EEL Experience Sharing
Thanks so much for taking the time to share. Your sharing can be really meaningful and helpful for your facilitator who has taken the vulnerable choice to share a work-in-progress.
The suggested time to spend with this is about 15-30 minutes
Your sharing is for you (more integration/learning) and for the facilitator (to learn more about your experience)
Please share EXPERIENCE moreso than suggestions (except where asked). Learning your experience (intrapsychic and interpersonal) of the workshop will be of most benefit so they can have a sense of how it went for you. The textures, the sensations, the emotions, the insights, the urges.
While you might have recommendations and suggestions that could be useful, first please back up a step and ask yourself, “what was my experience that leads me to this suggestion/recommendation?” and then share that experience you were having rather than (or prior to) sharing your suggestion. This will be much more informative to the facilitator.
For example: If your suggestion is: “Stay in the large group rather than pairs”, you might instead, or first, say “My partner and I didn’t really connect and I was left feeling like I didn’t get any feedback on my art” OR “I was hungry to see other people’s images” OR “I would have liked the opportunity for the facilitator to model the process directly rather than count on us to do it” OR “the process for the breakout room was confusing so we just abandoned the questions and shared what felt important to us” OR “I’m a queer person with a history that makes being paired without facilitation feel a little trickier” OR “It felt a little bit on-the-spot to have to share” OR “I needed more time to re-regulate with the group before pairing off” OR some other aspect of your experience that helps the facilitator know the context in which you are making the suggestion you are making.
EEL: Travis Elliott, March 2, 2026