Friday, February 27, 2009

A rescue?

A few months ago a young woman was stuck in the hamster tube. This young girl was in Becky's group. First she lost her shoe, and then she was unable to get up and out of the tube. First Becky flipped upside down and crawled into the tube to get the shoe on the girl. After a few minutes of struggling I moved down from the ferry platform to stand in the net besides Becky. I moved here for physical and mental support. Eventually Becky asked for some assistance and she tapped out. I crawled into the tube upside down helping the girl out. I talked her into lifting one foot at a time and physically placed her foot into the net. Sometimes that did not work and was forced to hold her foot while she stood on it to move up. Eventually she ended up just sitting on my back and took a break for a while. No, she is not still there. She did eventually did get out. It took about 10 minutes or so to get her out.

As a facilitator it was exhausting. It was not really hot, thank god, but it was a different challenge. Hanging upside down with two bigger people in the tube was interesting. Having no personal bubble really helped.

Do you guys have any other ideas that could have worked? Has anyone else ran into a strange "rescue"? It could be practice or real.

1/3 Head
Stephen

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