Episode 50: Mid-Pandemic Interaction Report

We're coming up on a full year of living in pandemic life, which is long enough for many of us to not only develop new habits and etiquette in the ways that we interact with each other (hello, Zoom!), but also to forget many of the more nuanced, happenstance, or serendipitous interactions that we used to have prior to March 2020. All of those interactions that we once considered normal - maybe even inconsequential - with folks in the hallways or at our favorite local coffee spot, happened because we just bumped into each other as we went about our lives out in the world...and most of those are… now out the window! For many of us, the number of folks that we interacted with on the daily has become significantly fewer than the number we interacted with previously. Does this mean that we should go back and try to reach out to every single person that we used to see daily, weekly, or monthly? Well, no, but that noticing this shift provides space to consider the nature of our relationships as we have them now.

In this episode, we chew on this, as well as some of the ways in which we bring ourselves to the interactions we have now. Now, more than ever, we may be reliant on the power, and the limitations, of language and words as a primary mechanism of communication. Body language, eye contact, room or group dynamics, small-talk, ad hoc water cooler gatherings... for many, these are totally out the window! So how has your "nature of interaction" changed in the last year? Has it? 

Thank you for listening!

P + C

Related Episodes

Want to observe how our thinking on interactions in the pandemic has evolved? Listen back to our episode on the Principles of Community - Pandemic Edition - which was our 6th (!) episode!

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