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====== Musical introduction to the emotions ======

===== Objectives =====

  * Welcoming our emotions
  * Learning to feel and to name them
  * Highlighting how different are our perceptions.

===== Scenario =====

**Duration**: 45 minutes

Set the room in a cosy way: put carpets on the floor and create a peaceful atmosphere, with smooth light. 

Distribute to the participants the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Plutchik|Wheel of emotions of Plutchik]] as well as a **grid** where they will write down the emotions they will recognize in each song played and the intensity of it.\\
Give them 3 minutes to get familiar with the 8 basic emotions the wheel of emotions includes (fear, joy, sadness, anticipation, trust, anger, surprise, disgust).

Invite then the participants to lay down on the floor and take 2 minutes of focusing with their eyes closed. 

Start the music.\\
After each extract of a song (around 1 minute - 1 minute 20 seconds), give 40 seconds to the participants to **acknowledge the emotion(s) they felt** when it was playing and to write them down on their grid and precise the intensity of it (with a "+" and "-") They may use the Wheel of emotions to remember the 8 basic emotions.
 
To conclude the session, invite the participants for a short debriefing:
  * How did they feel during the exercise ?
  * Were there music samples they had difficulties sorting out ?
  * Where there music samples that generate very strong reactions ? 
You can also pick an example to illustrate the diversity of emotions the same sample can generate depending the person.

//Examples of songs you can include in your playlist//:
  * Beethoven - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe3Wv--xNJY|The storm]]
  * Nicola Piovani - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB99gDvxyFo|La vita è bella]]
  * Beirut - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX63KddDz9s|Ederlezi]]
  * Amy Winehouse - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJAfLE39ZZ8|Back to black]]
  * Cesaria Evora - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERYY8GJ-i0I|Sodade]] 
  * Dvorak - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhF1xaxdEq4|Dies Irae]]
  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qamv4U-SEo|Cumbia Sobre el mar]]
  * Eminem - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yhyp-_hX2s|Lose yourself]] 
  * Bob Marley - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgD8rao1jQ8&list=RDCgD8rao1jQ8&start_radio=1&t=7-|Could you be loved]]
  * Estrella Morente Soundtrack "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md0xEzMzIUM|Volver]]" Pedro Almodovar 
  * Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gznfnvgHAOA&list=PLMBLU0a3oyMKF0eoNMvtjI1AHUo2tIMwI|In the beginning]] - Life is a miracle VOST
  * Anger Burning [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R3Q025j9pc|Fears / Just say no]]
  * Threat Signal [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnPX_YQQ0RA|Faceless]] 
  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWN36wBKFBM|Inuit throat singing]]
  * Mussorgsky - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJS8QXCjwHI&t=11s|A Night on Bald Mountain]] 
  * Prokofiev - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBsKplb2E6Q|Dance of the Knights]]
  * Nina Simone - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5jI9I03q8E|Ain’t got no]]

===== Material required =====
 
  * A playlist with the songs you want the participants to work on
  * A good sound system (computer + loudspeakers)
  * Carpets (for people to lie down on the ground)
  * 1 Wheel of emotions (by R. Plutchik) and a grid per participant.

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