Theater of the Oppressed is a theater of liberation. Its dialogical and emancipatory character helps individuals become aware of their external determinations, as well as their potential for creativity and development. This awareness allows them to free themselves from the status of passive spectators and become self-determined actors in both theater and everyday life, playing an increasingly active, creative, and constructively critical role in shaping their own lives and contexts. Thomas Haug uniquely connects the theater of liberation with the idea of self-help and the concept of empowerment, primarily exploring what the theater of liberation can achieve regarding empowerment in self-help and how its implementation in practice might look. His book is about the art of one's own way, crossing boundaries, and much more.