Ethnography

Ethnography

November 9, 2014

Shoulders to lean on (or just tap on)

We had decided to try something new in the area.
Mister Meerkat had been saying that our group could use tightening.
So we performed a little exercise.
Minnie took us outside and we had our eyes closed.
One person had open eyes, and got to tap on someone's shoulder when Minnie said an attribute that the unBlind person thought fit them.
Though, interestingly, this was all semi-anonymous, it had an interesting after-effect. Mr. Zebra, cool Shades, Round Face, Minnie, and Wildebeest were all pretty pleased with it, as was Mister Meerkat.
We had all ended up complimenting each other without knowing who, and we seemed to hang around longer after to chit chat.
Minnie seemed especially pleased, and was all smiles and banter. Round face was pleased as well and shoved Mr. Zebra casually in an expression of jovial banter.
On my end, it was a surprising exercise- as was the feedback from Round Face and Cool Shades- that some of the taps were pleasantly surprising.
Cool Shades chatted with Round Face and I, in a closer proximal zone than before.
I've noticed that between Mr. Zebra and everyone else, and between Cool Shades and everyone else, that the proximal zone has been lessening.
The exercise seemed to have died it down a bit as well.

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