Procedure:
- Pairs stand back to back.
- The facilitator leads them through a dialogue with
their backs, in which several feelings are included.
Example:
* Imagine your backs are speaking to each other about
trivial, everyday life matters. You exchange ideas, make light jokes about
things, share experiences, etc.
* Eventually, a mild discrepancy between you arises which
increases gradually into a discussion.
* An intense conflict is revealed which turns into an
angry argument.
* You both hold to your positions: It is a matter of
principle and you are not willing to give up…!
* Finally, you realize that it was all a
misunderstanding, a big mistake. You just didn’t understand or hear each other
properly.
* Now everything is mended, you explain yourselves to one
another, you make up. You’re just two loving, caring human beings…
- Members respond to the facilitator’s account of the
dialogue only by moving their backs.
- Exercise performed in silence.
