Play'nTheatre Youth

Play’nTheatre (Jugar y Actuar), our weapons for peace in education
Because peace is not only the lack of war... is so much more! Is how we creatively manage our daily conflicts. Is how we understand ourselves and each other. Is how we change the world using nonviolence principles. Is how we teach and learn focused on building up a good life for all.

What:
A training workshop in Spain for youth workers and trainers about the use of theatre exercises and games in non-formaleducational contexts, that points out some of the key stones in the teaching-learning process. An extraordinary methodology based on the powers of playing and acting as opening spaces for questioning, creation, dialogue, freedom and happiness.

What for:
To contribute to the learning-teaching abilities of the participants from an inclusive and participative perspective.
To identify elements of the Play’nTheatre method as useful tools for the development of educational and social abilities in learners, from a cooperative model.

When:
November, 2014.
6 days and 36 hours of emotions, playing and learning.

Contents:
● Identification of our own feelings and the group emotional moments
● Fostering intra- and interpersonal confidence, communication abilities and group connection.
● Collective learning: the group as a knowledge creation space; the teacher as a process assistant
● The value of mistakes: from result-focused to process-focused evaluations
● Theatre playing and conflict management
● Creativity

How:
Learning by doing. Play’nTeatre is a practical training workshop in which everyone will be doing (acting, dancing, talking, moving, singing, feeling, touching, laughing and relaxing…) from the very start until the end, while respecting every one’s rhythms and moods.
Please remember to bring your comfortable clothes and shoes!
As a basis of our philosophy, we will be working from :
● personal experiences and learning by doing
● building trust in human beings, in our abilities and skills
● inductive reasoning and the collective creation of knowledge
● caring about individual and group processes.

Who:
Play’nTeatre (Jugar y Actuar) is a project that is running in Spain since 2010. Fostered by InteRed Foundation it already has trained hundreds of teachers and trainers in whole Spain in different contexts of formal and non-formal education. Proyecto Kieu NGO, a small NGO working locally with a wide-global perspective, is the coordinating organization for this project.

Both NGO behind Play’nTeatre (Jugar y Actuar) work within the frame of Human Rights and Gender Equality to help people to better understand our society and the actions needed to keep building it together.

Number of people:
Minimum of 8 participants
Maximum of 20 participants from 5 different countries

More information:
To see Play’nTeatre (Jugar y Actuar) full presentation, please visit our Prezi in here
To see a documentary that reflects a four months workshop with a group of educators in Spain, please click here

Where:
Toledo, Spain. http://goo.gl/maps/8lBzo
The ancient city of Toledo will host this activity in the frame of the 400th anniversary or its most acclaimed painter, El Greco. A town always full of charm and, specially this summer, offering lots of cultural and artistic activities. Enjoy some postal views of this beautiful city in: http://toledo.es/.

Costs:
Accommodation and food: 100% cover by the Erasmus+ program
Travel cost: according to the Erasmus+ program rules
Participation fee: 60€

IMPORTANT: We are in the process to apply for a European Union Erasmus+ FULL grant (KA1, learning mobility of individuals) to cover accommodation and travel expanses.

The closing date for Erasmus+ applications is 30th April 2014.
Please contact us if you are interested in being partner with us in this project.