All Change
All Change is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Place participants into pairs and ask them to face each other. Then ask them to take a good look at the person in front of them and memorise what that person is wearing.
- Next, ask them to face away from their partner and change five things about themselves (typically people will take off a shoe, remove a watch or ring or perhaps remove their glasses).
- After they have done this, ask the pairs to turn and face each other again and identify what has changed about their partner.
- Review - in review, ask participants how easy it was to change things about themselves. Usually they will say that it is hard to change five things.
- The important thing to note is that most people associate ‘change’ as removal or loss of things. How many people actually added something to themselves to change their appearance?
- In life, we tend to associate change with loss. However, the reality is that change can also include gain.
- A side thing to note is how quickly once people realise the exercise is over they return their clothing or appearance back to the way it was. Given the chance, people will always revert back to ‘the way things were’. This is also typical of change situations.
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Place participants into pairs and ask them to face each other. Then ask them to take a good look at the person in front of them and memorise what that person is wearing.
Next, ask them to face away from their partner and change five things about themselves (typically people will take off a shoe, remove a watch or ring or perhaps remove their glasses).
After they have done this, ask the pairs to turn and face each other again and identify what has changed about their partner.
Review - in review, ask participants how easy it was to change things about themselves. Usually they will say that it is hard to change five things.
The important thing to note is that most people associate ‘change’ as removal or loss of things. How many people actually added something to themselves to change their appearance?
A side thing to note is how quickly once people realise the exercise is over they return their clothing or appearance back to the way it was. Given the chance, people will always revert back to ‘the way things were’. This is also typical of change situations.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: All Change. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Place participants into pairs and ask them to face each other. Then ask them to take a good look at the person in front of them and memorise what that person is wearing.; Next, ask them to face away from their partner and change five things about themselves (typically people will take off a shoe, remove a watch or ring or perhaps remove their glasses).; After they have done this, ask the pairs to turn and face each other again and identify what has changed about their partner.; Review - in review, ask participants how easy it was to change things about themselves. Usually they will say that it is hard to change five things.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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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.
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