Nobody discloses anything real in this lab. Every disclosure belongs to a character on a card, so you can practise without giving the room information about yourself.
Before the lab#
Bring your week 9 draft protocol with your partner.
Run sheet#
Times below run from the 14:05 start; finish at 14:55.
| Time | What happens |
|---|---|
| 0:00–0:04 | Read one of the fictional character cards below. |
| 0:04–0:15 | Draft. For your character, write a need-without-label sentence for each of its two audiences. |
| 0:15–0:25 | Say it and receive it. Two minutes to read the checklist; then two four-minute rounds, swapping roles. Say a character’s sentence, receive it, and check: thank, ask about the need, don’t re-read. Each person practises receiving once. |
| 0:25–0:29 | Optional room debrief: name a receiving step that needed attention, without sharing any personal disclosure. |
| 0:29–0:46 | Interoperation Report, round 2. Take last week’s three draft clauses and mark each held, revised or dropped, with a reason. Add up to two clauses if your week of working together warrants them. |
| 0:46–0:50 | Each partner writes, separately, a concession or an unresolved request. Flag a partnership that needs renegotiating to Jonah before leaving. |
Character cards#
- Rae needs written task instructions and is starting a part-time job. Write to a supervisor who allocates work and a coworker who gives handovers.
- Dev needs a quieter place for a planning conversation. Write to a tutor arranging a meeting and a classmate choosing where to work together.
Use only these stated needs. You do not need to invent a diagnosis or history.
If this week is close to home#
It might be. The character cards are there so you can practise at one remove. You can also sit this lab’s first half out entirely, by telling Jonah at the start, and join at 0:29 for the Interoperation Report round. This is the alternative in the first two spec lines, not a failed exercise. No reason is required, and no part of the lab requires personal disclosure.
What leaves the room#
Two character sentences and receiving practice, or the opt-out, plus a revised draft protocol. If you choose to say a need-without-label sentence of your own this week, you can use it for the Field Journal: what you said, to whom, what came back.