We don't pretend to know everything.
Some workplace topics need more than a good script. Family violence. FIFO mental health. The work has to be co-developed with people whose entire careers are spent inside it. Specialists who can audit a scene, vet a character, push back on a line that gets the lived experience wrong.
These are the partners we've built our most sensitive plays with.
DART Group
Family violence primary prevention
The Domestic Abuse Resource and Training Group is one of Western Australia's leading family violence specialists. We co-developed our family violence play, Behind Closed Doors, with DART. The scene follows Skye and Judd - a couple who appear perfect until the signs of family violence emerge behind closed doors.
Co-development means DART had script approval. Their specialists vetted character behaviour, sat in on early rehearsals and helped shape the facilitator framing around the play. The play addresses workplace responsibilities under primary prevention frameworks - what colleagues notice, what managers can do, what a workplace's duty of care looks like when family violence is happening to one of their people.
This FIFO Life and the WA Mental Health Commission
FIFO mental health and wellbeing
This FIFO Life is a Mental Health Commission program developed for the FIFO and FIFO-adjacent workforce in Western Australia. The Commission and the This FIFO Life team partnered with The Experience Lab to develop This FIFO Life of Brian - a play that follows Brian as he starts a new FIFO role, navigating work patterns, time away from family, fatigue and mental health.
The play runs as a 2 or 3.5 hour session. Like Behind Closed Doors, the script was developed inside the partnership - reviewed by people who know the FIFO experience first-hand. The result is a delivery that lands in mining and resources sites in the language those workforces actually use.
CEOs for Gender Equity
Gender equity, inclusion and Upstander work
CEOs for Gender Equity is a Western Australian coalition of chief executives committed to closing the gender gap in their own organisations and across the state. We've co-developed three plays with them - each one launched into the WA workplace community through their network.
It's a Woman's Woman's World - a Corporate Theatre play that flips the script on gendered power dynamics. A world where women are in charge and female middle managers explore how to empower men.
Animal Firm: A Tale of Belonging - co-developed with CEOs for Gender Equity to surface unconscious bias and exclusion through fun, irreverent characters that disarm defensiveness.
Be an Upstander - the launch of our Upstander program was supported by CEOs for Gender Equity and rolled out across the coalition's member organisations.
Specialist content needs specialist authorship.
The Experience Lab can write a Sexual Harassment Upstander scene from the foundations of the Sex Discrimination Act and our own track record across hundreds of deliveries. We don't need to outsource that. But where the content involves lived experience our team doesn't carry directly - family violence, FIFO mental health, suicide prevention, specific cultural contexts - co-development with the right partner is what keeps the work credible. It is also what keeps it safe.
We expect this list to grow. If you're a specialist organisation working in workplace wellbeing or safety and you can see a play we should be building together, get in touch.
Want one of our co-developed plays in your workplace?
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