Objectives
To get participants to offer their opinions, encourage listening and to promote discussion in the group.
Method
Divide the group into pairs.
Ask the pairs to describe to each other what gift they would give each other.
Once they have completed this bring the group back to together. Then each member must describe in detail their exercise partner’s gift from you, why they chose it? and what it says about their partner?
This exercise also encourages questioning and listening skills within the group.
Discussion Questions
1. Did anyone feel uncomfortable doing this exercise? Is so, why?
2. How can we use this exercise for the rest of the training event?
Appropriate Time Required
Flexible, dependent on group size. Maximum time 15 minutes.
Objectives
To allow people know each others names and some information about each other.
Method
There are many variations to this icebreaker.
A few will be outlined here to indicate how they work.
The Animal
Each person picks the name of an animal name that starts with the first letter of their own name. To illustrate, ‘I am Aardvark Alan’.
Then the next person continues by stating ‘that was Aardvark Alan and I am Bettle Bob’. And so on …
The Name
Ask each person to state their name and to give a little more information about their name. Why are they called that name? Is there any history associated with the name? Do they have a nickname? What other name do they like? And so on …
Appropriate Time Required
Flexible, dependent on group size. Maximum time 10 minutes.
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