Activites: Non Verbal

Nonverbal communication causes us to make many judgments and assumptions. The exercises that follow are designed to help you understand how much information we transmit with nonverbal communication. Nonverbal Activity 1: Wordless Acting 1. Separate students into groups of two. 2. Determine one student in each group as student A, and one as student B. 3. Give each student a copy of the following script. 4. Student A will read his lines out loud, but student B will communicate his lines in a nonverbal way. 5. Provide B with a secret emotional distraction that is written on a piece of paper. For example, student B may be in a rush, may be really bored, or may be feeling guilty. 6. After the dialogue, ask each student A to guess what emotion was affecting the student's partner student B. Dialogue: A: Have you seen my book? I cant remember where I put it. B: Which one? A: The murder mystery. The one you borrowed. B: Is this it? A: No. Its the one you borrowed. B. I did not! A: Maybe its under the chair. Can you look? B: OK--just give me a minute. A: How long are you going to be? B: Geez, why so impatient? I hate when you get bossy. A: Forget it. Ill find it myself. B: WaitI found it! Nonverbal Activity 2: We Have to Move Now! 1. Cut several strips of paper. 2. On each strip of paper, write down a mood or a disposition like guilty, happy, suspicious, paranoid, insulted, or insecure. 3. Fold the strips of paper and put them into a bowl. They will be prompts. 4. Have each student take a prompt from the bowl and read the same sentence to the class, expressing the mood theyve picked. 5. Students will read the sentence: "We all need to gather our possessions and move to another building as soon as possible!"

6. Students should write down assumptions they make about each student as they read their prompts.
Grooming

Grooming We can plan to have cutting of various pictures- gents & ladies from different magazines & paste it on chart papers. Let us ask the participant about the pros/cons of pictures. For example- picture showing AAmir in Ghazini poster says a lot about the dressing sense, even Raymond ad in magazine says a lot about dressing sense. Regards

Listening Skills Make A Story Objectives To increase listening skills within the group. Method This game is similar to the chain message outlined above and is best suited to small groups While sitting in a small circle, participants are asked to construct a story by each participant adding one line at a time (e.g., As he got off his horse, he saw a big rabbit). This continues with each additional participant adding another line until everyone has contributed at least two lines. There are many variations to this game but it highlights the value of listening to others.