Feel! Think! Act!: A guide to interactive drama for sexual and reproductive health with young people

Drama and creative interaction can be a good way to draw out discussion and reflection on areas that are taboo, personal or difficult to share. This toolkit looks at how readers can use interactive drama to work with young people to improve sexual and reproductive health (SRH). It is aimed at youth groups, community youth workers, community drama groups, teachers, people working in sexual and reproductive health and HIV programmes, and anyone who wants to use drama as a process of learning and action on sexual and reproductive health.

The toolkit looks at two broad ways of working:

• In specific groups using interactive drama activities and discussion to explore issues, vision how things should be, find solutions and build skills.
• Community events involving drama and discussion. These often begin with plays followed by discussion and action planning.

The toolkit describes activities which can be used in both these ways of working. Interactive and participatory tools are provided designed to help participants express their ideas and feelings, think through issues and work out solutions.

Topics include:

• Working together safely on SRH
• SRH knowledge and attitudes
• How to facilitate interactive drama and basic drama skills
• Looking at why do we behave as we do?
• Mobilising the community
• Working with groups and making a play for performance
• Monitoring and evaluation