Blindfold Team-Building Game Develops Group Trust - Blind Maze
Blindfold Team-Building Game Develops Group Trust - Blind Maze is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- In advance, tie a series of short ropes between multiple trees to represent a path out of a wooded area.
- Create one entry and one exit for the path, allowing for one or more gaps (between trees) in the path as well as dead-ends where possible.
- Download a sample diagram for guidance from the Resources tab.
- Out of sight of the maze, ask your group to put on their blindfolds.
- Standing in a straight line with hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them, lead your group carefully to the start of the maze.
- Place the hands of the person at the front of the line on the tree and/or rope connected to the maze entry.
- Challenge your group to work together and embark on a journey to find their way out of the maze.
- Announce that all members of the group must be connected to the rest of the group at all times.
- Blind Maze Blindfold team-building game to develop trust & communication.
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Prompts to use +
Create one entry and one exit for the path, allowing for one or more gaps (between trees) in the path as well as dead-ends where possible.
Out of sight of the maze, ask your group to put on their blindfolds.
Standing in a straight line with hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them, lead your group carefully to the start of the maze.
Place the hands of the person at the front of the line on the tree and/or rope connected to the maze entry.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Blindfold Team-Building Game Develops Group Trust - Blind Maze. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Create one entry and one exit for the path, allowing for one or more gaps (between trees) in the path as well as dead-ends where possible.; Out of sight of the maze, ask your group to put on their blindfolds.; Standing in a straight line with hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them, lead your group carefully to the start of the maze.; Place the hands of the person at the front of the line on the tree and/or rope connected to the maze entry.. 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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