exercise · all tools

Status Swap

Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharednone

Two people play a pair with assigned characters — child and adult, thief and police, doctor and patient, boss and employee, groupie and star, devil and angel — one high status and one low. Then they exchange status while keeping the same characters, gradually and slowly.

Practical

Time
min
Group
? · pairs
Settings
in-person
Mechanisms
perspective-taking, behavioral-rehearsal
Change scope
state → skill · repeatable

Instructions

Where
xn--dramavningar-8ib.se/statusbyte Dramaövningar.se, open
Availability
Open online — published at the link, free to read

Source link checked 1 Sep 2026 — reachable

This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.

Origin

Martin Wiss (published as 'Martin' on dramaövningar.se) — Swedish dramapedagogik

In this directory via Dramaövningar.se

Related: Status Scenes (variant-of)

status: checked · added 2026-09-01