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Thursday, March 5, 2015
Conferences
Earlier this week at Parent/Teacher conferences, I put something from Kelli's presentation in action. There were a few parents that night that seemed a little uncomfortable. To help make them feel more comfortable, I thought I would try doing a little mirroring, like we learned from the presentation last Friday. I would turn my body, slouch, fold my hands on the table, or lean forward as I saw the different parents doing. The ones I mirrored with seemed to become for comfortable, more talkative, and I ended up having longer, more meaningful conferences with those parents. The parents that were challenging to mirror, seemed comfortable right away, or seemed to be in a bit of a hurry all kept their conferences significantly shorter. It was an interesting experiment, and I learned that mirroring really does work!
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I think this technique is helpful but weird at the same time. I would have a hard time at not trying to mock the other person.
ReplyDeleteI think this technique is helpful but weird at the same time. I would have a hard time at not trying to mock the other person.
ReplyDeleteSlow, smooth, fluid movements seemed to work well :)
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