YWCA2025-04-282025-04-281985YWCA. (1985). Participatory Communications. Programme Information Bulletin YWCA of India.http://192.9.200.215:4000/handle/123456789/525The participatory theatre communications workshop in Hyderabad aimed to engage participants in community theatre as a tool for social change. The focus was on raising awareness, developing basic skills, and fostering self-confidence, creativity, and motivation. Through a series of unstructured exercises, role-plays, and group discussions, the workshop emphasized learning through personal experiences. The ultimate goal was to empower participants to work effectively within their communities and use theatre to address local issues.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.enParticipatory TheatreCommunity EngagementMotivationSelf-confidenceLocal IssuesTechnical Report