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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 483952" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>When I was a kid and being trained in public speaking, kids with stage fright were taught to focus their eyes on the wall above the heads at the back of the room. If possible we had to move our eyes around the room but if we could not make eye contact for fear of entirely losing it, our teacher said to keep looking at the back wall in different places, the side walls,the windows and then back to the centre of the back wall. For the audience, they feel all this as eye contact even if you're not actually meeting anyone's eye.</p><p></p><p>There are ways to make eye contact without making eye contact, if you see what I mean. On an individual basis, keeping the glances at someone's face short but frequent, is a way of increasing eye contact but in manageable amounts. It also can begin to desensitise someone who otherwise has difficulty.</p><p></p><p>I'm not good at eye contact. I have to work at it. I tend to flick my glance around a room (if I'm up front speaking to a group) and I still spend a lot of time looking past the back row to the wall...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 483952, member: 1991"] When I was a kid and being trained in public speaking, kids with stage fright were taught to focus their eyes on the wall above the heads at the back of the room. If possible we had to move our eyes around the room but if we could not make eye contact for fear of entirely losing it, our teacher said to keep looking at the back wall in different places, the side walls,the windows and then back to the centre of the back wall. For the audience, they feel all this as eye contact even if you're not actually meeting anyone's eye. There are ways to make eye contact without making eye contact, if you see what I mean. On an individual basis, keeping the glances at someone's face short but frequent, is a way of increasing eye contact but in manageable amounts. It also can begin to desensitise someone who otherwise has difficulty. I'm not good at eye contact. I have to work at it. I tend to flick my glance around a room (if I'm up front speaking to a group) and I still spend a lot of time looking past the back row to the wall... Marg [/QUOTE]
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