Eye Contact Workshop Activities

Status mingle

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Start with eye contact instructions (2 groups) & mingle
switch roles & mingle
choose and change status
Explore external vs. internal

One Person One Thought

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In groups, each player takes a turn talking for 90 seconds while expressing one thought at a time to one person.

Eye Contact Count

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In small groups, speaker must hold eye contact with each person for 5 seconds at a time while speaking about any topic

Brownian Motion (stop and start as group)

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Silent exercise. Three modes of walking at the top of the exercise: neutral walk, fast/hurried walk, slow walk. Then add full stop, then stop & jump, then any mode. Whole group responds when it changes.

Eye contact scene initiation

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begin scene with partners making silent eye contact

Go! with Name Game

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