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When spects change your point of view, it’s sometimes useful for them to see you go through the process. Here are the three steps.
Let things impact you. Be emotionally affected by what others say and do. Respond immediately. There’s no need to stop and think. Release an emotional impulse. Your responses may be large or subtle, but they should always be present. Other players feel a sense of agency when their offers have an obvious impact on you.
Play a scene in which each offer you make is dictated by someone directing either “information,” “emotion,” or “action.”
The interactive process involves verbal give and take. You say something and the spect responds. The spect says something and you respond. There’s a way to super-charge this process. Instead of waiting until spects have finished speaking, respond emotionally while they’re speaking. This is concurrent emotion. It’s something we do in real life all the time. While the other person is talking, we nod our heads, furrow our brows, or roll our eyes. We exhibit all manner of emotional responses while the other person is speaking.
Player B tells a story while Player A exhibits concurrent emotions related to the events of the story.
Play a scene in which you respond to each offer that the spect makes by establishing credit or blame, being emotionally changed, or treating it as though there is an ulterior motive behind the offer.
Take different emotional hits off a series of random offers. If practicing alone, use an online random sentence generator to create the initial offer.
Two players look deeply into each other’s eyes. After a while, they briefly look away, and then re-establish eye contact. One says, “Hello,” and the other says, “Hello.” They hold eye contact for a while, then look away and back again. When ready, one player says, “I see you,” and the other says, “I see you.” They hold eye contact, then break and re-establish it again. When ready, one player says, “I could be hurt by you.” The other says, “I know.” They continue to hold eye contact until one looks away. Then the exercise is over.