Creative Team Activity for Group Connection - Funny Walk
Creative Team Activity for Group Connection - Funny Walk is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Assemble your group at one end of a wide open space, possibly behind a line.
- Every person is invited to walk from one side of the space to the other in the most inventive, zany manner they can think of.
- When the group arrives at the other end, form pairs and repeat the crossing, without repeating any walking styles that have already been used.
- All crossings must involve some form of physical contact between partners.
- Next crossing, two pairs form into groups of four.
- Then, two groups of four form into groups of eight people, and so on.
- People cross back and forth until the final crossing involves the whole group.
- Funny Walk Creative team activity to build connection & physical expression.
- Funny Walk is a creative team activity and collaborative adventure that builds trust and cooperation.
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When the group arrives at the other end, form pairs and repeat the crossing, without repeating any walking styles that have already been used.
All crossings must involve some form of physical contact between partners.
Next crossing, two pairs form into groups of four.
Then, two groups of four form into groups of eight people, and so on.
People cross back and forth until the final crossing involves the whole group.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Creative Team Activity for Group Connection - Funny Walk. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: When the group arrives at the other end, form pairs and repeat the crossing, without repeating any walking styles that have already been used.; All crossings must involve some form of physical contact between partners.; Next crossing, two pairs form into groups of four.; Then, two groups of four form into groups of eight people, and so on.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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