6/1/2023 0 Comments American Woman by Susan Choi![]() Despite the intensity and apparent intimacy of the trust exercise, the students don't actually know that much about each other. They've been coached into coughing up a lot of intimate information about themselves. "The students are all in that kind of relationship to each other. ![]() False intimacy is confusing because you learn a lot about somebody, but you don't really know them. You haven't earned that knowledge of them. "Despite the apparent intensity and intimacy of the trust exercise, the students don't actually know that much about each other. ![]() He wants them to perceive things as if they have no preconceptions." He's telling them not just what to do, but what to think - and what sort of an attitude to have. "The acting teacher is talking the students through this exercise. is an activity designed to break down the individual and build up the communal. In the book, the activity occurs within an acting program at an American performing arts high school during the 1980s. "It's something that occurs in a bunch of different contexts. ![]() It's an activity designed to break down the individual and build up the communal. "If you've ever been told to stand on something and fall backwards into the interlaced arms of a bunch of people that you don't know that well, that's a trust exercise. ![]() "Trust exercises are things that acting students might be familiar with - and even anybody who's been on a team building retreat or a corporate retreat. ![]()
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