Fire drill as preparation
The idea for this contribution in the writing challenge by Hans van Gemert was given to me by FrutselenIndeMarge. It's just my reaction to her ' Through the fire for you .
Fire Exercise in Therapy Time
Somewhere in the 90s of the last century I spent 9 months in a psychotherapeutic community. In itself, the setting does not really matter, but in this case I think it is appropriate to mention it here.
As clients, we were in double rooms. The main purpose was to learn a lot about yourself and to emerge stronger from this stage of life as a human being. A phase full of depression, trauma processing and socialization.
Like everywhere where more people sit continuously on each other's lips for a long period of time, there was also a (planned) #firedrill needful. Complete with the actual commitment of the often voluntary corps of the fire brigade.
Fire right in front of our room door
My roommate and I knew the exercise was there. But we didn't know exactly when it would start and what would happen. So we kept waiting - according to the instructions - for our room. At some point we should notice that there was a fire. At least that was our line of thought.
