Communication · Executive Insight Brief · 428
Rehearse the resistance, not just the script
Theatre of the Oppressed turns communication problems into participatory rehearsals where proposed action can meet realistic authority, risk, and social resistance before organizations treat a solution as workable.
Premise
Theatre of the Oppressed changes the question from “What should people say?” to “What happens when they act under the power conditions shaping the problem?” Augusto Boal’s participatory system turns spectators into potential spect-actors who enter a scene, try alternatives, and meet realistic resistance. Its value is diagnostic as well as developmental: authority, retaliation, bureaucracy, loyalty, or missing resources can expose why a plausible solution fails.
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- CategoryIntervention Methods & Practices
- DomainVoice, Silence & Power
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Tool
In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.
Editorial orientation · Category
Intervention Methods & Practices
Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.
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