The drama at the heart of your safety programme
To the right is a list of themes which are addressed in our plays and workshops, all focussing on behaviour. All our work considers the impact of human factors on safety. To view a synopsis and summary of plays in each theme, select a theme from the list.
Each play acts as a driver to any interactive workshop or conference program. These events can last from 45 minutes to a full day or more. The structure and dynamic of the programme can be tailored precisely to your needs.
Options range from:
- 'bite-sized' modules
- small, intensive, skills and awareness workshops
- full-blown conference session
- one to two day 'learning journey'
Shared understanding of the safety culture at work is critical to any organisation in which safety plays a central role.
Q. How do you achieve this?
A. By showing what the safety culture looks like.
That's why Shell, BP, Balfour Beatty and Magnox use us - to reflect the reality of 'the way we do things round here', through theatre.
When you can see what's wrong, you can put it right.
Interactive Techniques
In addition to scripted plays, AKT uses a range of high impact, interactive techniques to engage, entertain and challenge the audience:
Forum Theatre (stop/start)
In Forum Theatre we ask our participants to get involved with the action and on occasion even step into the picture itself. Our actors play out a part of a scene we have already witnessed. We then ask our participants to stop the action, give live feedback or coaching to our characters on their behaviour and then continue to support them as they test out these new behaviours. This helps participants make the important transition from identifying "What we need to do" to "How we need to do it".
Hot Seating
The characters in the play make themselves available to the audience in order that difficult behaviours can be explored in conversation. Attendees can ask anything of the characters, and the responses are always engaging, frequently revealing and sometimes very moving. This can help us identify the drivers and motivators for the characters' behaviour and help us understand how to help them (and ourselves) change.
Skills Practice (role-play)
Role-play or skills practice offers the chance for participants to practise real behaviours and receive constructive feedback in a small-group, safe environment. We can design skills practice sessions around your specific needs.
Play for Today
We ask participants in groups to devise a short piece of drama taken from their own experience of a real incident and the behaviours that contributed to that. They then devise another short piece which demonstrates the behaviours that could have prevented that incident. Fun, and at the same time conveying important and very personal messages about safety behaviours.