Thursday, February 21, 2013

OBSERVATIONS - Pip Wilson Question/reflections/input.




Yes -  a couple of days ago I published this image of this Blob group and asked for observations.
I asked::



"Note four things about this group.
I will give you my four tomorrow.

The bigger challenge is to observe a real alive human group.
Observing for positive reasons."

My 4/5 are::
  1. Two have not got arms around others.
  2. One is the leader of the group.
  3. One is being given the most attention. See eye contact.
  4. One is feeling unhappy/uneasy.
  5. One is about to disengage - stepping back.

It was interesting that the feedback I received was more about FEELINGS (which I love) rather than physical observations - reading behaviour!
That was stepping in deeper than I expected - actually practicing EMOTIONAL LITERACY.
Articulating feelings - a skill so neglected - yet so needed in people work.

In facilitation I often get participant processing through those steps::
!   Clocking behaviour.
2   Estimating what the FEELINGS are of all the individuals.

Next step is using movies in training and then in real life - that is the big one.

Thank you for participating you beautifuls ..............