Free Team Building Game

Time:            

• Approximately 15 minutes   (more, based on number of participants and options utilized)

Participants:

• Ideal maximum = 20

Materials: 

• Large ball of yarn or string.

Purpose: 

• Summarization and closure.

Preparation and Notes for Facilitator:

• All stand and form circle.  Facilitator provides a one sentence review of the program’s objectives.

• Facilitator starts by stating what s/he experienced as a result of facilitating program. 

• Holding onto the end of yarn, Facilitator tosses the ball to a participant on the other side of the circle. 

• Have each person take a turn at receiving skein, sharing reflections, and tossing the yarn while continuing to hold on to a piece.

• Continue until every participant is holding a part of the web.

• Facilitator asks for observations about the resulting visual that connects all participants. 

• Facilitator summarizes all participant comments, pointing out that web of yarn connects every member of the group. 

 Optional:

• Facilitator points out that the program began as a collection of individuals willing to learn from and with each other. 

• Facilitator cuts the yarn with scissors so that each person leaves, as they came, as an individual, but taking with them a piece of one another.

 Optional for multi-day or continuing sessions:

• Ask participants to bring their individual pieces of yarn to next session

• Ask for, or develop your own, creative ideas for using the pieces of yarn.

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