This is a summary of an essentially practical session for dealing with discipline differences in the middle years. Drama is used as a means to train students in conflict resolution techniques and explore their own emotions and reactions. Fight techniques are developed, confrontations improvised and characters in crowd scenes role played.

1. Aggression as
Potential
Susan Hillyard B.Ed. (Hons)

2. FIGHT TECHNIQUES
in its own right
UNITY: Logic
Cause Fight Consequence
REAL DRAMA

3. To pull a punch = To hold back
Contrast Pace/rhythm
• stillness
Fluency
• stalking
Each fight unit
• circling
• waiting Fight = a word, a feeling
Sounds Techniques Reaction
• huffs Communication
• puffs
• grunts
• gasps Eye Contact
• cries Corpsing
• howls Slickness Overall believability
E.g. They didn’t pull any punches
She never pulls a punch

4. Intervention: Sets:
• peacemaker • garden fence
• support one side • in the market
• trouble-maker • on transport,
e.g. bus
Trust exercises
Confrontation Insults
Talk ‘em down
The angel & the devil
Temper tantrums
Humiliation exercises
Dumb insolence

5. Chanting
The leader • verbal machine
• circle jingles
Ceremony
vs.
Crowd Chaos
The Director
FILM SCENE Scenes
• hooliganism Emotions
• crucifixion • joy
• funeral • anger
• political demo • laughter
• airline disaster • sarcasm
• strike • grief
• Pied Piper • fear
• escapes • panic