Training games represent an important part of a trainer’s toolkit that allows the trainer to foster communication, enhance interaction, creativity and learning, and energize group formation.
Verbal Games are best used when you feel that the group will need to share more in the session and should take no more than 10 – 15 minutes depending on the size of the group.
Life Stories
Objectives
To increase sharing skills within the group.
Method
Participants each draw and complete a ‘tree of life’ on a sheet of paper.
The roots are used to represent their family, the trunk their supports, the leaves their success and the top their future aspirations.
The trees are then discussed with the group.
From Me – From You
Objectives
To increase sharing skills within the group.
Method
Participants are asked what they expect from members ofthe group (e.g., participation) and what they will share with the group (e.g., honesty).
All answers are placed on a flipchart and it can be used as a contract between participants.
That’s Really Me
Objectives
To increase sharing skills within the group.
Method
Participants are asked to write down on a piece of paper one thing that no-one else in the group knows about them.
All answers are placed together and are picked out by participants one at a time. They are read aloud and participants have to guess who they refer to.
