Managing work-related stress through corporate theatre methodology: A pedagogical research-training pathway

Abstract

Traditional training methods – mostly used in informational and awareness-raising interventions – fail to significantly affect processes of socialization and organizational change and the management/prevention of work-related stress risk. Corporate Theatre, can represent a training methodology capable of interconnecting work practices and training processes, promoting the emergence of professionals’ emotional experiences, and encouraging processes of deconstructing/restructuring mental representations with a transformative function. Against this backdrop, the article presents, analyses, and discusses a research-training course on work-related stress management in five organizations in the Roman territory. The results confirm that an experiential training such as Corporate Theatre may promote changes in habitual behaviours and produce lasting effects over time, particularly by stimulating the creation of shared languages to identify the situations that may generate stress as well as the development of collaborative forms of organizational wellbeing

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