Benefits

  • Simple to understand
  • Terrific get-to-know-you exercise
  • Builds relationships
  • Circle game

Equipment

  • Nil

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Gather your group in a large open space.
  2. Ultimate objective is to create one large circle in which every person is physically linked with two others.
  3. Ask one volunteer to stand with one hand on their hip, and then share one or more statements about themselves to the group.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. This process of sharing and linking continues on one by one.
  7. 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.
  8. Next, try a variation (see below.)

 

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