Facilitator and partner briefing · noindex
Your space as facilitator, and the tools for each stationary pair.
Thursday 23 July 2026, 18:00Base camp is the sun shelter in the park's north-west corner, on Whiston Road beside the north-west gate. It has benches and a roof, and it is also the first fallback if it rains.
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Read this before anyone changes how they look
This optional, stationary exercise changes how a sighted participant looks for a few minutes. It is about attention and communication. It does not simulate blindness or replicate the experiences of blind or low-vision people, whose lives involve long-term adaptation, skills and tools far beyond this workshop. Please do not generalise from this exercise to assumptions about disabled people's lives.
Taking part is always your choice, and it stays your choice. You can keep your eyes open, look, stop, sit or leave at any moment, in either role, and you never have to say why. The word stop always means stop.
The witness's promise
Calls
- Stay at the agreed stationary spot for the whole attention period
- Ask: eyes open, softened or closed?
- At five minutes, offer a quiet comfort check
- Say eyes open before either person moves
Tap codes
- One tap · Stop now
- Two taps · All good, keep going
- Three taps · I want to open my eyes or end this part
Consent, asked separately
- Taking part at all, and whether your eyes stay open, soften or close while stationary
- Whether any touch is welcome, asked separately
- Being photographed, before any camera is used
- The word stop always means stop, in either role
- You are a witness, not a guide. Both people stay seated or standing at one agreed spot.
- Keep the immediate space clear and say eyes open before either person moves.
- Never position or push another person's body.
- This is about attention, not a simulation of blindness, and it is never framed as empathy for blind people.
- The pond and its wooden pier (open water)
- The BMX dirt track and pump track (fast riders, fall risk)
- The asphalt MUGA courts (stray balls) and every gate threshold
- No canal edge and no road crossing during any timed leg
Facilitator checks · complete on the recce
Complete these on the recce the day before. Any that stay open travel into this briefing rather than being replaced with confidence.
- Stay inside the agreed park zone. Do not use the canal edge or road crossings during timed drifts.
- Return to base camp at the agreed time. The walk can end early without becoming incomplete.
- Complete and record the route recce
- Confirm the meeting gate and weather fallback
- Confirm permission and activity-specific insurance position
- Print the contact sheet and incident log