Solo Duo Holo
Support the integration process after a shared experience by revisiting it alone, in pairs and in a group.
SDH is based on several action-research projects. It is developed by Benoît Verjat with feedback and contributions from Sabine Zahn, Boris Nordmann, Patrick Degeorges, Quartier Rouge and Tanguy Wermelinger.
Integration
The Solo Duo Holo (SDH) integration practice is designed to support the process of integration after a shared experience, by revisiting it alone, in pairs and in a group. SDH aims to support the individual and collective integration of a shared experience, enabling participants to revisit the experience in its multiple physical, psychic, somatic, emotional, factual or relational dimensions. The process generally takes place immediately after the experience, avoiding post-practice exchanges.
Solo
In the "Solo" phase, each participant takes a moment to record his or her memories and feelings of the experience chronologically on a few sheets of paper. This introspective, silent moment densifies the experience by allowing participants to witness their own past activity. Participants mobilize their memories of space, body and thoughts to capture gestures, their effects and the things that mobilize their attention.
Duo
The "Duo" phase involves working on the translation of experience in pairs. A witness recounts selected moments of his or her experience, while the listener traces in reaction to the narrative and supports the word with clarifying questions. This dialogue enables us to test words, images, metaphors and modes of storytelling, avoiding conceptualization and focusing on experience.
Holo
Finally, the "Holo" phase brings the group together to make visible the space opened up by the experience. Participants share an important term, notion or entity from the experience, describing the circumstances in which it emerged, and its effect on their relationship to the experience. They allow questions raised by the experience to emerge, and record them collectively. The session ends with the writing of a letter addressed to the group or an entity, to express what has not been said.
In this way, SDH offers a structured yet flexible practice that enables collective experiences to be revisited and integrated in a way that thickens them. While this practice can be a tool for collecting feedback, its primary intention is to amplify participants' experience by revisiting it.