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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.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25), PairsGROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In personSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Form two straight lines of people, facing each other and standing about 1.5 to 2 metres apart.
  2. Instruct these people to swing their arms full stretch in front of them, up and down in a chopping motion.
  3. Ask a volunteer to stand at least 2 metres from one of the ends of the two lines, looking straight down the middle.
  4. Upon issuing a series of agreed ‘Are-you-ready?’ commands, ask the volunteer to walk down the corridor between the two lines.
  5. 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.
  6. The walker aims to maintain an even pace down the corridor until they exit the two lines, keeping their eyes open at all times.
  7. Slice & Dice Exciting trust-building challenge with courage & risk.
  8. Slice & Dice is an exciting trust-building challenge that creates memorable adrenaline-fuelled moments that strengthen bonds.
  9. 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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