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But it all started from an instance that turned out to be a moment of revelation for them. As Mahajan and Parchure sat silently under a moonlit sky to enjoy the strains of music that Mahajan was playing, little did they know that moments in store would change their life so drastically. "As Vidur, went through his practice, I noticed the changes in his pace exploring the emotions that were evoked in that brief hour. To me, it seemed so much like the way relationships developed between people and amongst groups," recollects Parchure. This triggered a discussion and as Mahajan talked more about music and Parchure about the team development theories, they went through many eureka moments that lead to a consensus that team building and development could be studied and improvised through music. This was four years back, and all these years the two kept experimenting on this theme using corporate training programmes that Parchure runs. "But it was clear to us that we needed a different way of thinking to present it as an experience for the audience to make this learning transferable to the workplace," adds Mahajan.
And this different toy turned out to be a Boom-whacker that is a set of tubes of differing lengths that makes the notes of Sa re ga ma pa when tapped on the ground. Using this toy they were able to simulate the stages of development of teams in a two hours experience. But the real test happened on March 30, as Mahajan and Parchure presented this workshop model at the International Conference of the Association for Experiential Education in US. In fact, Parchure has been one of the four Indians to attend this conference for the past nine years regularly. "As often as I can, I attend these conferences where some 1500 innovative play scientists get together to learn and explore. However this year I decided to attend the regional conferences too where I sent the proposal for our module that got accepted," he says. The workshop turned out to be a huge success, so much so that the duo has been invited to perform at the International Conference in November this year with a three-hour format of 80 minutes. "We do find the time frame restricting but we plan to further build on the structure of a composition as we draw parallels to group development," they conclude.
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