How many passes? – Train your attention!

Though we always pay attention 🙂 we oversee many things that could help solution finding. It’s not a question of intelligence. Human’s intelligence is not that big anyway. It’s a question of focussing. A video on Youtube proves the phenomenon. You are invited to test your own ability of paying attention.

How many passes can you count?

The problem of focussing could be observed in our trainings before already. Students intend to comment single sentences and facts they observe during the mediation. This way of focussing is not mediation like. It becomes an obstacle for mediators, as they are going to loose the view on context and on the story behind. Context and the story behind are more important than single sentences and single facts. The whole picture is the means we should work with.

Now in that video above, the observer focusses the passes. He oversees the trespassing gorilla. In IM trainings it became a crucial content to teach mediators methods how to observe and perceipt things the best way. We devide observes in groups where one group is the cinema visitor. Cinema visitors do not have to check more than context and story behind. Its always amazing to see the different conclusions of cinema visitors and other oberservers. But of course there are more methods how to train attention and focussing. However a mediator, who passed those trainings, would have seen the gorilla. He wouldn’t be able to answer the question about passes. What we see is that mediators are just humans also.