Just Say No to Abuse Declaring War on Terrorism. Sensitive Characterisation - Part 1. In our early workshops with our drama groups, we are often concerned with developing that which already exists within each individual with the emphasis on intuitive discovery. Our efforts, at that stage particularly, are aimed at overcoming self-consciousness and this is partly achieved by allowing the work to take place at an unconscious level. As we see the members of our drama group gradually develop more confidence and personal mastery, we can begin to introduce workshops for both the individual and the group as a whole, that focus on the develpment of consciousness of self enabling sensitivity to the environment and those around us.
Sensitivity is the basis of human awareness.
Developing it, consciously, will eventually provoke unconscious and sensitive responses through personal growth to sound, to imaginative stimuli, and to the existence of other human beings, thus encouraging conscious personal control and humility. This progressional aspect of our practical work, does not mean that we are in any way moving away from our earlier work, and we must continue with that, only at a more conscious level. It is useful to begin this type of workshop with a simple and relaxing exercise with involving the whole group, such as the following. Ask the members of your drama group to form a line, one by one behind each other. Explain to them that they must each focus only on the person directly in front of them and copy exactly what that person does with, to begin with, their arms.