A new training tool for medical professionals
Utilising actors and healthcare professionals as training tools, Healthcare Interact provides a safe and constructive environment in which healthcare professionals can experiment with different approaches to patient and staff interaction, without judgement or expectation.
Healthcare Interact is a corporate roleplay company devised and facilitated by Dr Adam Porter BDS BSc. (Hons) and delivered with professional actor Hannah O'Leary, along with other acting colleagues.
Adam Porter acts under the stage-name Adam Timms (Equity name).
WHAT IS CORPORATE ROLEPLAY?
Corporate roleplay is a method of training professionals by presenting "real-life" situations in their workplace. Utilising professional actors a combination of several techniques are used in corporate roleplay:
1. Communication Skills exercises and drama-based games can illustrate significant areas for discussion and improvement.
2. Forum Theatre involves typical encounters being performed for the team by the actors. The professionals can stop, start, pause and rewind the scenarios altering what is said, and what is done by the actors, bringing the scenarios to a satisfactory conclusion. The professionals may even step into the scene and take the place of the actors if they so wish.
3.Sketches are mini-plays performed by the actors to illustrate a key point, or provide a starting point for a focussed discussion.
4.Interactive Roleplay involves actors directly interacting with professionals in a scenario developed to illustrate a key area of discussion. This a safe environment for professionals to try out new communication techniques.
