Sex, Sexuality and Gender
Sex, Sexuality and Gender
Sex, Sexuality and Gender
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• zRead the narrative to the participants in a slow <strong>and</strong> meditative<br />
manner providing participants a chance to create their own images<br />
<strong>and</strong> to remember their thoughts <strong>and</strong> feelings as the narrative<br />
is being read. Having already familiarized yourself with the narrative,<br />
give some time to pause after every statement or question<br />
<strong>and</strong> between every memory point. Explain to the participants that<br />
it is okay to ‘jump’ from one memory to another if it is impossible<br />
to visualize or associate with the narrative being read.<br />
Read the narrative: An ordinary day in the middle of the week<br />
I want you to go back in your memories to when you were between the ages of 13 <strong>and</strong> 19 years<br />
old, to a period when you had just started to think about love <strong>and</strong> sexuality.<br />
• zWhere did you live?<br />
• zRemember the house or the place where you lived (hut, boarding school etc.).<br />
• zThink about your family or the people that you shared the place with.<br />
You wake up in the morning:<br />
• zLook around, who else is sleeping in the room?<br />
• zPretend that you’re sitting on your bed – what can you see?<br />
• zPosters, furniture’s <strong>and</strong> so on<br />
• zYou get up <strong>and</strong> get dressed.<br />
• zWhat was the first thing you used to do in the mornings?<br />
• zIf you used to eat breakfast, who else was eating together with you?<br />
• zWhat did you eat?<br />
You get ready for going to school:<br />
• zWhat was the last thing you used to do before you left your home or the place you stayed at?<br />
• zWho did you usually say goodbye to?<br />
• zHow did you go to school: By foot? By bicycle? By bus?<br />
• zDid you meet someone on your way: Who?<br />
• zDid you talk to someone on your way: Who?<br />
• zWhat did you usually talk about?<br />
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In school, you recognise someone you are very fond of:-<br />
• zWho was this person?<br />
• zWhat are your feelings for this person: Someone you have fallen in love with from a distance?<br />
A dear close friend whom you have fallen in love with? Did you desire intimacy with this person?<br />
Did you want to spend long moments together with this person? Did you want to reach<br />
out <strong>and</strong> gently touch this person?<br />
• zWere you able to communicate your affection with this person: Maybe, you were afraid to<br />
communicate your feelings with this person? What would you have liked to say to this person?<br />
What eventually gave you the confidence to say something to or share your feelings with<br />
this person? What did you say? What did he or she say?<br />
• zStay in this moment for a while.<br />
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