exercise · all tools
Conductor
A tight circle becomes three choirs; whoever stands in the middle improvises a melody — words, gibberish, a single note — for each choir to loop, then conducts the layers until ending it. Anyone may take the middle. The manual calls it deep, silly, transcendent or chaotic depending on the night.
- The Healing Conductor variation asks people to revisit a difficult memory and sing it in three voices — objective, wounded, wise; the manual says music 'cuts straight into emotion', and that version belongs at depth 3 with a facilitator able to hold what surfaces
Practical
- Time
- 10-25 min
- Group
- 6–∞ · large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Mechanisms
- creative-expression, somatic-awareness, ritual-container
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- authrev.org/ar-games-manual — Authentic Relating Games Manual, paid
- Availability
- In the source document — the instructions live inside the material linked, on its terms
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0 (Authentic Relating Games Manual)
Source link checked 31 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 29 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Phil Santos (Ecstatic Playground, Miami), inspired by Bobby McFerrin's circle singing — Authentic Relating (Authentic Relating Games Manual, 2025 edition); circlesong
In this directory via Authentic Relating Games Manual
Variation in the manual: Healing Conductor, which turns a charged memory into the three choirs.
status: checked · added 2026-08-31