My staff don’t know how to “act.” How are they supposed to be realistic in the scenes with your actors?
We go to great effort to make sure that non-actor simulation participants don’t have to “act” or “pretend” anything. We simply ask them to do their job (for example, nursing family assessment or business negotiations), then we create a solid reality for them to step into. Participants report that after about the third sentence, they forget the scene isn’t real, and they completely don’t notice they are being observed. Many of our scenes, by the way, do not involve non-actor participants. |
