These skills exercises are designed to help you to build your level of skills in a sequence that will support your learning on the course input days. We like to give you as much as possible on the formal input sessions so the more you practise the more you will gain from these sessions. These exercises will consist of building on initial observation, taking notes of your observation, matching what you observe and later active exploration and change work.
These daily tasks are designed to take very little time. Decide on a few spare moments where you can give full attention, even if only for a minute or two. For example on day one, any spare moments on the first half of the day notice examples of yourself and those around ‘chunking very big’; on the second half of the day when you notice also match chunking big (on the inside if it is not suitable to do so on the outside!).
Some of the tasks require “LIVE” situations, others can successfully be completed using T.V. or radio programmes.
If you use “LIVE” situations please be very VERY careful and give due consideration to the privacy and welfare of those you include.
Week Ten
| Day: | Sensory skills: | Task: |
|---|---|---|
| One | Moving away from | Notice |
| Two | Moving towards | Notice |
| Three | Paying attention to Self | Notice |
| Four | Paying attention to others | Notice |
| Five | Paying attention to Differences | Notice |
| Six | Paying attention to Sameness | Notice |
| Seven | Pick one you missed or found difficult. | Notice |
Week Eleven
| Day: | Sensory skills: | Task: |
|---|---|---|
| One | Attention toward and Away From People | Notice |
| Two | Attention toward and away from Activities | Notice |
| Three | Attention toward and away from Places | Notice |
| Four | Attention toward and away from Things | Notice |
| Five | Attention toward and away from Information | Notice |
| Six | Attention toward and away from People | Notice |
| Seven | Pick one you missed or found difficult. |
Week Twelve
| Day: | Sensory skills: | Task: |
|---|---|---|
| One | (Potentially) Positive Upset | Notice |
| Two | (Potentially) Negative Upset | Notice |
| Three | Enhancing Set-Up | Notice |
| Four | Limiting Set-Up | Notice |
| Five | Limiting Set-Down | Notice |
| Six | Enhancing Set-Down | Notice |
| Seven | Pick one you missed or found difficult. | Notice |
Week Thirteen
| Day: | Sensory skills: | Task: |
|---|---|---|
| One | Voice pitch | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Two | Voice tempo | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Three | Sentence length | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Four | Voice tonality | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Five | Sensory predicates | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Six | Pick one you missed or found difficult. | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Seven | All of the above | Half day: notice Half day: match |
Week Fourteen
| Day: | Sensory skills: | Task: |
|---|---|---|
| One | Eye movements and Breathing | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Two | Hand movements and Breathing | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Three | Voice tempo and Body Posture | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Four | Breathing and Language Predicates | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Five | Facial changes and Body Posture | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Six | Pick one you missed or found difficult. | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Seven | All of the above | Notice |
Week Fifteen
| Day: | Sensory skills: | Task: |
|---|---|---|
| One | Eye movements and Breathing | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Two | Hand movements and Body Posture | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Three | Breathing and Voice tempo | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Four | Eye movements and Language predicates | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Five | Facial changes and Head position | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Six | Body posture and Breathing | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Seven | Pick one you missed or found difficult. | Half day: notice Half day: match |
Week Sixteen
| Day: | Sensory skills: | Task: |
|---|---|---|
| One | Very big chunk size | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Two | Very small chunk size | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Three | Sensory specific | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Four | Detailed Abstract | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Five | Moving from detail to big chunk | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Six | Moving from big chunk to detail | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Seven | Pick one you missed or found difficult. | Half day: notice Half day: match |
Week Seventeen
| Day: | Sensory skills: | Task: |
|---|---|---|
| One | Examples of the ‘WHAT’ frame | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Two | Examples of the ‘HOW’ frame | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Three | Examples of the ‘Why’’ frame | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Four | Examples of the ‘PROBLEM’ frame | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Five | Examples of the ‘OUTCOME’ frame | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Six | Examples of the ‘DIRECTION’ frame | Half day: notice Half day: match |
| Seven | Pick one you missed or found difficult. | Half day: notice Half day: match |
Week Eighteen
| Day: | Sensory skills: | Task: |
|---|---|---|
| One | DETAILS | Notice |
| Two | SCOPE | Notice |
| Three | CONNECTIONS | Notice |
| Four | DETAILS | Notice and take a note of them. |
| Five | SCOPE | Notice and take a note of them. |
| Six | CONNECTIONS | Notice and take a note of them. |
| Seven | Pick one you missed or found more difficult | Notice and take a note of them. |
Week Nineteen
| Day: | Sensory skills: | Task: |
|---|---|---|
| One | Eye movements and Breathing | Match and take a note of results |
| Two | Hand movements and Body posture | Match and take a note of results |
| Three | Breathing and Voice tempo | Match and take a note of results |
| Four | Eye movements and Language Predicates | Match and take a note of results |
| Five | Facial changes and Head position | Match and take a note of results |
| Six | Body posture and Breathing | Match and take a note of results |
| Seven | Pick one you missed or found more difficult | Match and take a note of results |