The next thing I introduced people to was the idea of working in threes (usually in workshops here we work in pairs). However, some people wanted to work in their usual pairs and I felt that it was really important to respect that. I wanted people to consider the idea of plaiting the bread together, intertwining themselves with each other.
I also needed to introduce the idea of the evaluation of the workshop, which wasn’t going to happen at the end but all throughout: People were asked to note moments of warmth and of kindness in their interactions together and whenever they felt this, that their working together was going well and made them feel good, they were to put a ceramic baking bean in the metal tin in front of them. This sound would be recorded throughout the bread-making part of the workshop.
