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Sticks & Stones: A Do-It-Yourself Anti-Bullying Workshop A step-by-step guide to creating and facilitating your own InterPlay anti-bullying workshop for students of all ages! Empower young people to find solutions to bullying problems Stimulate dialogue about bullying and teasing Enhance teamwork, leadership, and understanding Engage your group in a fun, exciting workshop! Embracing Diversity: A Do-It-Yourself Diversity Training Workshop This e-book is a complete guide to creating and running your own InterPlay diversity training workshop for your business, school, or community organization. Enhance your group’s creativity, build stronger relationships, and improve problem-solving skills Engage in meaningful dialogue about the ways in which diversity enhances your organization’s ability to function effectively and with energy Find solutions to the unique problems and challenges facing your group Develop and enhance trusting relationships, resulting in enhanced teamwork and greater efficiency for your organization
Books and Resources
These books are essential for anyone who wants to learn more about interactive or applied theatre. More InterPlay Book Suggestions

Games for Actors and Non--Actors by Augusto Boal - This incredible book details thousands of theatre games and exercises useful for dialogue, rehearsal, team building, and just for fun. If you only get one book, this is tne one to get!	Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher's Handbook by Viola Spolin - Spolin, the "mother of The Second City," has wonderful insight on using theatre to teach young children life skills. Many of the games are appropriate for adults, too!	Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal - This book describes Boal's "Theatre of the Oppressed," which was developed to inspire dialogue and social change.	Acting Out: The Workbook : A Guide to the Development and Presentation of Issue-Oriented, Audience-Interactive, Improvisational Theatre by Mario Cossa et al -This book gives scene outlines, ideas, and techniques from the Acting Out program for teens.


Theatre for Community Conflict and Dialogue : The Hope Is Vital Training Manual by Michael Rohd - Easy to read with clear instructions, this book is ideal for youth workers, educators, and school counselors	Learning Through Theatre: New Perspectives on Theatre in Education, Tony Jackson, ed. This collection of essays highlights the strengths of Theatre in Education (TIE) with a global perspective.	Applied Theatre: Creating Transformative Encounters in the Community by Philip Taylor - strategies for using theatre to raise awareness, propose alternatives, provide healing, and implement community change.	Training to Imagine: Practical Improvisational Theatre Techniques to Enhance Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership, and Learning by Kat Koppett - this book applies improv methodologies of the theater to developing business skills.
Interactive theatre, arts, and organizational resources
Act for Action - Act for Action - Theater for All is an organization dedicated to the use of theater for education and social justice. Jeannie LaFrance, Act for Action's director, has over 20 years experience integrating different theatrical disciplines including: traditional, improvisation, social activism, educational, Theater of the Oppressed and drama therapy.
Applied and Interactive Theatre Guide - A resource for those who use theatre techniques for other or more than arts or entertainment purposes, and for those whose theatre styles incorporate other than traditional presentation styles.
Americans for the Arts - The nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America.
CreativeClass.org - A website focusing on Richard Florida's best-selling book, The Rise of the Creative Class: And How Its Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life, The Rise of the Creative Class, which "gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today — and where we might be headed. In a book that weaves a storytelling with a massive body of research, Richard Florida traces the fundamental theme that runs through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity in our economy ."
IDEA (International Dialects of English Archive) - Created in 1998 as a repository of primary source recordings for actors and other artists in the performing arts. Its home is the Department of Theatre and Film at the University Of Kansas, in Lawrence, KS, USA, while associate editors form a global network.
Indiana Civil Rights Commission - An important societal influence working to eliminate illegal discrimination in Indiana. The CRC enforces the Indiana civil rights laws and provides quality education and service to the public in an effort to ensure equal opportunity for all Hoosiers and visitors to the state of Indiana.
International Theatre of the Oppressed Organisation - an organization dedicated to helping all Theatre of the Oppressed centers to develop themselves. Lots of links, information, and a wonderful forum for discussion.
Lafayette Transitional Housing Center - Opened in 1990, after the Lafayette community identified gaps in local services, Lafayette Transitional Housing Center, Inc. began providing housing and supportive services to homeless families with children. The agency is guided by a 15 member volunteer board of directors dedicated to the emerging needs of the homeless in our community.
Paul Meier Dialect Services - Paul Meier has been teaching dialects for over 20 years in the U.S.A. and in his native England, coaching some of the biggest names in movies and over one hundred plays and musicals. And he's helped hundreds who needed "English as a Second Language" or wanted to "lose their accent." With his long experience as a voice-over artist (the voice of Walmart's Smiley in 2003!) and as an actor in books-on-tape -- his reading of Ayn Rand's Anthem is now out on CD and cassette -- he's uniquely qualified to help others in these fields.
Sites for Teachers
Sojourn Theatre Company - An innovative theatre company in Portland, Oregon, founded by Michael Rohd, author of Theatre for Community, Conflict, and Dialogue: the Hope is Vital Training Manual.
START - Georgia - World Learning established its office in Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia, in February 2002, and since then has been very active in planning and implementing a wide variety of training events. InterPlay Artistic Director Katherine Burke led a training program in Georgia on advocating justice and tolerance through the arts in August, 2003.
World Learning - The only international organization with both academic and project capabilities dedicated to promoting international education, social justice, and world peace.

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