1. On a big sheet of paper draw 5 concentric circles starting with the smallest in the middle of the paper and finishing with the largest one nearest the edge of the paper.
2. Put the ‘subject’ of your study inside the smallest circle then, working outwards, indicate how often communications occur e.g. rarely, monthly, weekly or most days, inside the remaining circles.
3. Next, insert the names of the people you communicate with, placing them in the relevant area (rarely, monthly, weekly or most days) to show how often you communicate with them. You could use various colours for different types of people (institution, groups) that you communicate with.
4. Beside each person’s name, indicate how you usually communicate with them. For example, this might be: in person, face-to-face (e.g. Skype/video call), over the telephone, by email, instant messaging, through social networks, by letter or via text message.
5. Finally, mark the most important relationship(s) you have and explain why.

Times indicated in the circles could differ and can be different periods during the day (e.g. lunch time) or be for longer periods of time, as suggested above.