Exciting Group Trust Activity for Building Confidence: Levitation
Exciting Group Trust Activity for Building Confidence: Levitation is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Ask for a volunteer to stand in the middle of a group of at least eight people.
- The volunteer will place their feet together, cross their arms on their chest and keep their body stiff.
- Upon issuing a series of agreed ‘Are you ready?’ commands, the group leans the volunteer backwards, until their head and upper torso are supported.
- Lifting together, the group then slowly elevates the volunteer’s body off the ground to shoulder height.
- Once comfortable, the group then starts rocking the person’s body back and forth (from head to toe) several times.
- After about 15 to 20 seconds, the group lowers the person gently to the ground.
- Levitation Group trust activity to build confidence & team support.
- Levitation transforms individual vulnerability into a memorable demonstration of group care and teamwork.
- As a treasured group trust activity, the literal act of being lifted and supported creates both physical and emotional connections among participants, ready for deeper trust experiences.
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Prompts to use +
Ask for a volunteer to stand in the middle of a group of at least eight people.
The volunteer will place their feet together, cross their arms on their chest and keep their body stiff.
Lifting together, the group then slowly elevates the volunteer’s body off the ground to shoulder height.
Once comfortable, the group then starts rocking the person’s body back and forth (from head to toe) several times.
After about 15 to 20 seconds, the group lowers the person gently to the ground.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Exciting Group Trust Activity for Building Confidence: Levitation. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask for a volunteer to stand in the middle of a group of at least eight people.; The volunteer will place their feet together, cross their arms on their chest and keep their body stiff.; Lifting together, the group then slowly elevates the volunteer’s body off the ground to shoulder height.; Once comfortable, the group then starts rocking the person’s body back and forth (from head to toe) several times.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Playmeo; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Playmeo.)
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- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
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