I would then give the performers different physical instructions whilst doing this exercise.
What do you notice about doing this exercise and hearing the tapes now?
If you're doing this exercise with other educators, share your brainstorms in small groups to each other (2 minutes each).
One student even claimed he'd learned more from doing this exercise than from two prior semesters of political theory.
In doing this exercise, Todd began to see two of his direct reports in a new light.
But doing this exercise has made me realise that, in fact, I've been going round in spirals and keep coming back and meeting myself.
When doing this exercise in the context of our current study, one group of teams solved the problem collaboratively, without a leader.
Imagine the most awkward customer possible in doing this exercise Put yourself in the shoes of your customers and make sure the language is at their level and user friendly.
So, when we're doing this exercise of imagining what could've been different, we got some much more interesting answers, and where we thought it was going was not 'better recipes'".
(Please note that The Learning Network also has a graphic organizer (PDF), which teachers can use before doing this exercise to help students sort through the various points of view in an article).
But doing this exercise was pretty cool because it literally turns off that switch of kind of anger and hate, and it takes a little time, but when you show compassion towards somebody else, and kind of wish them well, and think positive things about them, which I had not done, it turned off the switch of of anger I had towards them.
