Playing Back Feelings with Music

About:

Playback Theatre is a wonderful modality for honoring and sharing peoples experiences from the sublime, tragic, mundane, challenging.

Purpose of this lesson:

Gives students practice in regulating their own nervous system.

This is an active way to settle a class

Teach meditation and mindfulness

Prerequisites:

Directions:

I am going to ask you about one thing that you did over the weekend. I want to you tell me what you did and how you felt doing it. Then I am going to play some music that captures the feeling that you told us about.

Glitches:

Students goes on and on with detail after detail.

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Student can't think of anything that they did

Student can't name a feeling.

Needs Met:

Growth- Increase Mastery of self regulation- be able to get very excited and then completely calm one self.

Neuroscience and Psycho-physiology Basis:

Network Balance Model- Shifting from the 'me / default system' to Salience System

Metaphor to Explore:

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