Realistic Blindness Simulation Exercises for Effective Corporate Team Building

A fictional monologue

Hear me read this post on the Deep Sy Podcast.

Alright, alright, circle up, American Sky Life Insurance and Casualty Corporation employee team building retreaters! Welcome back, everyone! How was walking around with those blindfolds on? Were our blind volunteers good guides? Well, they’ve had a little experience, ha-ha. We kid around here. Disability is not something to be afraid of. You can have fun with it.

Now we’re gonna move on to part two of the exercise. That’s right! It’s not over yet. This is always my favorite part of the morning! We here at Blackout Corporate Events LLC are all blind professional trainers providing participants with realistic and powerful blindness experiences to promote empathy, team building, and thriving, diverse workplaces. Yes, yes, you got me. I did memorize a few things from the website, ha-ha.

Well, it’s that realistic part I want to focus in on now. See, blindness isn’t something you can just put on and take off like a blindfold—you can go ahead and take those off by the way. When someone becomes blind, they’re usually in it for the long haul. So wearing a blindfold for half an hour isn’t a very realistic experience.

What’s that, Mark? Oh no, the lights in this room are on actually. Well, that’s the surprise. You’re all blind now! That’s right. There were some chemicals in those blindfolds.