You have been in a conversation where you could feel the other person stop hearing you. Not because they left the room or started looking at their phone. They were still there, still nodding, but the connection had closed. You were talking past each other.
The Dummy Circle is a short interactive that shows you why this happens, and what it takes to break through.
It starts with a simple visual: two people in a circle of understanding. As the interaction plays out, you watch the circle shrink. The triggers are familiar. Assumptions harden. Listening becomes waiting for your turn. The other person becomes a simplified version of themselves in your mind, a dummy, and you start responding to that version instead of the real one.
This is what the 5 Spheres method calls the wall. Not hostility. Not disagreement. Just the quiet moment where your model of the other person stops updating and you start running on autopilot.
The interactive walks you through what builds the wall and what breaks it down again. It is short, and it is worth doing before any difficult conversation where you suspect the other person has already made up their mind about you, or you about them.