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