Testimonials

International Society for Performance Improvement, ISPI: May 11, 2010

07/06/2010 15:05
Brilliant program; fascinating process.  Lovely, intimate atmosphere.  Couldn’t get much better; fabulous; inventive.  Professional – on the mark!  Amazing listeners; talented. Learned a lot; inspirational – personally and professionally.  Opening hearts.

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Reverend Kathryn Anderson: Unity of Vancouver

08/11/2009 03:39
Reverend Kathryn Anderson Unity of Vancouver   "I was amazed and delighted to witness the way you built a communal language, step by step, increasingly drawing us into a shared space. The respectful listening, dramatic discipline and intuitive communication within your group created an...

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Wayne McNiven: Vancouver Community College

08/11/2009 03:37
Wayne McNiven Career Awareness Program Community & Career Education, VCC   "Each time I see Vancouver Playback Theatre [VPT], I am more and more impressed. As a member of the audience I am not just an observer, I'm a participant. VPT involves me. The troupe creates a "safe" place where we...

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Michelle Mann/Sara Menzel: VCC

08/11/2009 03:30
Michelle Mann, PhD R.C.C. Sessional Instructor Sara Menzel, R.C.C. Program Coordinator Councelling Skills Certificate Program, VCC   "Playback Theatre is an invaluable tool for educators and students. It develops emotional and social intelligence by enacting personal stories using workshop...

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Carol Sicoli: VCC

08/11/2009 03:28
Carol Sicoli, Coordinator Employee Development Human Resources Department, VCC   " Vancouver Playback Theatre performed during our annual Diversity week event. Each member of the group drew on their personal and professional experiences on the theme of diversity and engaged the participants...

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Gyda Chud: VCC

08/11/2009 03:14
Gyda Chud, Director of Continuing Studies VCC   "Vancouver Playback Theatre's performance during VCC's Diversity week was an amazing and powerful experience that touched everyone in the audience! The kind of learning experience VPT offers touches the mind and the heart and, in so doing...

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Sheryl Sorokin: Greater Vancouver Mental Health Society

08/11/2009 03:11
Sheryl Sorokin Greater Vancouver Mental Health Society   "Playback Theater is a very useful tool for bringing human experience into focus, to creating new possibilities of experience and creating new meaning for ourselves and our organizations. The venues for its usefulness are...

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Jackie Day: Vancouver/Richmond Health Board

08/11/2009 03:08
Jackie Day Vancouver/Richmond Health Board   "One month following the retreat, the majority of the team members were of the opinion that the Playback experience had been helpful in improving team morale and had cleared many of the difficulties related to changes in colleague dutie 'It...

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Geraldine Brooks: B.C. Psychologist's Association

08/11/2009 03:05
Geraldine Brooks B.C. Psychologist's Association   "The Vancouver Playback Troupe showed us the impact of theatre as a means of transforming a group towards wholeness. We told our stories, and watched captivated as the troupe played them back to us through improvised sound and movement....

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Rae Schido: Keith Lynn Alternative Secondary School

08/11/2009 03:01
Rae Schido, Teacher Keith Lynn Alternative Secondary School   "You have a charismatic presence and welcoming personalities. You could tell right from the beginning that the students felt very comfortable. It was a full day of free expression with meaning.  Every stage led to the next,...

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