Exercise 3. Make 'em laugh!
In your day to day life, up your game a notch almost into performance mode and create a few smiles among your fellow citizens. This is the stuff of well-timed social inter-action in bus queues, waiting rooms and at the bars of crowded pubs; your contribution can be as simple as an expression of a shared response, be it exasperation, boredom or delight. More mug and mimic, less sustained conversation.
We are in no way suggesting that you walk up to complete strangers and start telling them jokes, far from it. If they suspect any agenda other than every day communication then you’ve failed.
What is required for the workshop is a short 4-5 minute routine about your efforts - both successes and failures – share with us the who, where, what, and internal dialogue of the experience.