OUR METHODS: The body does not lie.
Both IN-Justice Training Intensives immerse social justice agents in embodied equity training through Theatre of the Oppressed tools, which we can all use as building blocks for reciprocal engagement and equitable change processes – in the arts sector and beyond.
Embodied learning:
Theatre of the Oppressed:
Within these methodologies:
Embodied learning:
- Embodied learning centers the experiential (earned) knowledge and capabilities of people who experience oppression and equalizes the power imbalance in the global social justice community.
- Embodied learning complements intellectual knowledge with emotional wisdom.
- Embodied learning is a highly participative, multi-versal approach that supports rich inclusivity, by welcoming and accommodating multiple differences and utilizing accessible communication and engagment methods.
Theatre of the Oppressed:
- Theatre of the Oppressed was developed by Brazilian artist and activist, Augusto Boal, as an accessible form of Popular Education, and is therefore a form of Popular Theatre, in that it is a participatory practice that fosters cooperative forms of interaction among participants.
- In Theatre of the Oppressed, theatre is emphasized not as spectacle or entertainment, but as a multi-versal language designed to analyze and act against personal, social and structural barriers.
- Theatre of the Oppressed provides a fully accessible and pragmatic model through which to explore and transform the power relations that give rise to oppression.
Within these methodologies:
- All participate in and contribute equally to the production of knowledge and continuous dialogue;
- The learners are the subject and not the object of the process; and
- The goal is to liberate participants from the internal and external oppressions that stymie our ability to act.
