Session 12 : Class ||| C

This was the first session I was conducting alone without Beatrice. I was extremely nervous. We had decided earlier to start moving these kids towards story and narrative building based on their characters.
We started the session by a sentence game each person had to say one word for the completion of the sentence related to the elements. "Once upon a time there was a good air, good water and good earth who lived together in a big house in a forest." This was the sentence the class came up with. We closed our eyes and then imagined a forest and a big house, and your element in the forest. They began to move.
It was interesting to see how they moved trying to be an element in a given space. They were trying to express the freedom of the elements. While they were moving i secretly choose two humans from the elements and just asked them "What happens to the elements and the forest when we humans come in?"
I left it open enough for them to move and create a situation. The humans started cutting down all the trees and polluting the air with smoke and throwing garbage in the water. The elements became angry.
I then put out another question to the elements, "What happens when air water and earth become angry?"
Like this we build a narrative. The air water and earth against the humans have a tiff and ultimately the two humans won destroying all the elements and the trees.

Then I changed the location from the forest to the city. "How are the elements different in the city as compared to the forest?"
They started acknowledging these questions and they started thinking differently. But in the city i made more humans and less elements. They clearly understood the difference between the two scenarios and acted accordingly. They really enjoyed being the humans!!!