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.