Chris-- You asked for stories--
I'm remembering a workshop I took with Jean Houston. We did lots of weird exercises, and there were a few private-school headmasters who just stood on the sidelines. But a woman in a wheelchair was down on the floor doing floor exercises, and just asked for a hand getting back into her wheelchair. In a workshop I was leading, one woman introduced herself by dancing in her wheel chair. Late in the afternoon I realized that she would need to get out of her wheelchair for a drawing exercise, and I did not know if she could. In a quick consultation, we figured out how she could do the exercise, and as soon as I gave the instructions to the group, someone asked to be her partner. She went home with a lifesized drawing of herself--standing, which she had not physically been able to do for a number of years--she was thrilled. Not to worry. In my experience, the mental and emotional constraints we carry around can be as daunting as physical disabilities. Joelle * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
