Oamaru Public Workshop - New Perspective for Social Change

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To book, email - zoe@mindovermanner.co.nz

This workshop is designed for those people who are living or working alongside those who have cognitive or sensory processing differences.

This includes parents, caregivers ,families, educators, health and social workers, teacher aides, the school sports coaches, arts coaches and any other community members who may find this of interest.

The workshop will explore "thinking outside the square", creative or inventive thought process, social isolation and the necessity to belong. We look at how pre-existing conflict cycles are further exacerbated by society’s poor response to difference.

The workshop will cover the significance of communication, what happens if this shuts down, the power of language in working alongside difference, and the restrictions language can have for allowing new thought. This workshop will look at the potential for engaging in useful strategies and communication methods which aren’t always verbal.

"The most powerful, emotionally charged and practical professional learning I have ever experienced."

Using a team of actors and a skilled facilitator Mind Over Manner fosters shared understandings, offers strategies to build verbal and non-verbal connections and forge new awareness to create societal belonging. Our overarching aims are to promote a creative well-being orientated approach which works towards forging social inclusion.

These workshops presented in alignment with this renowned creative piece are designed to unify literary and theatre crowds and members of the wider public, educators, health and social professionals, front liners and whanau.

Themes are lifted from Red Leap Theatre's production of Owls Do Cry.
Get $10 off your ticket to Red Leap Theatre's production of Owls Do Cry when you enrol!

This workshop is made possible with the generous support of The Lindsay Foundation, CCS Disability Action Waitaki, Red Leap Theatre and Oamaru Opera House.