POWER PLAYS
MEMORY WORKSHOP
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The Power Plays memory workshop is a focused method for immediate social change. It is developed by Danish social scientist and feminist researcher Jo Krøjer with inspiration from Frigga Haug.
In Power Plays memory workshop you use individual memories and work collectively to develop literacy on a particular topic. The topic of this manual is sexist harassment. Based on the participants personal experiences, all participants in this workshop will collectively develop their understanding of what sexist harassment is as part of a lager societal structure of oppression and inequality, how it affects employees, and what can be done to prevent it in your specific workplace.
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Everyone at your workplace, however managers and employers, are excluded for ethical reasons and safety.
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Follow our very easy guidelines! Power Plays memory work can be used separately but also work very well in combination with Forum Power Plays for maximum effect.
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The purpose of a Forum Power Plays workshop is to develop the workplace participants’ sexist harassment literacy. I.e., to engender more nuanced understandings of the power dynamics at play in workplace situations of sexist harassment. The purpose is also to empower the workplace participants to counteract workplace situations of sexist harassment by giving them the opportunity to enact solutions and change the outcome of the sexist harassment scenarios in a safe setting.
The first part of the workshop revolves around the forum play. During the play the participants:
– gain a bodily and emotional experience of the power dynamics in situations of sexism and sexist harassment
– get the opportunity to reflect on and discuss the power dynamics in situations of sexism and sexist harassment
– get the opportunity to resolve and/or change the asymmetrical power dynamics in situation of sexism and sexist harassment. Depending on how sustainable the offered solution is, the spect-actors* will be able to see the conflict unfold with a positive change
The second part of the workshop focuses on the future and how we can create a working environment which prevents sexist harassment from happening.
*Spect-actor is a combination of the words spectator and actor. The audience engages with the performance as both spectators and actors with the power to stop and change the performance
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Everyone at your workplace!
Note that the current plays are mostly oriented towards workplaces of care.
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Follow our very easy guidelines! Forum Power Plays can be used separately but also work very well in combination with Power Plays memory workshop for maximum effect.
