An Empty Room, Endless Potential: Preparing a Space for Learning
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An empty space always feels full of possibility to me. ✨
Another Monday, another beginning. Every time I walk into an empty space, I get that same little spark of excitement knowing what's to come, because I can already feel what could happen there. The conversations, the growth, the learning, the shifts.
And this week feels especially meaningful, because I’m teaching one of my favourite topics: drama as a tool for inclusion.
Today, we began with what is in my opinion the most effective way to explore drama. Games!
For me, games are never just about playing. They’re a way in.
✨A way to learn more deeply about ourselves.
✨A way to notice social dynamics.
✨A way to open up conversations that go a little further than usual.
In my work with drama, it helps people move beyond what “should” be, and start exploring what could be instead.
We already spoke about some of the challenges these educators face in their day to day. A rising black-and-white way of thinking when it comes to politics... gender norms. A damaging underlying school culture of bullying... A hesitation to share individual stories, essential for obtaining a work certificate...
Drama is able to delve into each of these issues.
✨It highlights the grey spaces, as we realize when we put ourselves in the shoes of others that nothing is really black-and-white.
✨It helps us recognize, from a place of empathy and our own emotions, how it feels to be powerless, and how we have the power to change that.
✨It provides different avenues for sharing stories, through creativity, through images, through other stories...
What if we designed spaces where more people could belong?
What if play helped us get there?
When I look at this image, I see that it's filled with potential of what's yet to come. What do you see?
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