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The Hot Chair
Everyone sits in a ring with one chair spare. The leader reads statements and each person takes a personal position: those who agree change seats calmly, those who disagree stay, and those who do not yet know stay too. Then the leader asks some of them about their thinking — and does not comment. Nor may anyone comment on anyone else's view, only give their own; a discussion of a statement that drew strong reactions can follow afterwards, if the leader chooses.
- Your position is public and physical; 'don't know' and 'disagree' look identical from the outside, which the sheet uses deliberately to give cover
- How much is at stake depends entirely on the statements chosen, which the sheet leaves to the leader
- The rule that the leader does not comment is the safeguard, and dropping it turns the exercise into an assessment
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- ?–∞ · large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Materials
- Chairs in a ring, one more than the number of participants
- Mechanisms
- values-clarification, dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- teatermila.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/heta_stolen.pdf — Teater Mila — Övningar, open
- Availability
- In the source document — the instructions live inside the material linked, on its terms
Source link checked 1 Sep 2026 — reachable
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Teater Mila, Luleå — Swedish dramapedagogik
In this directory via Teater Mila — Övningar
Related: Anyone who... (alternative-to)
status: checked · added 2026-08-31