Creative Team-Building Game for Group Engagement - Human Machines
Creative Team-Building Game for Group Engagement - Human Machines is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Each group will have four minutes to create a machine, which you will announce shortly, using only their bodies.
- Each machine must have moving parts and will be demonstrated as a working model to the rest of the group.
- Instruct each group to actively and productively involve every member of their team in the working model of the machine.
- Announce the first machine, eg dishwasher.
- When ready, invite each small group to demonstrate their machine.
- Play several rounds, announcing a new more complex machine with each round.
- Human Machines Creative team-building game to boost cooperation & thinking.
- As a creative team-building game, Human Machines encourages creativity as small teams coordinate, plan and demonstrate their mechanical creations.
- The playful nature of this exercise develops teamwork while ensuring everyone actively participates in a memorable experience.
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Each group will have four minutes to create a machine, which you will announce shortly, using only their bodies.
Each machine must have moving parts and will be demonstrated as a working model to the rest of the group.
Instruct each group to actively and productively involve every member of their team in the working model of the machine.
When ready, invite each small group to demonstrate their machine.
Play several rounds, announcing a new more complex machine with each round.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Creative Team-Building Game for Group Engagement - Human Machines. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Each group will have four minutes to create a machine, which you will announce shortly, using only their bodies.; Each machine must have moving parts and will be demonstrated as a working model to the rest of the group.; Instruct each group to actively and productively involve every member of their team in the working model of the machine.; When ready, invite each small group to demonstrate their machine.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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