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Activity 2. Introduction: First of all, briefly introducing the agenda of this workshop, the background of the facilitator, and the safety announcement. It helps the participants understand the rough content and why the facilitator gives this workshop today. Due to the sensitivity of this topic, the safety announcement encourages the participants to know they are always in charge of their feelings and allows them to speak freely. Section 1: Raising the awareness of bodily autonomous 2. Warm-up activity: After the brief introduction of the workshop, the researcher plans a warm-up activity for participants to energize up. The activity takes about 10 to 15 minutes. This warm-up activity is designed based on the proxemic theory by Hall (Hall et al., 1968). It intends to let the participants be “bodily” prepared by experiencing the three kinds of different body boundaries. Therefore, there are many colorful circular papers on the ground, and each paper
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is placed at a designated distance. The distance between blue papers is 1.2 meters, the green ones are 0.8 meters, and the yellow ones are 0.5 meters. (Figure 6.2)
asked to share their results with their team buddies. The sharing order also follows the previous order (bluegreen - yellow) of warm-up activity.
The participants are asked to stand on the blue circular paper on the ground in the beginning and match up with a team buddy for the whole first section. When all participants finish this step, the facilitator guides them with a first ice break talk. During this warm-up activity, the participants sequentially move through three colorful circular papers (bluegreen - yellow) and have a small talk with guided topics. Every small talk takes up to around 2 minutes. While finishing all steps, the facilitator asks them back to their seat and ensures they sit beside their team buddy.
Then, all participants are asked to share noteworthy observations with everyone. They are gradually guided through these gradual sharing steps to prepare for the following lecture about bodily autonomy. 3. Lecture: The lecture contains the topic related to bodily autonomy. The cultural difference in body boundaries is introduced starting from the theory of proxemics the participants experienced from warm-up activity.(Figure 6.4) After introducing the body boundary between people, the lecture starts to focus on the person themself. The concept of bodily integrity, which includes bodily autonomous and privacy, is presented. In the bodily autonomous part, it defines the term and specifies the essential elements included. The emphasis on the right
Figure 6.4 Three categories of horizontal distance of Proxemics theory (Hall, 1966)
that everyone has with their body is also placed in this part. Afterward, the different perceptions of privacy based on culture are introduced. In this part, the concept of Lewin’s circle (Trompenaars & Hampden-Turner, 1993) shows two different cultural styles of perceiving the boundary on public and private matters. (Figure 6.5) The misunderstandings are easy to cause while lacking this knowledge. Additionally, the two communication styles of high & low contextual cultures (Nishimura et al., 2008) assist in explaining the reason behind those misperceptions. Finally, some tips to communicate
Figure 6.3 The two way observation form
While they sit back, the facilitator asks them to finish the two-way observation form (Figure 6.3) on their desk. They have 1 to 2 minutes to write their observations down silently. Continuously, the participants are Figure 6.2 The simulation of warm-up activity 84
Figure 6.5 The Lewins’ circle 85
