A group imagining actions shifts from spectator to potential doer

Evidence

When a group is together, each person (after a focus is established, or not) finishes a sentence beginning with “WE COULD…” in as many ways as possible. Time could be limited, or open-ended. The sentences could be recorded or not. The group could vote on subsequent action according to the sentences, or just enjoy imagining what they could be doing. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 326

Categorization

• SEED: A workshop exercise for teachers and facilitators: the ‘WE COULD…’ prompt surfaced as a generative group-perception tool rather than a decision procedure.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 326
• XREF: connects to: Group improvisation can be seeded by collective possibility statements; Theater excels at condensing thought into sudden unexpected action — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 896; Future literature mobilizes people toward predetermined ends — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 747 (+12 more)