Hello and welcome—let's dive right in, shall we?
For this week's teaching, I decided to draw on a practice I learned decades ago as a theatre major at Northwestern. It's really simple to do, and yet the results from it can be quite striking and very helpful when we're navigating a moment.
The basics involve choosing a particular word to stress more than the others in a sentence. For our purposes, I've chosen the question above as an example: "What are you doing?"
Now ask the question four different ways—stressing one word more
than the others. The question, its depth and meaning changes each time you choose to stress a different word. It also offers another way to consider and meet the challenge at hand. Try it—with my suggested question or one of your own. See what surfaces and how it directs you to consider your options and a way forward.
Stymied by your own question for now? Then go with mine and see what happens. "What Are You Doing?" (2:39)?
