Benefits
- Simple to understand
- Terrific get-to-know-you exercise
- Builds relationships
- Circle game
Equipment
- Nil
INSTRUCTIONS
- Gather your group in a large open space.
- Ultimate objective is to create one large circle in which every person is physically linked with two others.
- Ask one volunteer to stand with one hand on their hip, and then share one or more statements about themselves to the group.
- When someone from the rest of the group hears a statement that they have in common with the first volunteer, they are invited to link elbows with them.
- This second person then shares something about themselves to the larger group, to attract a new person to link elbows with them, and so on.
- This process of sharing and linking continues on one by one.
- To complete the circle, invite the last person to join the long chain of connections to share something about themselves to link with the very first volunteer.
- Next, try a variation (see below.)
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