"Sometimes a change of Perspective is all it takes to see the light." - Dan Brown
It's so true that we all see things differently to one another, yet it can be really hard sometimes to believe that someone is seeing something from a different perspective to you. It can cause conflict and can damage relationships if left un-dealt with.
Working with young people has taught me so much about myself and also given me tools to support friends and family sometimes facing difficulty in agreeing or in understanding what is happening for the other person.
A worker last week told me this useful exercise to explain perspective to young people, put a box out in front of them and ask them to draw what they can see, from where they are sat. (The box might have numbers/drawings or words on, it doesn't really matter).
You, the worker (or second person taking part) then draw the box as you see it from a different angle of course.
The two drawings will be completely different and no one person will have drawn it correctly or more accurate than the other. Therefore, a conversation about perspective can be had and how we all see things from different angles, it doesn't mean that one person's view has more onus over the other, it just means that we need to consider other peoples perspective of things first before fully accepting the perspective that we have as the only one possible.
You may struggle to adapt your thinking, so try this,
Put a box (or any object to be fair) out in front of you, think about the activity above, start by telling yourself that you believe only what you see and start to think about the other sides of the "object" in front of you and try to imagine or remember what may be on the other sides that can be seen from different perspectives..
It's so true that we all see things differently to one another, yet it can be really hard sometimes to believe that someone is seeing something from a different perspective to you. It can cause conflict and can damage relationships if left un-dealt with.
Working with young people has taught me so much about myself and also given me tools to support friends and family sometimes facing difficulty in agreeing or in understanding what is happening for the other person.
A worker last week told me this useful exercise to explain perspective to young people, put a box out in front of them and ask them to draw what they can see, from where they are sat. (The box might have numbers/drawings or words on, it doesn't really matter).
You, the worker (or second person taking part) then draw the box as you see it from a different angle of course.
The two drawings will be completely different and no one person will have drawn it correctly or more accurate than the other. Therefore, a conversation about perspective can be had and how we all see things from different angles, it doesn't mean that one person's view has more onus over the other, it just means that we need to consider other peoples perspective of things first before fully accepting the perspective that we have as the only one possible.
You may struggle to adapt your thinking, so try this,
Put a box (or any object to be fair) out in front of you, think about the activity above, start by telling yourself that you believe only what you see and start to think about the other sides of the "object" in front of you and try to imagine or remember what may be on the other sides that can be seen from different perspectives..
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