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A prehearsal is an improvised situation of short duration (up to an hour), a try-out of a scenario focusing on the player’s behaviours and interactions, | A prehearsal is an improvised situation of short duration (up to an hour), a try-out of a scenario focusing on the player’s behaviours and interactions, | ||
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+ | The difference between [[role playing]] and a prehearsal is that the participants do not take a role of another character, but play themselves in different situations. Prehearsals are designed as short improvisation exercises that can be used as elements in longer participatory sessions. [[Pre-enactment]]s are longer form prehearsals with longer time for preparation and experience. | ||
==== Process ==== | ==== Process ==== | ||
- | (a step by step process) | + | * Step 1: Create a [[backstory]] for the prehearsal, based on images of the future developed through [[speculation_and_visioning]] and [[incasting]]. |
+ | * Step 2: Design the situation you want to prehearse. Choose a context that is relevant to the issue the group is exploring. It is helpful if the situation is familiar to the participants in the present | ||
+ | * Step 3: Demarcate a part of the space and have a clear physical threshold. Once they cross this threshold, the participants will be required to act "as if" they exist in the future they are prehearsing. | ||
+ | * Step 4: Describe the backstory and the situation to the participants and invite them to spend a few minutes thinking about what they would be doing in such situation in the future. You can ask them to write a page of their future [[diary]] in which they describe themselves in this situation. | ||
+ | * Step 5: Give clear instructions to the participants beforehand, with simple rules of engagement. Allow enough time for questions and clarifications, | ||
+ | * Step 6: Prehearse. Run the simulation from beginning to end without interruptions. Host the prehearsal 'in character' | ||
+ | * Step 7: Debrief. After the prehearsal is finished, there should be sufficient time for reflection on experiential insights. Integrate the findings with other knowledge gained through other inquiries (analysis, visioning, etc.) | ||
==== References ==== | ==== References ==== |