"Still Life with Union Movement"
Learned a great opening activity in the Labor Education study group I participate in at Meiji University's Labor Media and Education Center. Needs a good title -- "Still Life with Union Movement"?
The activity is similar to Statues (where participants use other participants to create a statue representing an idea or situation).
Facilitator piles up three or four chairs in the middle of the room, some on top of others, in a jumble.
She asks participants to think of this pile of chairs as "The Union Movement."