Tuesday, March 20, 2007

What kind of tree are you?

Okay some of you are familiar with this ice breaking exercise and some of you aren't. Basically everybody in a group takes turns to visualize then describe what kind of tree they are. When I was involved in one these exercise one guy described himself as a dead tree in a graveyard and I think with a noose swinging from one of it's branches. I'm not exactly sure as it was over 10 years ago. We all thought that was pretty weird if not a little creepy. What does it say about you if you visualize yourself as a dead tree in a grave yard? So as the turns went around I figured that was about as weird as it was going to get...until it came to my turn.

I don't know what this said/says about me but when I visualized my tree here is what I got. I was one of six huge planet sized? trees floating in orbit above the Earth with intertwined root systems that formed a protective shield for the planet. Oddly we six trees didn't block the sunlight. At worst we filtered it. Our job it seemed was to protect, not to interfere. Now I know I have an overactive imagination but even for me that's a pretty grandiose image. At the time I was feeling pretty shitty so I don't know why I visualized this.

So that's it. Does any one else have weird ice breaking exercise stories?

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