Roleplay? what is it? what is it not? what are its benefits? Is it just for children? Is it also for learning?
role playing
noun
noun: rôle play; noun: role play
noun
noun: rôle play; noun: role play
- 1.
PSYCHOLOGY
the acting out or performance of a particular role, either consciously (as a technique in psychotherapy or training) or unconsciously, in accordance with the perceived expectations of society as regards a person's behaviour in a particular context. - 2.
participation in a role-playing game.
Role-playing refers to the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role. While the Oxford English Dictionary offers a definition of role-playing as "the changing of one's behaviour to fulfill a social role",[1] in the field of psychology, the term is used more loosely in four senses:
Amusement - Many children participate in a form of role-playing known as make believe, wherein they adopt certain roles such as doctor and act out those roles in character. Sometimes make believe adopts an oppositional nature, resulting in games such as cops and robbers.
Entertainment Historical re-enactment has been practiced by adults for millennia. The ancient Romans, Han Chinese, and medieval Europeans all enjoyed occasionally organizing events in which everyone pretended to be from an earlier age, and entertainment appears to have been the primary purpose of these activities. Within the 20th century historical re-enactment has often been pursued as a hobby.
Improvisational theatre dates back to the Commedia dell'Arte tradition of the 16th century. Modern improvisational theatre began in the classroom with the "theatre games" of Viola Spolin and Keith Johnstone in the 1950s. Viola Spolin, who was one of the founders the famous comedy troupe Second City, insisted that her exercises were games, and that they involved role-playing as early as 1946. She accurately judged role-playing in the theatre as rehearsal and actor training, or the playing of the role of actor versus theatre roles, but many now use her games for fun in their own right.
Training
Interior cockpit of a twinjet flight simulator
Main article: Roleplay simulation
Role-playing may also refer to role training where people rehearse situations in preparation for a future performance and to improve their abilities within a role. The most common examples are occupational training role-plays, educational role-play exercises, and certain militarywargames.
Simulation -One of the first uses of computers was to simulate reality around its participants in order to role-play the flying of aircraft. flight simulators used computers to solve the equations of flight and train future pilots. The army began full-time role-playing simulations with soldiers using computers both within full scale training exercises and for training in numerous specific tasks under wartime conditions. Examples include weapon firing, vehicle simulators, and control station mock-ups.
References Wikimedia Commons has media related to Roleplay simulations.
- To refer to the playing of roles generally such as in a theatre, or educational setting;
- To refer to taking a role of an existing character or person and acting it out with a partner taking someone else's role, often involving different genres of practice;
- To refer to a wide range of games including role-playing video game, play-by-mail games and more;
- To refer specifically to role-playing games.[2]
Amusement - Many children participate in a form of role-playing known as make believe, wherein they adopt certain roles such as doctor and act out those roles in character. Sometimes make believe adopts an oppositional nature, resulting in games such as cops and robbers.
Entertainment Historical re-enactment has been practiced by adults for millennia. The ancient Romans, Han Chinese, and medieval Europeans all enjoyed occasionally organizing events in which everyone pretended to be from an earlier age, and entertainment appears to have been the primary purpose of these activities. Within the 20th century historical re-enactment has often been pursued as a hobby.
Improvisational theatre dates back to the Commedia dell'Arte tradition of the 16th century. Modern improvisational theatre began in the classroom with the "theatre games" of Viola Spolin and Keith Johnstone in the 1950s. Viola Spolin, who was one of the founders the famous comedy troupe Second City, insisted that her exercises were games, and that they involved role-playing as early as 1946. She accurately judged role-playing in the theatre as rehearsal and actor training, or the playing of the role of actor versus theatre roles, but many now use her games for fun in their own right.
Training
Interior cockpit of a twinjet flight simulator
Main article: Roleplay simulation
Role-playing may also refer to role training where people rehearse situations in preparation for a future performance and to improve their abilities within a role. The most common examples are occupational training role-plays, educational role-play exercises, and certain militarywargames.
Simulation -One of the first uses of computers was to simulate reality around its participants in order to role-play the flying of aircraft. flight simulators used computers to solve the equations of flight and train future pilots. The army began full-time role-playing simulations with soldiers using computers both within full scale training exercises and for training in numerous specific tasks under wartime conditions. Examples include weapon firing, vehicle simulators, and control station mock-ups.
References Wikimedia Commons has media related to Roleplay simulations.
- "Definition of Role Playing from the Oxford English Dictionary". Askoxford.com. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
- Rilstone, Andrew. "Role-Playing Games: An Overview" 1994, Inter*Action #1".
