, e.g. the moderator may skip back to a past scene in order to start there again with a new idea. The audience soon feels which suggestions lead to the goal and which are more likely to hinder the process. The scene is played until the audience together with the actors finds an acceptable solution. However, these are always the ideas of the employees that lead the scene to a successful conclusion.
Cooperation motivates
The Forum Theater is solution-oriented and related to practice. The team provides the solution. Therefore it is acceptable and worth to be supported. After a short period of time, the ice is broken and your employees provide a multitude of suggestions, deriving from the performance of the actors. The relaxed work and the open atmosphere engage the creativity and the desire to be part of the solution. Most of all, it is a lot of fun. Incidentally, the employees learn new problem solving strategies and experience their personal action alternatives within such a process.
A new perspective makes it possible
Since the employees quasi look onto themselves with the aid of the actors, they see details, which might slip in everyday business. The necessity of change is recognized and the change realized immediately. Sometimes the solutions found cannot be transferred to everyday life one to one. But the basic idea of the experienced change finds its way into the company. With an overwhelming acceptance.
Unternehmenstheater - Business-Theater



