Role Play Actors can be used in all kinds of trainings where real-life situations are simulated so that people can practice with them. These include, but are not limited to, in-company trainings for professionals or students for instance. Whether you wish to practice your communication skills with an aggressive client, a disturbed patient, a dictatorial manager, or an overly helpful colleague; a Role Play Actor can provide you with a safe practice environment.

A safe practice environment needs to meet a few requirements:

• Relevant

• Appreciative

• Playful

• Open

• Creative

Relevance means that a training aligns with the participants' frame of reference. Therefore, I intend to become acquainted with the team and organisation in advance of a training.

Appreciation means that every participant is being valued for their contribution to the team and training. Everyone has knowledge and skills, and I wish every individual to feel appreciated for their particular abilities and contributions.

Playful means that the atmosphere allows for trying out new things without fear of making mistakes or being ridiculed.

Open relates to playfulness as waves relate to surfboards; an open mode, where free thinking and acting is possible, is a necessity to be playful. No ‘nay-saying’ allowed!

Creativity follows naturally from an open and playful environment.

In a world that becomes increasingly complex, the skill to communicate effectively becomes ever more important. Whether we communicate on a content or a relationship level, we communicate continuously; we cannot not communicate.

Most of the time we are not very conscious of how and what we communicate. Think about it: not only do we communicate through language, but we communicate with our whole body. By means of our bodily posture, the way we walk, physical gestures, facial expressions, tone and volume of our voice, tempo of speaking, articulation, and intelligibility, and even the clothes we wear, one can almost instantly recognize the mood we’re in.

It is therefore a sincere gift to become acquainted with one’s own ways of communication. Because the better we know our mostly automatic reactions to various circumstances, the easier it becomes to change course. Moreover, the better we know ourselves, the easier we understand others. That is why the Tao Te Ching says:

“Knowing others is intelligence,
Knowing yourself is true wisdom.”

One of the quickest ways to increase one’s self-knowledge is through experiential learning. And one of the most challenging ways of experiential learning is to play out difficult situations with a Role Play Actor.

Are you up for the challenge?
Then don't hesitate to get in touch!