Challenging Group Initiative For Teams - Turn Over A New Leaf
Challenging Group Initiative For Teams - Turn Over A New Leaf 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 a large tarp (approx 1.2m x 1.8m) on the floor.
- Ask your group to stand directly on it.
- If anyone touches the area outside of the tarp, ie the ground/floor, this will require the group to start over.
- Allow ample time for trial and error and encourage as necessary.
- Turn Over A New Leaf Challenging group initiative requiring creative spatial thinking.
- Turn Over A New Leaf is a challenging group initiative that reveals leadership styles and decision-making processes as groups work together to solve the problem.
- The deceptively simple setup creates authentic moments where breakthrough thinking emerges through experimentation.
Run this exercise live
The facilitator console stays in this browser. Its QR handoff is a short-lived participant snapshot containing only public exercise instructions, phase, prompt, and timer state.
What participants need now
Materials:
This is a participant-safe snapshot, not a response form. It sends nothing back to the facilitator.
Prompts to use +
Place a large tarp (approx 1.2m x 1.8m) on the floor.
Ask your group to stand directly on it.
If anyone touches the area outside of the tarp, ie the ground/floor, this will require the group to start over.
Turn Over A New Leaf Challenging group initiative requiring creative spatial thinking.
Turn Over A New Leaf is a challenging group initiative that reveals leadership styles and decision-making processes as groups work together to solve the problem.
Run this with your AI assistant +
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Challenging Group Initiative For Teams - Turn Over A New Leaf. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Place a large tarp (approx 1.2m x 1.8m) on the floor.; Ask your group to stand directly on it.; If anyone touches the area outside of the tarp, ie the ground/floor, this will require the group to start over.; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- 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.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- 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.