Two-Headed Expert
Two participants sit side by side and answer audience questions as a single expert, alternating words or phrases to form coherent responses. Teaches surrender of control and deep listening.
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Dr. Know-It-All
Dr. Know-It-All is an exercise in which three or four participants sit side by side and answer audience questions one word at a time as if they were a single expert. Each person in the panel says one word, then the next person continues with one word, creating a collectively improvised answer that emerges word by word across the panel. The exercise requires intense listening, agreement, and the ability to accept any word offered and continue from exactly there.
One Voice Expert
Three participants sit close together as a single 'expert' on a fictional topic, speaking with one voice simultaneously during a TV interview format.
One Voice
One Voice is a game and exercise in which two or more performers speak simultaneously, attempting to produce the same words at the same time without prior coordination. The group must listen intently and follow collective impulses rather than individual intention, producing coherent shared speech as a single entity. The game develops group mind, deep listening, and the capacity to surrender individual control to collective will.
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