Group exercise

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Group exercise

• Fruit salad

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Exercise 3 general instructions

• The Fruit Salad Exercise Purpose To
  demonstrate how sending mixed messages can cause
  confusion. Time 15 minutes Materials 1 room,
  a large mixed bowl of FRESH fruit, napkins,
  plates and a number of blindfold. The
  participants are to divide groups of
  blindfolds. One member of each group should put
  on a blindfold. The blindfolded person will then
  be given a piece of fruit to eat and identify.
  While the person is eating the fruit, someone
  else in the group should place a second piece of
  fruit of similar texture under the under the nose
  of the blindfolded person. Through this exercise,
  participants will show that mixed messages lead
  to confusion. If for example the blindfolded
  person is eating an orange and a lemon is placed
  under his nose, most people will taste lemons.
• Bowl of FRESH fruit should contain slices of
  Oranges/lemons/grapefruit/limes (citrus works
  best) or apples/pears/etc
• (The combinations should have similar textures.
  Pieces should be cut to similar sizes.)
• You can expect the different members of the group
  to fail at different points in during the
  exercise.
• After you have run through the fruit - and each
  person has failed - discuss why they failed and
  how they were tricked into failing
• Again each of these mixed signals interfers
  with picking up the desired message.