wolf + water arts company

5-7 December 2007 Edinburgh

A three day course on using drama and theatre techniques with young people who have sexually concerning behaviour

A three day training course on using music & drama with people with learning difficulties.

Following on from our “Valuing People Team” film, this project has been training up 5 adults with learning difficulties to work with community organisations (such as the Police & Doctors) & businesses on awareness around the issues involved in the Valuing People Paper

Semat is a youth theatre company based in Jakarta who, supported by search for common ground, came together to work on issues of communal and inter-communal conflict. We were asked to provide training in developing and devising theatre intervention work to empower semat to work within their own communities in developing peace building activities.

Aceh in northern sumatra was one of the regions most affected by the 2004 tsunami. Prior to the devastation of the wave the area had been in the grips of a thirty year conflict which saw the region divided into sections which were controlled by either government or anti government (GAM) forces and factions. The tsunami to some extent signalled a new phase and lessening of tensions, clashes were replaced by cooperation.

This project, with the support of the Norwegian Government, brings participants from across the Former Yugoslavia together for intense courses on conflict management development issues with particular reference to the Balkans situations.

Fredskorpset is a norwegian organisation that promotes international development through professional exchange programmes in which “south” participants from south america, africa & south east asia do an extended “job swap” with a norwegian from a partner organisation.

Drama to Confront Offending Behaviour teaches simple group work & drama techniques to challenge the habitual thoughts & thinking disorders that offenders use to excuse & justify their behaviour. Drama, as an engaging active process, is ideal for working with offenders with limited verbal or literacy skills who may switch off in more traditional “flip chart based” courses.

A series of twice yearly week long residential training courses with trainee teachers from the university of Skopje, to, over a number of years, teach & train them to develop a whole curiculum & approach to education that took into account Macedonia’s ethnic tensions, & to use school & education as a way of addressing some of these issues.

A twice a year five day block of training & supervising psychologists from the “little star” centre in grozny, chechnya, who work with children traumatised by the war there.