The LISTEN TO YOUR SENSES tool was designed to provide an immersive, deeply personal, accessible, and multisensory experience. It proves particularly valuable in educational, rehabilitative, and design contexts where activating perceptual channels is essential, especially for learners who struggle to express themselves solely through verbal language. Its strength lies in its ability to connect the body, the senses, and the imagination, generating deep engagement that nurtures both self-awareness and relational space design.
Accesible and customizable
The experiential format of this tool can adapt to varying cognitive, linguistic, and relational levels. Using the senses as a gateway to inner content allows every learner to engage according to their abilities: there is no requirement to “write well,” “speak a lot,” or “draw beautifully” – the goal is simply to perceive, listen, and respond.
Clear, playful, and empathetic structure
The working setup – with mysterious envelopes, blindfolds, and materials to explore through touch, taste, hearing, or smell – creates a playful yet never childish experience. Engagement is stimulated through surprise, curiosity, and imagination, reducing the distance between learner and activity.
This non-judgmental approach encourages relaxation, reduces performance anxiety, and fosters inner listening, making the experience deeply personal and engaging.
Easy to reproduce, integrate, and evolve
The materials required are simple and readily available (a box, fabrics, candies, QR codes, scents, A3 sheets, etc.) and can be customized by facilitators according to the context. Each module can be expanded or adapted with new content or materials. Alternative versions can be created for children, adults, mixed groups, or individuals with specific needs.
This makes the tool operationally sustainable and easily replicable across multiple environments or stages of a program.
Activates empathy and connection with space
The sensory experience offered by the tool is a powerful trigger for implicit memory, emotions, and internal imagery. When eyes are closed and learners touch, listen, or smell, a direct channel opens between body and imagination.
Learners attune to themselves and their reactions, uncovering associations that often go unnoticed in daily life.
This process deepens their relationship with the sense of dwelling, which can then be translated into spaces designed to welcome and support people. Starting from subjective and bodily experience, learners strengthen their capacity for empathy toward others: the space is no longer designed for people, but with people, in a more sensitive and responsible way.
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