Consensus-Building Activity for Team-Building: Spaghetti Junction
Consensus-Building Activity for Team-Building: Spaghetti Junction is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Challenge your group to examine this bunch of ropes closely, from all sorts of angles, to determine which one rope is threaded through all others.
- Ultimately, invite your group to make their decision by consensus.
- Importantly, people are entitled to point, describe and look closer, but they are never permitted to touch or hold any of the ropes.
- Allow ample time for your group to discuss and solve the problem.
- When ready, ask your group to nominate which one (coloured) rope they believe is the one threaded through all other rope rings.
- Pick up the nominated rope ring and shake out the tangles.
- Spaghetti Junction Consensus-building activity to explore group decision-making skills.
- Spaghetti Junction is a consensus-building activity that teaches valuable communication and listening skills.
- Your group will learn to value different perspectives and reach decisions through careful observation and discussion.
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Ultimately, invite your group to make their decision by consensus.
Importantly, people are entitled to point, describe and look closer, but they are never permitted to touch or hold any of the ropes.
Allow ample time for your group to discuss and solve the problem.
When ready, ask your group to nominate which one (coloured) rope they believe is the one threaded through all other rope rings.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Consensus-Building Activity for Team-Building: Spaghetti Junction. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ultimately, invite your group to make their decision by consensus.; Importantly, people are entitled to point, describe and look closer, but they are never permitted to touch or hold any of the ropes.; Allow ample time for your group to discuss and solve the problem.; When ready, ask your group to nominate which one (coloured) rope they believe is the one threaded through all other rope rings.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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