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How Participating in Drama Productions Help Improve Emotional Intelligence

21 Mar

How Participating in Drama Productions Help Improve Emotional Intelligence

Charles Daniels2019-03-22T11:11:05-07:00
By Charles Daniels (EQ) Emotional Intelligence, (SEL) Social Emotional Learning, afterschool, AI, and, Applied Improvisation, Articles, Assemblies, Assessment, Communication, communication skills, confidence, growth mindset, happiness, Improvisation, In Class Field Trips, international, Life Skills, public speaking, Role Play, self love ai, applied improvisation, Applied improvisation for education, assessment, Life skills 3 Comments

Esteemed poet and playwright Oscar Wilde once said, “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”

Indeed, there is something pure about drama. In the process of assuming an unfamiliar identity, you get an insight into how personalities differ from one individual to another.

A glimpse into the human mind and emotional responses

When playing the part of a good character, a child can learn that ‘goodness’ not only means loving people you know, but also being compassionate to strangers. This is a reason why playing in a drama can be helpful in improving emotional intelligence (EI).

EI is defined by PsychCentral as a metric for measuring empathy, self-awareness, and emotional understanding. Participating even in small theater performances pushes kids to act according to the demands of the character or become self-aware.

This coincides with the findings of a study by researchers from the University of New England and Yale University. Their research subdivides EI into four primary aspects: perceiving, using, understanding, and managing emotions.

Perception is an integral part of any dramatic performance, as actors not only need to recite lines, but also deliver or respond to ad libs. Using emotions, meanwhile, is necessary to elicit a response from fellow performers and the audience.

The last two, understanding and managing emotions are about taking cues from others. These also allow you to control unexpected feelings and not break character.

More importantly, role-play often presents circumstances that one may find difficult to emphasize with.

Different characters have their own intentions, preferences, and peculiarities, just like real people. Exposure to such scenarios can introduce you to how human psychology works, which is fundamental in improving EI. Some of the key facets of psychology are outlined by Maryville University, and social science, in particular, helps you understand the reasoning behind your own or another person’s actions. It is considered an important step towards increasing social awareness. Performing your part in a drama production allows you to understand what inspires/compels a person to do something good, or in the case of the antagonist, something bad.

All of this can have a positive impact on how a child behaves off-stage and later in life. Learning how to adapt to different situations will help you form healthy interpersonal relationships. And as we have discussed in another article here on Kidscape Productions, dramatic skills, and emotional intelligence can even help in practical situations such as job interviews later in life.

If kids learn to understand the emotions of other people as well as their own, they are bound to reach a healthy level of social maturity later on.

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    Chuck Daniels Reply

    The Kidscape classes helped my grandson open up and become more confident. It has now carried over into his adult life. Without these classes I’m sure my grandson would have failed at his dreams. Thank you

    March 22, 2019 at 11:43 am
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    Eliot Current Reply

    These camps have taught me so much on how and in what manner to talk to every kind of person you could think of. Not by telling me how to but by throwing me into situations that we’re weird, uncomfortable and fun and helping me work through those situations I am able to subconsciously do those steps they taught me in every conversation I have. I am so great full that I am able to do that now because it has made me so much more successful in my life.

    March 25, 2019 at 8:44 am
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    Sadie Ward Reply

    These classes have taught me to read nonverbal body language and become more empathetic to others. Improve has increased my emotional maturity and help manage emotional responses and become choices.

    March 26, 2019 at 11:25 am

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