The application of theatre techniques in non-theatre contexts and communities. My work with theatre workshop techniques centres around the creation of safe spaces in which to express oneself and encounter others - the encounter and expression may be facilitated through theatre techniques but often take place within non-theatre "communities" and contexts. I have developed training models to enable a range of professionals to use this in their own practice.E.g. 1- Peace and reconciliation in collaboration with Co-operation Ireland, the major Peace and Reconciliation organisation in Ireland to develop this use of the arts through the design and implementation of a schools exchange programme in 2004 and 2005. 30 young actors, artists and film-makers were mentored as facilitators on the programme 2- Services marketing A collaboration with Dr Aidan Daly (NUI Galway) who is researching the application of the theatre model to services marketing. This involved a master-class with MBA and undergraduates plus a training for Aer Arran cabin crew in the use of improvisation. 3- Performance essays A performance developed from the responses of performers and others to one or more written text eg play or novel..a form well-known in the world of community plays where the performers are from the community and often it is their responses to their own recorded, remembered histories that form the bedrock of the production. Performers in France, Spain, Greece and Ireland have taken part in 4 such projects to date

Arts, Communication, Drama, Film, threater.