?Junkie ? in the emergency room ? explorations with Forum Theatre

Project summary

In this workshop we will use Forum theater to convey and explore user experiences with out-of-hours (OOH) primary care services, from the perspective of people who have substance abuse problems. A web-based research project conducted by The National Centre for Emergency Primary Health Care (Nklm) has resulted in stories told by people with substance abuse problems. The stories have been used in a qualitative analysis, but also to construct a forum play. In this technique, the spectators are invited into the play as actors. The intention is that people by acting in different ways can achieve a better, i.e. a more empowering result of the interaction between the health professional and the user. This work will result in a different kind of learning for the conference attendees ? using their emotions and bodies as well as their cognitions. Hopefully, these learning experiences will contribute to different and more empowering meetings of higher quality between users and professionals in the future ? from both perspectives.