Participatory Communications

Abstract

This is based upon the experience of a participatory Theatre Communications Workshop organised in Hyderabad by the National office in coordination with the Hyderabad YWCA. For some time we had been thinking about the need for a wider perspective on the concept of communications within the YWCA. We felt that we should go further than the print medium into other forms of communications which would be more far reaching. The entire process of communications also, as perceived by most of us, needed to be more participatory and more instrumental in conscious-ness raising as well as being motivational. It was with this in mind that the workshop in Hyderabad was organised. We felt that a participatory theatre communications workshop would help to motivate people and involving them in the participatory process would help them to effectively utilise the methodology in the field or in their home situations.