Classic Group Initiative for Team Coordination - Spider's Web
Classic Group Initiative for Team Coordination - Spider's Web is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Assess your group’s physical abilities and spotting skills as required for this exercise.
- Ask your group to stand on one side of the web.
- Objective : Challenge your group to pass every member of their team through the open sections of the web, one person per unique section, without anyone touching the web.
- For safety purposes, team members can position themselves as spotters on either side of the web at any time, but only those who belong on a particular side may physically assist those on their side.
- If any person touches the web, that person and one other (who has successfully passed through the web) will be required to return to the starting side of the web.
- No person is permitted to be passed over or under the web.
- Allow up to 30 minutes to complete the task (or other time as will challenge your group.)
- Spider’s Web Classic group initiative for advanced team coordination.
- The Spider’s Web demands both physical cooperation and mental agility, establishing itself as a challenging team-building activity that tests group dynamics under pressure while building deeper connections through shared accomplishment.
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Ask your group to stand on one side of the web.
Objective : Challenge your group to pass every member of their team through the open sections of the web, one person per unique section, without anyone touching the web.
Allow up to 30 minutes to complete the task (or other time as will challenge your group.)
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Classic Group Initiative for Team Coordination - Spider's Web. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask your group to stand on one side of the web.; Objective : Challenge your group to pass every member of their team through the open sections of the web, one person per unique section, without anyone touching the web.; Allow up to 30 minutes to complete the task (or other time as will challenge your group.); . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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