Perception

Breakroom Exercise

Part 1

While each person shares, the rest of the group listens without providing feedback.

1. Share a time when someone treated you a certain way because of how they perceived you.

a) What did they do?

b) How did that make you feel?

c) How did you react? (What you did as a response to their treatment.)

2. If you were having that experience again how would you react now and what result would you want to see?

Part 2

While each person shares, the rest of the group listens without providing feedback.

1. Share a time you treated someone a certain way due to how you perceived them.

a) How did you perceive them?

b) What did you do?

c) How did they respond?

d) Why did you perceive them the way you did? (Provide the source that shaped your perceptions such as family, peers, education, religion, politics, culture, environment, media, and experience.)

2. Would you do anything different now? If yes, what would you do?