DRAMATRIX's Methodology and Approach
"Training' implies putting skills into people, when actually we should be developing people from the inside out, beyond skills, ie., facilitating learning."
(A.W.George)
DRAMATRIX’s Approach
We focus on three key areas that affect communication:
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Attitude
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Behaviour
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Skills
It is also important to think of communication in terms of these three elements:
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Rational
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Emotional
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Physical
* Our training programs generally focus on three or four key areas in order to get real results with the training that the participants can use in their work.
* With the help of our training programs the participants will experience a change in behavior, and as a result, their managers will experience an improvement in their performance.
The reason why we find that this is the right approach in corporate training:
Our institutional education is full of theories from elementary school to University; we are forced by the system to learn from books, and we are measured according to our reading and writing skills first, and then according to the capacity of our memory. In our educational system there is provision for improving our "people skills", our behavior, for how to live and work effectively and in harmony with others. Therefore, DRAMATRIX's training programs do not approach the participants from the "mental side", but from the "behavior side". We do not challenge the participants' thoughts with theories; we rather challenge their reactions with personal experiences.
DRAMATRIX's techniques and methodology derive from a relatively new source: drama and theatre.
Using theatre workshop techniques, we help participants overcome barriers and expand their range of expression: experimenting with communication tools, developing spontaneity and creativity. Our training programs are highly practical: participants use a variety of exercises to feel how new skills can be applied.
* Our goal is: "to make it real!" - to shock and surprise the participants. We put them into situations with the help of actors in order to make them really experience what it feels like to be on receiving end of the interactions.
* By holding a mirror to them, we make the participants aware of the impact they make on their environment (on their colleagues, bosses, subordinates and clients) and also of the reactions their behavior can evoke in other people.
* Having this background knowledge about themselves, now the participants can start to work on the execution part: "How to do it right." In this phase the participants can try themselves out in role-plays, again with the participation of actors, thus making the role-plays as similar to a real life situations as possible.





















