Background and aims: Metka encourages expression through voice and theatre methods in her workshop which invites reflection on group dynamics and nurturing collaboration and cooperation. This exercise allows participants to express vocally, but abstractly, how they feel.
Step 1: The workshop facilitator marks out the area for the participants to walk (when working outdoors – indoors the area is the working room). Participants are then invited to start walking and to choose a sound that represents how the day has been for them. The sound is repeated and elaborated so that it is completely clear to the participants how it begins and how it ends.
Step 2: Once the participants have chosen a sound and started to make it, the facilitator invites them to intensify it on a scale from 1 to 5.
Step 3: The facilitator invites participants to meet other participants and present the sounds to each other.
Step 4: After each participant shares a gesture and sound with others, they then simultaneously enact their unique sounds and gestures, repeatedly. During this action they search for sounds of other participants that resonate to them. Through the processes of individual negotiation and non-verbal communication, the participants synchronize their individual sounds so that they evolve towards the whole group making the exact same sound repeatedly. The final group sound sequence might consist of one person’s sound combined with another person’s sound, or a new composite that integrates two people’s sound, and so on. The whole group eventually assembles, standing in a circle, as all participants continue to evolve their sounds. The goal is everyone making the exact same sound.
