Sharing Circle Research Paper

You know what makes those grade school “get to know you!” games ulcer-inducing? Being the only kid in class without an easy answer. At the beginning of each school year, without fail, our teachers would herd us into sharing circles and we were forced to choose an easy self-identifier to share with the class. In order for you to truly understand how I feel about sharing circles, here is what I imagine hell to be like: Everyone is forced to stand in an eternal, godawful sharing circle and watch, with dread welling up in their stomach, as yellow-smock, rosy cheeked Jessica announces her fun sharing fact is her unwavering love for the color blue; and tousled hair, light up sketchers Andrew divulges he was born in Santa Barbara. Like me, they will all watch as it gets closer and closer to their turn to share and, like me, they will all contemplate staging cardiac arrest to escape their inevitable fate. Obviously, some would argue that an eternity of burning in hellfire is a lot worse than an eternity of sharing circle-related anxiety, but those people have probably spent very little time in a sharing circle. A big part of my hatred for these circles …show more content…
But there 's no easy self identifier that can explain an entire human, and sometimes self-identifiers make others who don 't fit into an easy category feel alien and isolated when they have no reason to be. Your identity should not be comprised of simple tags, it 's easy to know when friends describe people as “the one with the nose” that their nose isn 't the only thing that characterizes them. However, it 's harder for people to accept that if they are unable to characterize themselves using “the simplest terms and most convenient definitions”1 that they are not, somehow,