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Five good reasons for Workshops are licved: ee 1. To practice sxills 2. To understand your epponcnts 3. To bputid up rerale 4, To get rid of tensions 5 5. To make for more denocracy. "“ Anvelves two or more "pole-playing" or "socio-draza persons spontantously acting out roles in the context of real problems which the group faces. Tne leader cefines the problon, sete the ecene, casts the characters, comaences the action.and’ ends it when the point has been made. Several "scenarios" of role playing are included in the manual. mt : Ore example concerns an eviction. A group of civil rights deronstrators is blocking access to a tenenent to prevent a constable from evicting @ tenant who has been participatiny in a rent strike. Tne constable and several citizens urge the crsup to obey the law end move out of the way; then the constable and the police officer threaten the group with arrest if they do not nove. The workshop leader then discusses the above set of facts with the participants and might ask questions such as: How do the Gemonetrétors respond to the other citisens and ta the cs How de they respond to the officer? A cact is then selected of three or four demonc : tore, two or three citizens, 2 constable, one or more police ce: .cers who then act out the parte assigned them. Other sample scenarios are “The Congressnan," ‘ Barber Shop," "The Magistrate's Court," "The Cell," "Tre Line," and “The March." -li-