Introduction

This is a "low impact" form of roleplay - minimal dramatic skills are required. A paper based version of the exercise is the The AMBIT Pro-Gram, and a more directly clinical tool that addresses the same topic of Dis-integration is the Dis-integration grid.

A Sculpt is one of the Training exercises AMBIT uses, and is designed to help teams to:

• Visualise the large and complex networks around young people
• Take multiple perspectives from the positions of various protagonists (note Positioning Theory)
• Map out Dis-integrations in physical space that might otherwise be mapped via the Dis-integration grid

What you need

• Space to move people around, chairs

Example

Activity

• Invite one person (or a small group) to describe a clinical scenario from their experience
• Brief history of the case
• Start with the index client, and arrange other figures in ways that reflect their relationship with each other
• Close relationship - sit them close together, looking at each other
• Distant relationship - sit them far apart
• Consider whether you want them seated in a "face-off", or turned away from each other, etc, etc
• Add all members of the immediate family first
• Then extended family, peers, friends
• Then significant others (Pastor, Imam, Coach, etc..)
• Then complete the Professional network
• with each professional, consider the 3 levels of dis-integration that the Dis-integration grid uses
• What is their EXPLANATION for why they are involved: "What's the problem?"
• What is their intended INTERVENTION: "What to do?"
• What is their understanding of systemic RESPONSIBILITIES: "Who does what?"

• Once the network is sculpted "as it is", ask key "players" to talk about how it might feel for their character to be in this position.
• Try to re-organise the network
• Re-arrange characters in ways that the main protagonists might start to experience them as more accessible, helpful, etc.
• What are the barriers to such systemic change?
• What are the most glaring Dis-integrations in the network?