Bobby Boucher, 31-year-old socially inept water boy with a stutter and secret anger issues. These hidden anger issues are due to the constant teasing from his peers over the years and immense sheltering by his mother, Helen. When Bobby was a teenager, he became the waterboy for the University of Louisiana Cougars, a major championship-caliber college program. However, the players always torment Bobby and the team's head coach, Red Beaulieu, eventually fires him for "disrupting" the team's practices. Bobby then approaches Coach Klein of the far more austere South Central Louisiana State University (SCLSU) Mud Dogs and asks to work as the team's water boy. Bobby insists he be the waterboy after seeing a keg of heavily polluted water that coach
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The same tactic he uses on the football field to tackle whoever needs to be tackled. Right as Bobby gets to the door, he turns to the professor, yells and charges him tackling the professor to the ground. Other guys in the class run up to Bobby to get him up off the professor. As they are pulling Bobby off the ground Bobby says, “It's okay to fight back. Coach Klein said I could. Mr Coach Klein said I could. It's fine, fellas.”
This is an interpersonal conflict between Bobby Boucher and his Professor. The class is in a pseudo-community in the beginning of the conflict, then turns to chaos once the conflict arises. The class is excluding Bobby, judging him for what he was saying, and using him as a scapegoat of ridicule.
I would interview Bobby and the professor since they were the two directly involved with the conflict. There was a lot of verbal aggression between the two which turned into physical aggression. Some questions I would ask …show more content…
I see they are flip flopping between pseudo-community and chaos, so I want to facilitate a community building exercise with them to help get them back to the community stage. I also have an idea for the emptying where we write something down on a piece of paper that we want to let go of, let off our chest, or just something that needs to be said. With that piece of paper we will each say out loud what we wrote on the paper, and once we finish reading it, we will give a little backstory on why we wrote what we did, and to finally empty ourself from it, or throw it away, we will throw the piece of paper in the
The same tactic he uses on the football field to tackle whoever needs to be tackled. Right as Bobby gets to the door, he turns to the professor, yells and charges him tackling the professor to the ground. Other guys in the class run up to Bobby to get him up off the professor. As they are pulling Bobby off the ground Bobby says, “It's okay to fight back. Coach Klein said I could. Mr Coach Klein said I could. It's fine, fellas.”
This is an interpersonal conflict between Bobby Boucher and his Professor. The class is in a pseudo-community in the beginning of the conflict, then turns to chaos once the conflict arises. The class is excluding Bobby, judging him for what he was saying, and using him as a scapegoat of ridicule.
I would interview Bobby and the professor since they were the two directly involved with the conflict. There was a lot of verbal aggression between the two which turned into physical aggression. Some questions I would ask …show more content…
I see they are flip flopping between pseudo-community and chaos, so I want to facilitate a community building exercise with them to help get them back to the community stage. I also have an idea for the emptying where we write something down on a piece of paper that we want to let go of, let off our chest, or just something that needs to be said. With that piece of paper we will each say out loud what we wrote on the paper, and once we finish reading it, we will give a little backstory on why we wrote what we did, and to finally empty ourself from it, or throw it away, we will throw the piece of paper in the