Kylie Gillman
Manager
Open Enrolment Programs
Executive Education
Melbourne Business School
Several Local Governments use Melbourne Playback as part of community consultation or staff training events. We regularly perform for community service organisations like Anglicare, SCOPE and Yooralla to help celebrate their staff and the work they do within the community.
There are many ways we can work within your organisation and community:- Entertainment, Celebration & Team-Building
- Community-Building
- Community Consultation
- Staff Training & Development Programs
- Managing Change
- Conferences & Seminars
- Interactive Workshops
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Entertainment, Celebration & Team-Building
Melbourne Playback performances are a dynamic way to bring staff and stakeholders together to celebrate the story of your community organisation and have a laugh together. The interactive nature of our work is sure to capture people's attention and affirm the sense of team and community within your organisation. We open up empathy and the active listening and improvisation skills displayed by our professional performing ensemble are an inspiring example of teamwork at its best.
Community-Building
Through the sharing of participant's stories, a Melbourne Playback performances creates a bridge which makes one person's experience accessible to others. We generate a reflective dialogue and emerging themes reveal to a community what lives at its heart. This process can also help the group articulate a shared vision of what lies ahead.
Community Consultation
Melbourne Playback performances provide a forum where a community can find their voice. All perspectives are valued and often, through expert facilitation, the person who rarely speaks will share a story. The process is truly reflective, one where hidden truths are uncovered and real transformation occurs.
Staff Training & Development Programs
Melbourne Playback performances are an excellent reflective tool within training and development programs. See our corporate training page for more information.
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Managing Change
Melbourne Playback performances are a positive way for people to reflect on their thoughts and feelings through periods of change. It is often difficult for those within an organisational culture to see the culture for what it is. Our actors create a mirror for the group which is non-threatening and engaging. Individual stories have wider resonance for the audience and group members are often surprised and delighted that they are not alone in their experiences and perceptions. This can be an important step towards the forging of a shared vision.
Conferences & Seminars
More than entertainment, Melbourne Playback performances spice-up and support the content of conferences by breaking the ice and cracking open ideas at it's beginning, providing a re-energising and reflective tool mid-way through or by tying the conference themes together at its conclusion.
See our Conferences page for more information.
Interactive Workshops
Drawing on the methodologies of actor training and Playback Theatre, our performers and facilitators offer interactive workshops that can be delivered in conjunction with a performance or as a stand-alone skill building workshop. See our workshops menu for more details.