Active Trust-Building Game For Movement & Support - Walk & Lean
Active Trust-Building Game For Movement & Support - Walk & Lean is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Instruct one person to commit to ‘spotting’ their partner’s movements at all times.
- Instruct the ‘spotter’ to remain ready and behind their partner, no matter where they move.
- Without notice, invite the walker to stop walking and then lean backwards on several occasions.
- Instruct the walker to only lean backwards from a stationary/stopped position.
- Alert the walking/leaning partner to be prepared to support oneself at all times.
- Ask partners to swap roles every 30 seconds.
- Walk & Lean Active trust-building game combining movement with partner support.
- Walk & Lean is an active trust-building game that teaches people to trust gradually whilst staying alert and responsive to their partner’s needs.
- Participants will develop growing confidence in both giving and receiving support, not to mention emotional development.
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Instruct the ‘spotter’ to remain ready and behind their partner, no matter where they move.
Without notice, invite the walker to stop walking and then lean backwards on several occasions.
Ask partners to swap roles every 30 seconds.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Active Trust-Building Game For Movement & Support - Walk & Lean. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Instruct the ‘spotter’ to remain ready and behind their partner, no matter where they move.; Without notice, invite the walker to stop walking and then lean backwards on several occasions.; Ask partners to swap roles every 30 seconds.; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Playmeo; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Playmeo.)
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- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.