Exciting Trust-Building Challenge Boosts Confidence: Slice & Dice
Exciting Trust-Building Challenge Boosts Confidence: Slice & Dice is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Form two straight lines of people, facing each other and standing about 1.5 to 2 metres apart.
- Instruct these people to swing their arms full stretch in front of them, up and down in a chopping motion.
- Ask a volunteer to stand at least 2 metres from one of the ends of the two lines, looking straight down the middle.
- Upon issuing a series of agreed ‘Are-you-ready?’ commands, ask the volunteer to walk down the corridor between the two lines.
- The two lines of people aim to slice the air with their swinging arms and hands directly in front of the walker as he or she passes by.
- The walker aims to maintain an even pace down the corridor until they exit the two lines, keeping their eyes open at all times.
- Slice & Dice Exciting trust-building challenge with courage & risk.
- Slice & Dice is an exciting trust-building challenge that creates memorable adrenaline-fuelled moments that strengthen bonds.
- When facilitated carefully, this team-building experience builds deeper trust while teaching groups about responsibility and care for individual safety.
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Form two straight lines of people, facing each other and standing about 1.5 to 2 metres apart.
Ask a volunteer to stand at least 2 metres from one of the ends of the two lines, looking straight down the middle.
Upon issuing a series of agreed ‘Are-you-ready?’ commands, ask the volunteer to walk down the corridor between the two lines.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Exciting Trust-Building Challenge Boosts Confidence: Slice & Dice. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Form two straight lines of people, facing each other and standing about 1.5 to 2 metres apart.; Ask a volunteer to stand at least 2 metres from one of the ends of the two lines, looking straight down the middle.; Upon issuing a series of agreed ‘Are-you-ready?’ commands, ask the volunteer to walk down the corridor between the two lines.; . 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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