Turning down the volume of life
Sep. 28th, 2011 11:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pktechgirlbackupToday was my first day of improv class. They focused a lot on trying to build an atmosphere of trust, and I totally get why, but...
The hardest thing I have done this month is be a model for the head teacher to demonstrate a control exercise to the tiny ninjas . In this exercise, one punches as close as possible to another person without actually hitting them. I know this woman, she's hit me lots of times and I've been fine afterwords, and I know she has the control to not hit me if she doesn't want to. But it is really hard to drop your guard and just let someone punch at you. My proudest moment this month was doing that exercise with one of the ninjas, and gaining enough of her trust that she dropped her guard hand and let me punch directly at her.
...so you can why, as a trust building exercise, word ball was not really doing it for me. It's not their fault, and I'm not suggesting we start a punching-based improv exercise, but it is hard for me to get invested.
The hardest thing I have done this month is be a model for the head teacher to demonstrate a control exercise to the tiny ninjas . In this exercise, one punches as close as possible to another person without actually hitting them. I know this woman, she's hit me lots of times and I've been fine afterwords, and I know she has the control to not hit me if she doesn't want to. But it is really hard to drop your guard and just let someone punch at you. My proudest moment this month was doing that exercise with one of the ninjas, and gaining enough of her trust that she dropped her guard hand and let me punch directly at her.
...so you can why, as a trust building exercise, word ball was not really doing it for me. It's not their fault, and I'm not suggesting we start a punching-based improv exercise, but it is hard for me to get invested.
