Modes
If you are planning to compose or adapt your own exercise, you first need to think about the problems you wish to solve. These should never be problems you already know the answer to.
Modes can be thought of as ‘genres’ of learning which describe what participants are doing during the exercise in a more generalised way. They can overlap and an exercise can encompass multiple modes.
Below are some of the modes that we have found ourselves using and our thoughts about them.
We will use the problem ‘We want to teach people how to have arguments and remain commonly committed to the movement’ as an example to illustrate how the mode might be deployed in an exercise.
Library
Discussion
Simulation
Imagination
Production
Intensification
Surrealisation
Emulation
Particularisation
Simulation
Imagination
Production
Intensification
Surrealisation
Emulation
Particularisation
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