Theater Facilitator

Job requirements & experience required:

B.A/M.A with courses in Theatre & Psychology or approved equivalents.

Previous work experience in a clinical, rehabilitative, or educational setting.

Direct experience with the therapeutic process is highly desirable.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

Encouraging participants to express themselves, their experiences, and emotions, through role-play, mime, improvisation, scripted drama, puppetry, storytelling, or movement.

Ensure the use of good facilitation skills that make the children and adolescents feel comfortable and enhance their participation and personal development.

Ensure that children and adults are not exposed to any form of harm or stress during the activity and that they feel safe and respected.

Positively interact with children and adults and encourage them to express their needs and ensure their safety.

Recommending and referring a particular case to the best course of action to the Program Director.

Develop a detailed working plan of the sessions that will be provided at the beginning of the Cycle.

Conduct theatre sessions with children and adolescents.

Focus on assisting children in improving social bonding, allowing for emotions to be explored in a safe space, developing the emotional and cognitive skills to deal with a complicated world, and helping them to cope with emotions and cope with stress.

Fill out the lesson plan form and submit it to the AEP Monitor.

Refer to the AEP Assistant on matters related to materials needed and logistics.

Ensure the achievement of the sessions’ objectives.

Update the attendance sheet for each session.

Submit a final report after the end of the Cycle.