Forum Theatre is...

An extremely versatile learning tool.
A concept developed in the 1960s by Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal. He passionately believed that theatre could serve as a forum for interactively teaching people the strategies they needed to positively change their world.
An exciting theatrical debate in which experiences and ideas are rehearsed and shared, generating both solidarity and a sense of empowerment.

With BSC, forum theatre stimulates participation so that we may share the thought provoking experiences and explore the auditory, visual and kinesthetic interactions between people in any given situation.

Having met with, discussed and understood the Client's objectives, BSC creates the scenario(s) and the characters, which needn't necessarily be within the participants' business framework (avoids the potential of getting 'too close to the bone'). In such an explored scenario, actors will demonstrate the possible behaviours of these characters. Participants will then get involved in the scenario in a number of ways:

Facilitator led feedback, discussion and debate.
Suggesting different behaviours, strategies or language for the actors to use in order to achieve a specific objective.
Direct participation through demonstration - participants replacing one or more of the actors. 

A fantastic benefit of forum theatre is that the facilitator and the participants may pause the session at any time to offer suggestions, question techniques currently being employed or to substitute themselves into the current participants' role. The participants can also jump back or skip forward to any part of the scenario they choose to practise.

In order to acheive the desired outcome, through experimentation in the safe environment created by BSC's facilitators, participants get the opportunity to direct and practice alternative behaviours and strategies that they would otherwise be unable to do or choose to avoid (perhaps due to fear or lack of confidence) in the real world.