Building Safe and Respectful Workplaces: POSH Awareness with Soul Diets

Our POSH training with Blackberry became a powerful experience as we used drama and storytelling to help employees truly understand the depth of workplace behaviour. Instead of delivering the Act in a classroom-style format, we brought the concepts alive through short skits, character-driven situations, and guided role-plays. Participants stepped into real-life workplace roles—colleagues, bystanders, managers, even complainants—and enacted scenarios based on common grey areas and subtle behaviours that often go unnoticed. Through this approach, they didn’t just learn what harassment is; they felt how easily misunderstandings, discomfort, or repeated comments can create unsafe environments.

As each scenario unfolded, teams discussed what went wrong, what could have been done differently, and how the POSH Act provides clarity and protection. These conversations sparked genuine reflection—participants shared their own observations, biases, hesitations, and the importance of speaking up. The drama technique helped dissolve awkwardness around a sensitive topic and replaced it with awareness, empathy, and responsibility.

What makes this approach even more impactful is that we continue to use it across multiple trainings at Blackberry. Every session brings new stories, new enactments, and new insights from the team. No two trainings look the same because each group brings their own experiences and interpretations, making the learning dynamic and deeply rooted in real workplace culture.

This ongoing engagement has helped employees not just understand POSH compliance but embrace it as a shared value. By blending legal awareness with emotional connection, our sessions help teams recognise their role in shaping a safe, supportive, and respectful environment. At Soul Diets, we continue to use drama as a powerful tool to break silence, encourage expression, and bring long-term behavioural change—one story, one scene, and one workplace at a time.