“Helping people tell their collective stories in action.”
TGP Social Forum: Riff’d From the Headlines
This 21st century version of J.L. Moreno’s 1920’s Living Newspaper brings a local, national and global participant group together to explore topics of current events in an online format using games of challenge, sociodrama, and other action methods.
“Sociodrama is a group action method in which participants act out agreed-upon social situations spontaneously. Sociodrama helps people to express their thoughts and feelings, solve problems, and clarify their values. Rather than simply discussing social issues, sociodrama gets people out of their chairs and exploring in action topics of interest to them.”
Sociodrama: Who’s In Your Shoes?, Sternberg and Garcia, 1989
We riff on current events with several potential titles and then choose one to enact. This allows participants the widest latitude to explore the issue and increase the potential for new perspectives to arise.
Guess what current event in the US this is referring to from Jan. 2021?
…And what is your final statement and posture?
An action insight gained by a participant…
“Man, I have fought against this issue of uneven power dynamics between the “system“ and ordinary folks in this city all my adult life.
This is the first time I even dared to play the role of the other side, the oligarchy, and what I got from playing that role is: “It’s not personal! The system is just doing what it was designed to do. I can fight from a different perspective now… cause you know I gotta keep fightin’!”