Active roleplay

In this section

• Active roleplay overview

  The leader's your role is crucial in maintaining the meaningful connection between physical challenges and the refugee experience you're representing. This section guides you through the transformative journey you're supervising.

• Uncomfortable sleep

  After tahajjud prayer, participants attempt to rest on the hard floor, fully clothed in their abayas and hijabs, without blankets or cushions. This period of uncomfortable sleep is a crucial element of the Trials & Tribulations experience.

• Embracing discomfort

  Throughout the assault course, participants will face multiple forms of discomfort. As a leader, your role is to help them understand that this is not to be avoided, but embraced as part of their transformative journey.

• Balance beams

  Balance beams mirror the precarious paths refugees must navigate, from rickety bridges over dangerous rivers, narrow mountain paths, walking on train tracks for miles.

• Barbed wire crawl

  Barbed wire represents the literal barriers refugees face at borders, crawling under or around fences in vulnerable positions, with constant threat of injury or detection.

• Cargo net climbing

  This obstacle represents the unstable bridges, damaged infrastructure, and makeshift crossings refugees encounter, where one wrong move could mean falling back into danger.

• Crawling under cargo netting

  This obstacle represents the vulnerable positions refugees must adopt to avoid detection, moving through spaces where standing up would mean being spotted by authorities or hostile forces.

• Crawling under logs

  This obstacle represents the desperate measures refugees take to avoid detection, navigating obstacles that force them into vulnerable positions where discovery could mean capture or death.

• Heavy carries

  Heavy carries represent the exhausting reality of refugees carrying essential belongings, water, supplies, or even family members across vast distances.

• Muddy ditches

  These obstacles mirror the treacherous, muddy terrain refugees traverse when roads become impassable that make progress painfully slow, all while carrying essential belongings and supporting family members.

• Platform jumps

  Platform jumps represent moments where refugees must take desperate leaps, jumping from moving trains, leaping from boats into rough waters, or dropping from dangerous heights when there's no other escape route.

• Rope swings

  Rope swings represent moments where refugees must take leaps of faith, that require overcoming fear and trusting in something uncertain to reach safety.

• Tackling the tyre wall

  Tyre walls represent the improvised barriers and unstable structures refugees encounter, climbing border fences or road blocks.

• Tunnel crawling

  Tunnels represent the covert routes refugees sometimes must take to avoid detection. These spaces are cramped, frightening, and require suppressing panic while moving toward an uncertain exit.

• Tyre obstacles

  Tyre obstacles represent the unexpected debris and hazards that litter refugee routes, where every step must be tested before committing weight.

• Wall climbing

  Walls represent the literal and symbolic barriers refugees face from border walls and checkpoint barriers to obstacles designed to keep people out.

• Water wading

  Water crossings represent some of the most dangerous moments of refugee journeys, crossing cold rivers, wading through flood waters, or enduring the shock of entering the sea.