ABSTRACT
This chapter provides clues towards alternative practice concerning stigma by exploring the transformations in new mediations actioned by Group A, people with mental health conditions. The study is located broadly within the active audience tradition, part of an interpretative approach, but is distinctive through its use of Community Theatre practices which seek a way forward in a practical eliciting of cultural readings. Using an approach developed from the works of Augusto Boal and Paulo Freire, the study is grounded in critical reflections from concrete stimuli. The reception phase serves as a foundation for actions or praxis for Group A with the intention to facilitate critical production processes in which they produce their own mediations; once completed these transformations present data from which to make evaluations. The transformations made by Group A provide two types of new mediations with useful clues towards alternative practice for reducing stigma.
