At TMS we love coming up with new games and activities that are quick and easy to facilitate.
This week I’ll show you five fresh energisers you can add into your own workshops. We’ll post one a day. These energisers play with your senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch.
The general purpose is to highlight how we all experience the world in different ways. When using Team Management Profiles you can tie these energisers to TMS theory by stating that one way to understand differences is by looking at work preferences!
Below are some step by step instructions on how to facilitate your first energiser.
Energiser 1 - What do you see?
1. Place a visual illusion on a PowerPoint slide like the one below from Illusionking.com
2. Show the image to your participants and ask them “What is the first thing you see?”. Some people may first see the man’s head, others may see the lady with the baby standing under the archway or the old man next to her.
3. Ask them to look further and point out any other objects. People may see the dog lying on it’s side. They may also see faces in the sky such as those framed by the bird on the left.
I like to point out here that it’s amazing what we can see when we look a little harder.
4. If you think participants can find more, ask them to stand up and peer closer to the image. Or give them a print out of the image which they can twist and turn to find more faces!
After step 4, I like to point out that it’s remarkable what we can see when we look at things from a different angle.
So that’s your first energiser for this week! Tomorrow we’ll look at your sense of sound.
Warm wishes,
Sarah Eqbal
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Love your energisers and
Submitted by Menaka Cooke (not verified) on Fri, 08/04/2011 - 10:13am.Love your energisers and tips.
Menaka
Your favourite energisers
Submitted by Sarah (not verified) on Fri, 08/04/2011 - 4:18pm.Thanks Menaka.
If you have any favourite energisers of your own I would love to hear them!
Perception & Sexual Harassment
Submitted by Srini (not verified) on Thu, 30/09/2010 - 3:54am.I use a similar exercise when conducting sexual harassment class. I open the session by showing the old woman/young woman and vase and 2 faces picture and ask the participants to tell me what is the first picture they see. Then highlight how perception plays a role in the way we think - and connect it to sexual harassment - by stating an example that while one person might think of touching as being friendly the other person might perceive that as sexual harassment.
A nice reminder
Submitted by Sarah Eqbal (not verified) on Tue, 05/10/2010 - 12:42pm.Thanks for sharing your thoughts Srini.
It's a nice reminder of how versatile training activities can be. I would love to hear your ideas around other activities trainers can use to explore perceptions at work!
Changing perceptions
Submitted by Sarah Eqbal (not verified) on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 12:02pm.My absolute pleasure Judy, I'm happy you liked it.
I very much like your point that "We can change our perception whenever we wish and build new hard wiring." This highlights so many opportunities for improving how we work from how we communicate to how we innovate to how we make important decisions. This is also a great reminder that changing perceptions is possible, even though sometimes it seems impossible!
Best wishes,
Sarah
Energiser 1
Submitted by Judy Wiliams (not verified) on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 9:39am.Thank you for sharing this tool. I really love the way you describe it and how to use it. It also links well with the brain science that I am studying. We don't see what we are not looking for. The brain accesses its hard wiring to see what it sees. If we are only looking for a specific image, behaviour or experience that is all we will see. This is a result of our life experience and our perception. We can change our perception whenever we wish and build new hard wiring.