United We TransformCreate teamsGrade your agenda
Exercises/Reflection and Learning/Challenging Trust Activity For Advanced Groups - Trust Fall
Team Reflection · Reflection and Learning

Challenging Trust Activity For Advanced Groups - Trust Fall

Challenging Trust Activity For Advanced Groups - Trust Fall is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

15 to 30 minutesTIME
Small group (4-8)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In person, RemoteSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. In advance, assess your group’s physical abilities and spotting skills as required for this exercise.
  2. For safety, this exercise requires at least nine people to participate, ie one faller and eight spotters.
  3. Objective : Challenge your group to work together to catch one of their team members as they fall backwards from a platform.
  4. Instruct your group in the proper and most effective manner to fall and catch a participant, ie go to Participant Responsibilities tab for details.
  5. Follow prescribed communication protocols before every attempt.
  6. After catching each fall, carefully lower the faller’s feet to the ground to help them return to a standing position.
  7. Honour choice and invite all those who wish to fall to make an attempt.
  8. Trust Fall Challenging trust activity requiring advanced safety & support.
  9. Trust Fall is a challenging trust activity that demands extensive preparation as participants confront vulnerability, whilst teammates assume complete responsibility for physical safety.
Live facilitator

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.

Prompts to use +

Instruct your group in the proper and most effective manner to fall and catch a participant, ie go to Participant Responsibilities tab for details.

Honour choice and invite all those who wish to fall to make an attempt.

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 Trust Activity For Advanced Groups - Trust Fall. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Instruct your group in the proper and most effective manner to fall and catch a participant, ie go to Participant Responsibilities tab for details.; Honour choice and invite all those who wish to fall to make an attempt.; . 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.

Pairs well with