Touch, Taste & Smell
Three underrated
senses, which can each enhance experience, create and reinforce associations
and trigger memory. InnerSense gives serious consideration to each of these
senses when creating a workshop/environment in the following ways:
Touch - All clients,
particularly those with sight and/or hearing impairment can enjoy music and
sound through feeling vibrations and rhythms, either through different
instruments, such as drums, through speakers or even through empty boxes
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Use props
related to the workshop theme that have distinct tactile qualities, for
example, fluffy kapok for snow, a real pool of water, a furry puppet, water
gels, stones, sand...
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Human touch,
so important and yet so difficult for many participants....encourage touching
hands, feet, faces with the use of facepaints, creams, essential oils (beware
allergies).
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Use soft brushes, feathers as mediums between you. Encourage clients to initiate contact, perhaps 'touching' you first.
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Taste - Since the
dawn of time, food and drink have featured in celebrations (see
Feasting), whether a simple picnic, eggs on an open fire, chestnuts roasted for a medieval
supper, or a vegetable stew. Use these occasions to experience a variety of tastes as well as having some fun
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Include
tastes that are related to the workshop. This will give opportunities to
experience a variety of food and drink from different cultures, like curly pasta and herbs in Venice, bananas in the jungle,
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Taste cheese in France, orange juice in Spain, jasmine tea in Japan, fresh bread in a bakery. Even those who can't swallow can smell and enjoy.
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Smell - Smells can
provide clues to a workshop setting - natural foliage, fruit, coffee beans, a
sage smudge stick for a bonfire, smoke, burning. Use incense sticks/cones for
sandalwood, pine, cedar, smells of the forest.
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Soaps,
talcum, lotions and oils (like lavender) work well with 'bathroom', beach or
relaxation workshops.
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Add accessories like soft fluffy towels, flannels, nailbrushes for a variety of textures and other scents
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Include
herbs and spices where the workshop theme allows.
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