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Ree acee ee a re | Five good reasons for workshops are listed: “Bt 1. To wractice skills Pl 2. To understand your efponenta 3. To builded up rale kh. To get rid of tensions ‘SS, To make for more democracy. "Role-playing" or "socio-drana" invelves tus or more persons epontantoucly acting out roles in the contezt of real problems which the group faces. Tié leader cefines the probloen, sete the scene, cas sts the characters, commences the action and’ ends it when the point has been made. Several "scenarios" of role playing are included in the manual. : Ore example concerns an eviction. & group of civil right deronstrators if blocking access to a ten nenent to prevent a constatle from evicting a tenant wi FS ho has been participating in @ rent atrike. The constable and severel cititens urge the erpup to obey the law and move out of the way; then the constable ana the. police officer threaten the group witn arrest if they do not neve. The worksMop leader then discusses the above set of facts with the participants and might ask questions such as: How do the demonetrators respond to the other citizens and to the onstabley How de tney respond to the officer? A cact is then selected of three or four demons: .corg, two or three citizens, 2% constable, one or more police cif .cers who then act out the parte assigned them. Other sample scenarios are “The Congressnan," wrk Barber Shop," ‘whe Magistrate's Court," "The Cell," "Tne ? siket Line,” and “The March."