Role-Play Preamble

Before commencing the role plays, it is important to create a safe and welcoming learning environment where everyone feels comfortable participating in the scenarios. A fun ice-breaker activity might be a good idea to run before asking the participants to engage in the role-plays. It is also important to highlight that everyone is ‘having a go’, to be respectful of each other, and to ask participants to fully immerse themselves in the shoes of the people that they are role-playing. In the spirit of learning through action and reflection, at the conclusion of each role play it is imperative that the participants are given the opportunity to debrief with each other and other role-playing groups. Each scenario has a standard list of debrief questions that can be utilised to guide the debrief process, with the ability to include your curriculum content-specific questions. All scenarios, organisations, and people mentioned are fictional.

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