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The Aikido/
Chess Game
- History: not about winning but
responding to specific challenges and moves
- Instructions: involves two people and
two chairs placed five feet apart; gaze into each other’s eyes for two minutes
then physically communicate taking turns using gestures; after 15 minutes,
reflect with your partner
- Meaning: “exploring weight and tension,
push and pull”
Poetic
Instructions
- Objective: introductions in a unique,
poetic way
- Instructions: the group gathers in a
circle; introduce yourself one at a time in an imaginative, creative, and
memorable fashion
Poetic
Exquisite Corpse
- History: used to broaden views and keep
open minds on personal ideals
- Instructions: everyone contributes in
developing a vocal chant poem by proposing and completing one another’s
statements
Today’s
Question
- Objective: trigger others’ imagination
and mental imagery
- Instructions: ask rhetorical questions
to one another
The Spectrum
- Objective: acknowledge and accept
others’ different sensitive issues, identity, political view, religion, race,
age, and background
- Instructions: the participants must
imagine a number line from 1 to 10, from one point of the room to the opposing;
they are presented with extreme ideals and asked to stand on a point on the
invisible line to the extent to which they agree, disagree, or are neutral to;
after each question, discuss every person’s view of that question
- Meaning: “It humanizes the process.”
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By: Bretten James
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