The idea of role playing to change the way our brains work is magnificent and powerful judetrederwolff!
Have you read The Body Keeps the Score by van der Kolk? There’s a chapter in there about improv therapy. Reliving the trauma from a position of control is one of the ways that people release the negative emotion from the memory of the experience. It’s a way to rewire our brains.
I wrote about it a little bit in this and other articles.
Improv is good for lots more than brain rewiring, too!
I wonder what you think of some of the exercises I do in my engineering classes that help teach teamwork?