Our last project of the year sees Vamos Theatre Group return to Ripon
Join Vamos Theatre for an interactive workshop designed to develop skills in empathy, understanding, active listening, and trust within health and care settings. Open to all experience levels, this session explores the impact of non-verbal communication techniques, highlighting the value in fostering genuine, meaningful connections—especially with individuals living with dementia.
If you work in the care community, this workshop is for you! By replacing words with visual storytelling, the session will inspire and encourage awareness of the shared human experience in an increasingly isolating world. The aim is to help you give a voice to those who do not have one, who are, for whatever reason, unable to tell their own story.
Listening with your Eyes has proved invaluable to a wide range of professions for whom connection with the public is central, in particular those working in the Health and Care sectors: past participants include care home staff, GPs, nurses, police, family support workers, bereavement counsellors, occupational therapists, CAB advisors, teachers, receptionists and transport drivers.
Places are limited to 20 and we have a few tickets left to join us.
The workshop is led in a supportive and playful way. The aim is for everyone to learn through their own discovery; to feel for themselves, to see with their own eyes and so to empathise with others more easily.
Watch the trailer on the Vamos website here
Further details:
Lister House, Ripon, HG4 1PG
Wednesday, 20th November 2024, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Book tickets here
Ripon Theatre Festival is very grateful to The Brelms Trust and Two Ridings Community Foundation for their funding to support our outreach work with Dementia Forward.
Vamos Theatre specialise in non-verbal communication workshops. They are the UK’s leading full mask theatre company, taking its funny and fearless brand of wordless theatre across the length and breadth of the country and beyond since 2006.
They make accessible, humorous, human, and fearless work which is based on real life stories, and their productions are rooted strongly in social research. We’re delighted the Vamos Team is coming back to Ripon as part of our outreach work with Dementia Forward.
Please note that this workshop is not mask-based.
