Tag: role play
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Undercover Actors!
This is not some blog about how we do team building characters on fun spy missions. Nope. More interesting than that – and more real. Every now and again we’ve been asked to do a job that is a little out of the ordinary. As opposed to a big showy performance, like people often want,…
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Step into the Arena
Arena: (noun). A field of conflict, activity or endeavour. You might think it harsh, or even inappropriate, but Arena is the right metaphor for training. Instead of “Death by Powerpoint” – (not our phrase I hasten to add), training should be a living, exciting learning process that gives the trainee an unprecedented view of techniques and methods…
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Actors in Immersive Training.
More and more people are seeing the benefits of using actors to enhance and improve their training objectives these days. It makes sense: it’s an arena where people can try out new techniques and learn from mistakes in a way that they will remember and gives confidence in a real situation. What is the actors…
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Back to the 50’s
For a big screen event at the Cineworld O2 recently we had to trip back in time – again! Creating characters from the golden age of cinema, when theatres were all gilt and red velvet, we found Eugene, the slightly hypochondriac usher, new to the job, keen but nervous as anything because his mom told…
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He Stoops to Scrum!
It’s all about rugby this weekend! One of our actors, Nathan Morris was portraying the character of a young Adrian Stoop for the 150th anniversary of the inception of the Harlequins Rugby club! Adrian Stoop is one of their most lauded players, first appearing for the team in 1905 and is widely credited with revolutionising the game…
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Being useful
We’re having a valuable week. Training police investigators. Getting people to try new things in an arena they can happily learn from any mistakes in is a task in itself: people don’t want to make mistakes, they naturally want to get it right first time. When they let go of that inhibition though, we see…
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A flying Start!
We had some trouble trying to post this so it got saved as a draft. here it is in retrospect anyway! What a great start to the year! Despite all the sad news in the media of great performers passing, we’ve not had time to The start of this year has been so busy on…
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Holidays!
Happy summer holidays everyone! Lots of you will be setting off for sun and sand, (if you’re in the UK now we have the weather and the beaches!), and forgetting all about the stress of work for a week or two – (there’s a song in there somewhere). We’ve enjoyed a very eventful July, working…
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Bank invest in staff
We are most recently engaged in providing actors for Role play training for a large financial institution, (okay, bank), who are investing in the future of their staff and doing some great work in the community. Working with the training provider and his colleagues is a satisfying experience as they are so good at organising…
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Being the Bad Guy
Role playing Villains for Greater Manchester Police suspect interview training- thinking on your feet and having fun!