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Ice-breaker, Group Building Activity
To break the ice, to reduce the distance between participants, to start the day in a funny way, to make people cooperate and take responsibility for each other.
* All stand on the beam, without touching the floor. Then the groups have to go and stand in alphabetical order (on first name), or in order of birthday (age is generally not appreciated!), in order of shoe size etc.
Pitfalls : it goes without saying that the beam should not be too high to avoid your participants piling up underneath it. Think of people with reduced mobility (a wheelchair-user might have one wheel on the beam for example).
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http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/79
This tool is for
7-15 people per beam
and addresses
Group Dynamics, Project Management
Materials needed:
A wooden beam just long enough to hold the number of people (or you can draw one on the floor or cut one out of paper or cardboard).
Duration:
15-20 minutes
The tool was created by
Unknown.
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The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Unknown (on 10 July 2003)
and last modified
21 June 2010
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