Active Circle Challenge for Team Connection - Circle The Circle
Active Circle Challenge for Team Connection - Circle The Circle is a circle dialogue exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Form a circle, with everyone holding their partner’s hands, facing in.
- Invite two people standing close to you to temporarily break their hold and then re-clasp as they place their arms inside a hula-hoop.
- Instruct your group to pass the hula-hoop around the circle (in any direction) without using their hands or fingers to assist the passing.
- Gradually introduce more hula-hoops, of varying sizes and in both directions, to increase the challenge.
- Continue for several minutes, or try a variation.
- Circle The Circle Active circle challenge that unites teams in movement.
- Circle the Circle fills the air with laughter as this active circle challenge creates brilliant moments of creative movement and connection.
- As a simple group energiser, it will invite bodies to twist and turn while teams discover new ways to support each other.
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Form a circle, with everyone holding their partner’s hands, facing in.
Invite two people standing close to you to temporarily break their hold and then re-clasp as they place their arms inside a hula-hoop.
Instruct your group to pass the hula-hoop around the circle (in any direction) without using their hands or fingers to assist the passing.
Continue for several minutes, or try a variation.
As a simple group energiser, it will invite bodies to twist and turn while teams discover new ways to support each other.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Active Circle Challenge for Team Connection - Circle The Circle. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Form a circle, with everyone holding their partner’s hands, facing in.; Invite two people standing close to you to temporarily break their hold and then re-clasp as they place their arms inside a hula-hoop.; Instruct your group to pass the hula-hoop around the circle (in any direction) without using their hands or fingers to assist the passing.; Continue for several minutes, or try a variation.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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