Circle Game Activity for Quick Group Focus - Chicken-Eyes
Circle Game Activity for Quick Group Focus - Chicken-Eyes is a circle dialogue exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Form a circle, standing close to one another.
- By way of demonstration, ask your group to form a set of ‘chicken-eyes’ using both hands, eg make two circles with each index finger and thumb, fanning all other fingers, and then place the circles over your eyes.
- To start, pull one hand up to form one chicken-eye and place it over your corresponding eye, ie right hand forms circle over right eye.
- Practice passing the impulse around the circle, in both directions, for a few moments.
- When ready, explain that the impulse may now be passed, at any time, in one of three ways to elicit a particular response, for example:
- - Same direction: place chicken-eye over same eye as your neighbour;
- - Reverse direction: place chicken-eye over different eye to your neighbour, eg if impulse was running to the right, use left hand over left eye to reverse direction; and
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Form a circle, standing close to one another.
By way of demonstration, ask your group to form a set of ‘chicken-eyes’ using both hands, eg make two circles with each index finger and thumb, fanning all other fingers, and then place the circles over your eyes.
To start, pull one hand up to form one chicken-eye and place it over your corresponding eye, ie right hand forms circle over right eye.
When ready, explain that the impulse may now be passed, at any time, in one of three ways to elicit a particular response, for example:
- Same direction: place chicken-eye over same eye as your neighbour;
- Reverse direction: place chicken-eye over different eye to your neighbour, eg if impulse was running to the right, use left hand over left eye to reverse direction; and
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Circle Game Activity for Quick Group Focus - Chicken-Eyes. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Form a circle, standing close to one another.; By way of demonstration, ask your group to form a set of ‘chicken-eyes’ using both hands, eg make two circles with each index finger and thumb, fanning all other fingers, and then place the circles over your eyes.; To start, pull one hand up to form one chicken-eye and place it over your corresponding eye, ie right hand forms circle over right eye.; When ready, explain that the impulse may now be passed, at any time, in one of three ways to elicit a particular response, for example:. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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