Roleplaying is used in highly dynamic classrooms. We have long known that to act something out gives you a chance to be in "Someone Else's Moccasins" It gives children and adults the opportunity to learn while being active, to learn while having fun, to be something or someone or respond in character to an act a person that they would not normaly interact with or have a chance to respond to. It can also pose moral dilemmas in a stage or format that is not destructive to the human beings present. Shakespeare said it best:
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
When we roleplay it offers us a chance to step back into time, to recreate time, to enhance time, to fix time, to emphasize with a time and perchance..with the greatest of all hope to heal a time.....when we do not repeat the mistakes from the past it shows that we have learned from the gift that, that great play has offered to us, roleplay is safe play or it should be...so a facilitator a good one is required to assist in the act of roleplay. Roleplay can bring awareness to language, wisdom, lack of wisdom, strength, weakness, areas of needed growth, historical knowledge, empathy, dealing with ego, facing archetypes, dealing with shadow, taking a risk or making a choice with less disastrous consequences.
It can heal...deep, deep traumas, unshed cultural grief, finding pride again, finding hope, and remembering...RE-MEMEBERING can also be the gifts. It can also be fun...what fun?
But I am an adult I am not supposed to have fun!!!!
Whoever ...told....you ...that....LIED!
For more reading on Roleplay as teaching, therapy, etc...see these links
http://imet.csus.edu/imet3/odell/portfolio/grartifacts/Lit%20review.pdf
http://condor.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/~mr9643/Benifits%20of%20Role%20Play.htm
http://www.trainingmag.com/3-benefits-making-role-play-part-training
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_therapy
http://creativeteacherette.blogspot.de/2012/11/simulations-and-role-plays.html
http://www.theescapist.com/rwrpg/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVeZz5QnEFE Carl Jung-seeing an archetype
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ4Uyf5X6Sw Gestalt Therapy- Roleplay therapy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXG5OL8INpU Bert Hellinger - Constellation therapy *
(this video shows a simple one with only imagining the person there, but in very active session, participants take the place for the people or person be facilitated to hold the spaces and to be acted on or moved by the person, stepping in as parents, elders, mother, father, brother, even a situation. It for me was the most dramatic roleplay work I have ever been in with the most impact to healing.)
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
When we roleplay it offers us a chance to step back into time, to recreate time, to enhance time, to fix time, to emphasize with a time and perchance..with the greatest of all hope to heal a time.....when we do not repeat the mistakes from the past it shows that we have learned from the gift that, that great play has offered to us, roleplay is safe play or it should be...so a facilitator a good one is required to assist in the act of roleplay. Roleplay can bring awareness to language, wisdom, lack of wisdom, strength, weakness, areas of needed growth, historical knowledge, empathy, dealing with ego, facing archetypes, dealing with shadow, taking a risk or making a choice with less disastrous consequences.
It can heal...deep, deep traumas, unshed cultural grief, finding pride again, finding hope, and remembering...RE-MEMEBERING can also be the gifts. It can also be fun...what fun?
But I am an adult I am not supposed to have fun!!!!
Whoever ...told....you ...that....LIED!
For more reading on Roleplay as teaching, therapy, etc...see these links
- Role-Playing as a Teaching Strategy
http://imet.csus.edu/imet3/odell/portfolio/grartifacts/Lit%20review.pdf
- Benefits of Roleplay
http://condor.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/~mr9643/Benifits%20of%20Role%20Play.htm
- 3 BENEFITS OF MAKING ROLE-PLAY PART OF TRAININGRole-playing provides a safe environment to encounter different scenarios for the first time, which builds confidence in team members that can help them in their day-to-day roles.
http://www.trainingmag.com/3-benefits-making-role-play-part-training
- Drama Therapy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_therapy
- Using Roleplay to stimulate writing
http://creativeteacherette.blogspot.de/2012/11/simulations-and-role-plays.html
- Role play coming to a classroom near you!!!
http://www.theescapist.com/rwrpg/
- Archetypes, roleplaying through them, and understanding them, age old drama forms - looks with Carl Jung, Bert Hallinger, etc... videos for you to look over and make your own thoughts on. Nothing is more valuable then what is experienced so, as a facilitator I am offering these as good places to understand the human deeper and how do we find "us" and how do we find "me" and how we do we find "We".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVeZz5QnEFE Carl Jung-seeing an archetype
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ4Uyf5X6Sw Gestalt Therapy- Roleplay therapy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXG5OL8INpU Bert Hellinger - Constellation therapy *
(this video shows a simple one with only imagining the person there, but in very active session, participants take the place for the people or person be facilitated to hold the spaces and to be acted on or moved by the person, stepping in as parents, elders, mother, father, brother, even a situation. It for me was the most dramatic roleplay work I have ever been in with the most impact to healing.)