The sessions have been going on at the Wesley Hall Tuesday Drop In (a service for Refugees and Asylum Seekers) for six weeks now and I'm getting a steady number of participants each week - between eight and eleven, which is a good number. I work in collaboration with the English Teacher, which gives me more potential for participants as well as support and gives him support as well, along with practical techniques for encouraging communication skills.
We do a mixture of warm up exercises and basic Drama skills, sometimes creating scenes, other times using different stimuli to start off conversation and encourage communication.
It's one of the nicest groups-adults are quite often surprised by what they can do when they have the opportunity-and although sometimes exercises take longer than they would do with a group who all shared one language, the fact that everyone is from a different cultural background adds interest. They learn from one another and are keen to help one another as well.
I am learning a lot from them, too.
No comments:
Post a Comment