Xin Rui’s Experience (Facilitator) [he/him]

As my journey with different batches of WoTS participants continues, I continue to find myself amazed by the development and growth that participants go through, both individually and as a group. But we facilitators can hardly take all the credit. After all, while we do provide the framework, it is up to the participants to be sufficiently open minded to explore the possibilities laid out in front of them.

Facilitation is a negotiation. It is a delicate dance between leading and following, finding the roads between what the programme is about and what the participants are interested in. And as with most such two-way interactions, I find that there is much for facilitators to learn from participants as well. Each person is unique, and a part of the difficulty, but also fun, is to find the approaches that work best for each and every individual even as we engage with the entire room.

Life contains many contradictions, as does art, and the WoTS programme is no exception. But it is in weaving our way through these contradictions, rather than rejecting or avoiding them altogether, that we can arrive at more interesting conclusions and conceptions of ourselves. And from there, its up to us to create our own unique space.