Connected Paediatrics Weekly: How to spot your tribe

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Life is strange…One day you are taking your daughter through to see Uni’s and the next you are dancing at a silent disco party in Llanrhidian, Wales (I don’t know how to pronounce it either).

If you’ve never been to a silent disco…I highly recommend it, it’s incredibly entertaining. The idea being that everyone who wants to party pops on a set of headphones and those who don’t can carry on chatting and chilling out without music blasting at them. The trick is that each headset has 3 settings like rock, dance and RnB (or whatever) and each of those settings has a colour attached to it (red, green and blue).

On the surface it’s just a bunch of people dancing around in a very quiet pub and mouthing the words to their friends with big flashing lights on their heads (or actually singing along…which is hilarious). But underneath it’s like the coolest social experiment.

For instance, you can be standing on the other side of the bar from another person who is listening on red whilst everyone in between is glowing green and you share a nod of recognition. “You are my tribe.”

Or you are dancing and you see people tapping each other’s shoulders as all the blue and red headphones start changing to green…someone’s found a great song and the message is moving through the dance community.

Or when you’re all dancing in a group of half reds and half greens and you realize that just because we’re dancing to different songs doesn’t mean we can’t all have a great time together…

It left me feeling that although we may not have big flashing lights on our heads to show who we are and who our tribe is, there are still signs we give and receive and the more we give those signals the more our tribe will see them and our clinics become full of the kids we should be seeing.

Think that your website, the reception area, your décor, your words and your body language are basically big flashing lights on either side of your head.

What do you want them to say?

Chat soon

Mike

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