- Title
- The Apology Workshop
- Genre
- Drama
- Premise
- A recently divorced man attends a council-run conflict-resolution workshop after a hedge dispute and discovers the room is full of people he has quietly annoyed.
- Specific job/task
- He must complete a role-play apology in front of the group and fill in a reflection form before he can leave.
- Precise setting detail
- The workshop is held in a carpeted community room annex, with laminated name cards and a flipchart headed ‘Impact Before Intention’.
- Mundane system complication
- The facilitator insists everyone use real examples, and the neighbour has brought printed photographs of the hedge.
- Decision that turns the story
- He chooses to apologise only for the hedge’s ‘possible interpretation’, which exposes how little he thinks he has done wrong.