[Importance of role playing in a professional training group]

Role playing constitutes a precious instrument in training responible people for help relations. It permits to by-pass defense mechanisms through induced avoidance in group situation. It makes personal involvment easier, for efforts as well as for representations, and permits to confront reality in the other person. Under the control of the animator, the player has always the right to limit his personal involvment within the boundaries he wishes : this combination of facilitation and involvment framing is especially interesting.