Method guide · Progress through phases
Mirroring
Use for non-contact paired movement with role changes, equal acceptance of passing and accessible participation alternatives.
- People
- 2–30
- Base procedure time
- 15 minutes
- Recording
- No record
Purpose: Build working relationships; Begin together.
English guide
Text acceptance is not approval of this rendered page, its media, or publication.
How this method works
Two people mirror movements without touching, swap roles and then match each other’s pace. Each pair checks the distance needed to avoid contact, the options to pass or stop, and the range of safe movements. The first person makes small, slow movements while the second mirrors left and right. Swap roles after 5 minutes. For the last 2 minutes, move together without a designated leader. Do not evaluate size, speed or accuracy of matching. Do not record performance or demonstrate it outside the pair. Do not count completed role changes or matching accuracy as outcomes; treat passing as equal participation. Do not use this where an equivalent way to participate other than visually tracking movements cannot be provided.
Phase schedule
Minutes are cumulative from the start of the base plan, not a live timer. Read scaling for any additional time. Phase controls do not advance automatically.
Use the arrow keys, Home or End while these controls have focus. The complete phase schedule remains below, including without JavaScript.
- Check non-contact movement, passing and safety0–3 minutes from the start (3 minutes)
Action: Check. Participation: Non-contact pairs.
No record
- Mirror the first person’s slow movements3–8 minutes from the start (5 minutes)
Action: Mirror. Participation: Non-contact pairs.
No record
- Swap leading and mirroring roles8–13 minutes from the start (5 minutes)
Action: Swap. Participation: Non-contact pairs.
No record
- Match each other’s pace without a designated leader13–15 minutes from the start (2 minutes)
Action: Match. Participation: Non-contact pairs.
No record
Facilitation steps
- For 3 minutes, form pairs and check non-contact distance, passing, stopping and the range of movements that can be followed without strain.
- For 5 minutes, the first person makes small, slow movements while the second keeps their distance and mirrors left and right.
- For 5 minutes, swap leading and mirroring roles and repeat within the same range of size and speed.
- For 2 minutes, without a designated leader, find a pace each can follow and come to a still position.
If something changes
If
Either person indicates pain, discomfort or a wish to stop even once.
Then
Stop the pair’s movement without asking why. Let the person choose small seated movements, observation or ending participation.
If
Before starting, at least one person finds it difficult to follow their partner’s movements visually.
Then
Do not treat this method as completed for that pair. Move to another way of participating, such as sound rhythms.
If
The person mirroring cannot keep up for 2 consecutive movements.
Then
The leader reduces both size and speed to half or less and restarts from a still position.
Preparation
Materials
- One shared facilitation card for non-contact movement, passing and stopping
Room and setup
- Enough distance for two people to see each other and move without contact.
Adjust for people and time
For 2–30 people, form pairs simultaneously. If the number is odd, the facilitator joins to make it even. If that is not possible, do not force one person to observe; let them choose observation, another way to participate or passing. Do not demonstrate or evaluate across pairs. Close all pairs together after 15 minutes.
Safety and non-applicable situations
Keep movement non-contact and within a safe, comfortable range. Stop for any indication of pain, discomfort or a wish to stop without asking for a reason. Provide equivalent alternatives to visual tracking. Treat passing as equal participation and do not force observation, evaluate performance or record movement outcomes.
Manuscript's recorded references
These translate the original manuscript's source and rights claims. They remain separate from any current-page notice below; they do not establish new verification.
- Seeds for Change Facilitation Tools: Mirroring
https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/tools
anti-copyright adaptation; changes made
- Conditions applying to anti-copyright
https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/resources
anti-copyright
Seeds for Change: source and reuse conditions
This page adapts the Seeds for Change facilitation guide linked in the manuscript's references. This site's wording, facilitation plan and illustrations are adaptations, not an official Seeds publication. The English text translates this site's Japanese adaptation.
Seeds for Change describes its guides as anti-copyright: copying, adapting, using and distributing them is allowed provided the final work remains anti-copyright. The Seeds-derived adaptation and translation contributions on this page are provided on that same basis. This is not a CC BY-SA licence or a licence for the whole website or third-party materials.
The source also asks translators to let Seeds know so it can link to their translations. No contact or notification has been made for this candidate; this notice does not imply one.
Seeds for Change — Facilitation Tools / Official reuse conditions
Diagram, print, and video language
Original Japanese guide, diagram, and print view. Their labels and print text have not been translated; an English print edition is not provided here.
English video-library navigation. Original Japanese audio, subtitles and transcripts remain labelled Japanese resources. Their translations are separate later work. No remote player is embedded here.
The manual English phase controls are a navigation aid, not a live facilitation timer. Interactive diagram motion remains pending.
Editorial provenance
Japanese source status and logs are provenance only. They do not mean this English text or interface was field-tested. Historical fixed-text acceptance and hold records remain specific to their recorded versions; displaying them neither asserts current acceptance nor resolves source-specific restrictions.