We did a blind mission for our group facilitation . We came up this idea when we go through chapter 6 of People skills book. Since the main topic of the chapter 6 was the importance of non- verbals and body language, we would like to see what could happen when we block one of the most important senses during our group facilitation. There are two things we tried to prove. Firstly, we would like to see how others could communicate one another when they have the barrier of communication. To fulfill the first condition we made other classmates cover their eyes with bandages which we prepared. Secondly, we wanted to see if the degree of intimacy affects us when we have communication with others. When we feel awkward with others we tend to have hard time with having a conversation. So we tried to prove that this hypothesis could be applicable to this facilitation. To complement this, at the beginning , we made the classmates form the random group and we let them go back to their usual group.
While we proceeded with our facilitation there were two things that we overlooked. Firstly, we didn’t think about the heat coming from wearing the bandages. Since the weather was quite hot on that day, most of the classmates said it was hot and uncomfortable to wear bandage. And this factor resulted in the low rate of participation. We should have bought the bandage which is more comfortable or done this facilitation in more spacious place where there is air conditioning. And we overlooked the fact that there would be some people who were reluctant to doing our activity. Although we thought all students would participate in our activity, some of them looked as if they were waiting for the end of our activity.
But there were two things that we could prove through our facilitation. As we expected, the classmates seemed like that they had harder time to direct to their team members when they are in random group. On the other hand, It took shorter time for them to accomplish the mission when they are in their usual group. Through our facilitation we could know that intimacy can be influential when we have a conversation. Because they seemed awkward and uncomfortable with their new team members. I reckon this result can be applicable to work.According to an article, In work if we have just formal or official atmosphere with coworkers or superiors, we won’t speak our opinion freely. But in these days the majority of companies are trying to remove this barriers between them and co- workers by having intimate relationship one another. Through this, the workers seems to speak their thoughts or opinions more freely. Also we could learn lesson that the body language is crucial when we communicate with others in daily life. Not to mention it was more important when they couldn’t rely on one of their major senses. Thanks to this activity, I could realize that i should use the body language more properly to have conversation with others without barriers.
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ROBERT BOLTON, PH.D. PEOPLE SKILLS
http://www.hkbs.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=500408 2019/02/12 < Body language is more than 100 words>
2019/05/13 < Peculiar ways of communicating>
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