Emphasis Preaching Journal

Management training groups sometimes use an exercise designed to build trust, whereby team members physically uphold the body of another member of their team. It requires good communication, and successful completion of the exercise increases the emotional connection between members of the team. The experience is very much like being cradled, and the physical experience of something that we as adults have not experienced for decades brings about a renewed childlike trust between the person being upheld and the team doing the upholding.