Full Circle Associates

I've been using chat in virtual teams, distributed CoPs and in online learning groups. It can be a tough environment for some people. Sometimes it can make you downright CRAZY and frantic.

A year or so ago some folks in my "Facilitating Online Interactions" workshop did an experiment. We had a chat window open in one window, and loaded the following page (Healers Way) which has healing harp music (of one of the members of the group, Stella Benson) in another window. In effect we were all listening to the same music at the same time as we were chatting. We then took a moment to relax at the start and midway through the chat, with this lovely harp music soothing us.

IT WAS AMAZING. It changed the experience of the chat. Thinking about bridging communications modalities as a way of improving/deepening and enriching online communications is on my mind these days. Not only do we bridge across technical platforms, but we bridge senses and modalities.

By the way, Stella teaches about how to play and use healing music for F2F health situations in an ONLINE workshop -- check it out at The Healing Musician. Talk about bridging!