ToT Improdrama 3.0

/// Our goal:

Our goal is to promote the nonformal education its methodology, tools and approaches for youth education, supporting the youth empowerment and increasing the engagement of young people in their classes or educational activities and increase the efficiency of their learning process.

Our idea to reach this goal is to continuously provide the training opportunities for youth educators, youth workers and teachers in field of non-formal education, and it’s diverse methodology.

/// AIM: The project IMPRODRAMA 3.0 aims to promote and integrate theatrical methodology as nonformal educational methodology for youth empowerment in youth organisation, schools and universities.

/// Objectives:

• Developing competences of participants in use of theatre methodology as  non-formal education tools for youth empowerment 
• Developing competences of participant in using theatre methodology especially physical theatre, mime theatre and visual theatre
• Introducing to participants the values and principles of experiential learning as nonformal education approach for youth empowerment
• Providing the possibility to create, develop, implement and improve the educational activities for youth empowerment based on theatre methodology
• Discussing and developing the ways of integration the theatre methodology as non-formal education activities to the formal education system.
• Increasing the soft skills, language skills and competences of participants.
• Promoting social inclusion, solidarity, tolerance and intercultural dialogue.
• Promoting the Erasmus+ programme and Youthpass as recognition of competences gained during the NFE activities.

/// Methods: During the training participants will take part in the workshops based on non-formal educational methodology as working in pairs, groups, brainstorming, reflecting, performing, acting, team building, self-reflection, group reflections, role-play. 3 Main methodology of the training would be: Theatre activities, Mime and physical theatre, Visual theatre. 

Theatre activities focusing on acting developing new character, new stories, sharing the emotions, expressing emotions and feeling through the movement and expression. Developing sense of power and the choice to act and to create the act, as empowering the participants to take active role in the creating process.

Mime and physical theatre methods will guide participants to the awareness of their own body, to understand the body language and their capacity in moving their bodies, reflection on body language and expression, creation of the story without the words only with the expression understanding the wide spectrum of understanding the movement without the words. Participants would exercise, practice their movements, expression, creating the characters through the movements and gestures ,getting into the shoes of different people. 

Visual theatre methodology will guide participants in animating objects to create worlds, stories, characters conveying a universal message readable by the audience. Viewers can identify themselves in the stories presented, relate to the author, who searches in order to express their feelings, emotions, needs, fears, stories. Through the visual theatre, viewers and creators can get familiar with the process of working with material, explore beauty and fragility together with stability and volatility as metaphors.

/// Learninig approach : The leading learning approach during the training course would be experiential learning (D. Kolb), participants will go through the learning process which is following the cycle of experience, analyse, conceptualization and practise. 

/// Activities: Generally the activities would have three stages: exploring main methods (theatre activities, mime, physical and visual theatre), learning about Non-Fromal Education (the principles of NFE, how to create the educational workshops, feedback), practise phase (developing and implementing the workshops by participants).

Daily there would be at least 6 hours of workshops and time for reflection. (everyday we will start workshops at 9:30 and finish around 19 o’clock, with 2 coffee breaks and lunch break).