Date:
begins Friday 3 June and finishes Monday 20 June, 2016.
Theme:
Conflict at Conferences
As playback theatre expands in the world, its practitioners come from a wider and wider range of backgrounds and views. It is inevitable that we will not always find agreement.
And is agreement even the goal?
In this exchange hub we will examine the place of conflict at conferences. We will:
- review past gatherings; and
- see what can be learned from them;
- we will investigate playback’s core values; and
- we will try and develop some guidelines for handling (not eliminating) conflict at future meetings.
We look forward to getting together with you and learning from each other.
Jonathan Fox and
Nisha Sajnani will co-ordinate these conversation hubs.
To be involved –
- sign up the conversation by registering at //iptn.boards.net on or before 3 June, 2016
- email:Jori Pitkanen a brief introduction of yourself and why you want to join this hub
For enquiry in registration: Please email: Jori Pitkanen
IPTN Vision
The IPTN provides an independent, inclusive and global platform that strengthens Playback Theatre Practice through connection and mutual influence.
A conversation hub
Building on the vision of the IPTN, we want to strengthen our community of practice by encouraging an exchange of experience and thinking about our playback theatre work. We are keen that we can continue to learn from each other through a process of telling, listening and responding.
We want to introduce the idea of an online conversation hub. Several times a year we are going to propose a subject area that we can explore together. We are not looking to find definitive answers to a question, or to find a solution to a problem, rather, the intention is to engage with each other and to listen to different ideas so that we can extend our understanding of this work that we are all involved with. In this way we may be stimulated to find some new pathways forward in our own practice.
A conversation will last for three weeks. Each time we will create a group that you will need to sign into beforehand in order to take part. We will close the group as we begin the exchange. You will be notified of the dates and the topic of each hub via email and they will posted on the website.
We are still learning how to make this as lively and participatory as possible. This time in order to reduce anonymity and bystanding (stances we want to discourage) we want everyone who signs in to introduce themselves so we know who you are, and we would like to encourage active participation so that we are creating something together.