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‘NO AGENDA’TACKLING GENDER NORMS IN COMMUNICATION

Whether you are a woman or a man, we consciously and subconsciously play to gender norms throughout our lives and especially in the workplace. This unique course aims to explore how it affects you at an individual and team level. Through exercises that draw on theatre practice, psychotherapy, forum discussion and debate, this one-day workshop will open up new ways for you to communicate. It will also offer you an opportunity to discuss some of the issues faced by both genders, including maternity, paternity care, career aspirations, personal habits and assumptions. It will give you the confidence to build a learning community at work that aims to tackle gender inequality for both men and women. This course is aimed at mixed gender groups of between 4-10 people. It has been designed in consultation with academics and specialists in gender study and will be delivered by trained actors who have experience as teachers and leaders.

Key Aims
  • Explore how we speak and listen to one another
  • Explore what gender norms mean for you and your team
  • Examine new ways to communicate with authenticity and respect
  • Examine how to develop better communication practice and allow everyone to have a voice
  • Explore transactional analysis and its impact on how we speak in groups
  • Develop gender neutral speaking skills
  • Develop a deeper understanding of the physical, cognitive and emotional behaviours for why people speak the way they do and find new tools to break habits
  • Increase confidence to speak
  • Learn the skills and strategies for influencing people in all directions
  • Feedback and ongoing relationship for individual
Introductory Offers

Half day/full day workshops and individual tailored sessions are available. Please contact us for a specific quote.
Introductory prices negotiable for first time clients. Costs exclude venue hire or catering.

Latest News

With Covid, a lot of us have had to learn new computer skills to present and attend online meetings. However, the rise in online meetings has also created a greater need to be an effective speaker. Through Turn of Phrase’s actors and facilitators, you can learn how to give the best of yourself online and keep your colleagues, students and clients engaged. Click here for more details. Tim Allsop, the AD of Turn of Phrase, is leading a national project on queer rural lives and histories. There will be a multimedia theatre piece and film coming in 2021. More details here

Tweets

If you’re a school looking to do work on gender equality and tackling misogyny, TOP has been running its No Agenda workshop to great success for the last seven years. We are taking bookings for end of summer and the autumn terms. Get in touch. #gender #boys

About 3 weeks ago from Turn of Phrase's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@helenbarrett aninjusticemag.com/the-countr… a gentle & nuanced discussion of rural and its differences that has come out of talking with queer rural people.

Last month from Turn of Phrase's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

In our experience of going into schools and running workshops on gender equality, we see there is still a lot of work to be done on educating young people about how prevalent misogyny and toxic masculinity is in our society. We need a cultural change.

In our experience of going into schools and running workshops on gender equality, we see there is still a lot of work to be done on educating young people about how prevalent misogyny and toxic masculinity is in our society. We need a cultural change.

About a month ago from Turn of Phrase's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

Clients

clients include the Labour Party, Movement for Change, Guidhall School, and Cause 4

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Copyrighted images of students courtesy of Westminster School 2015.

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