Imaginative Interviews: 'A Psychodramatic Warm-up for Developing Role-Playing Skills
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Elementary skills in role playing are the basis for learning how to do psychodrama. This article describes a technique for developing such skills, beginning with a more playful approach and gradually leading to dealing with more meaningful material. Working in dyads, class or workshop participants can take turns interviewing one another with one of the pair assuming an imaginary role. The interviewer uses the metaphor of being a "talk show host" as an aid to draw out what it's like to be in the partner's role.
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