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Exercises for Small Groups

Exercises designed for small groups of three to eight people, small enough for everyone to speak.

This category groups exercises by the group size they are built for.

1,858 exercises

Don't Touch Me

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Izzat You?

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Match & Out

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

T Puzzle: UWT Four-Piece Version

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Skipping Rope

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Pass Through

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Sticks

Relationship Mapping · 15 to 30 minutes

Two-Person Scene Sine Waves

Applied Improv · 5 to 15 minutes

Make a World

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Creation of Instructional Resources

Team Reflection · 30 to 60 minutes

Harvest

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Closing Triangles

Relationship Mapping · 15 to 30 minutes

Digital Presence

Applied Improv · 15 to 30 minutes

Awestruck 3 Minutes

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Mandala

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Bridging the Gap: Inter-Team Communication

Team Reflection · 60+ minutes

Positive-Negative Storytelling

Collaborative Story Building · 5 to 15 minutes

Snowball Toss

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Johnny Oops

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Superiority

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Ninja

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Commonalities

Relationship Mapping · 15 to 30 minutes

Telepathic Review

Asynchronous Remote Game · 5 to 15 minutes

Marshmallow Challenge

Relationship Mapping · 30 to 60 minutes

Spectrum Mapping

Relationship Mapping · 30 to 60 minutes

Making Masks

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Cultivating a Willingness to Play

Team Reflection · 30 to 60 minutes

Practicing Generosity of Interpretation

Team Reflection · 30 to 60 minutes

Twice Around the Block

Relationship Mapping · 15 to 30 minutes

How Might We

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Gratitude Jar Ceremony

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

The Rock

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Palm Tree

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Air Names

Name Learning · 5 to 15 minutes

Lap Circle

Circle Dialogue · 5 to 15 minutes

Challenge Axis

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Carousel

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Improv Prototyping

Applied Improv · 15 to 30 minutes

Skill Will Matrix

Team Reflection · 30 to 60 minutes

Epic Failure

Team Reflection · 30 to 60 minutes

Celebrity Interview

Prompted Conversation · 30 to 60 minutes

Image Brainstorming

Prompted Conversation · 15 to 30 minutes

Poll and Predict: Characteristics of Effective Facilitators

Team Reflection · 15 to 30 minutes

Visual Icebreaker: Show and Tell

Visual Thinking · 5 to 15 minutes

Through The Wringer

Applied Improv · 5 to 15 minutes

Lean Walk

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Fist to Five

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Story of Your Name

Collaborative Story Building · 5 to 15 minutes

Group Pictionary Relay

Visual Thinking · 15 to 30 minutes

Mindfulness Jar

Team Reflection · 15 to 30 minutes

Polarity Mapping

Relationship Mapping · 60+ minutes

Experience Quotes

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Everybody Up

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

1-2-4-All

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

ESP

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

I've Got The Power Stretch

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Names Stock Market

Name Learning · 5 to 15 minutes

Empowered Teams

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

SCAMPER Idea Generation

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Mind-Reading Framegame

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Fight Right: Three Roleplays to Explore Conflict Management

Prompted Conversation · 30 to 60 minutes

Why

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Offline Social Network

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

People Science Aerobics

Personal Disclosure · 15 to 30 minutes

Comfort Zone Circles

Circle Dialogue · 5 to 15 minutes

I Pass This Shoe

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

A What?

Circle Dialogue · 15 to 30 minutes

Two Truths and a Dream

Personal Disclosure · 5 to 15 minutes

Block Party

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Come To Me

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Little-Known Facts

Personal Disclosure · 15 to 30 minutes

Human Camera

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Story Maps

Collaborative Story Building · 15 to 30 minutes

Airplane Metaphor Game

General Collaboration Exercise · 60+ minutes

Water Fountains

Team Reflection · 60+ minutes

Personal Buzzfeed

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Wine Pairing

Relationship Mapping · 30 to 60 minutes

Yarn and a Network

Visual Thinking · 15 to 30 minutes

Arc of Engagement Exercise

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Everyone Talk about Person X

Team Reflection · 15 to 30 minutes

Crossword Names

Name Learning · 5 to 15 minutes

Identity Crisis

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

3-12-3 Brainstorm

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Deportment Tag

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Treasure Hunt

Team Reflection · 30 to 60 minutes

Bill and the Button Factory

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

GROW Coaching

Team Reflection · 30 to 60 minutes

Journey Mapping

Relationship Mapping · 60+ minutes

Random Words

Prompted Conversation · 15 to 30 minutes

Problem Chain

Relationship Mapping · 60+ minutes

10 Minutes: An Exercise in Mindfulness

Team Reflection · 15 to 30 minutes

Samurai

Circle Dialogue · 5 to 15 minutes

Paradigm Shift Clock

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Velcro Circle

Circle Dialogue · 5 to 15 minutes

Elevator Air

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Idea Boxes

General Collaboration Exercise · 15 to 30 minutes

Stones Debrief

Relationship Mapping · 15 to 30 minutes

Insight Exchange

Prompted Conversation · 15 to 30 minutes

Collaborative Benchmarking

Team Reflection · 30 to 60 minutes

Bodystorming

Applied Improv · 30 to 60 minutes

Now, Next, Later

Team Reflection · 30 to 60 minutes

Do Talk Give Take

Personal Disclosure · 5 to 15 minutes

Power Position

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Balloon Propulsion Debrief

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Nine Whys

Relationship Mapping · 15 to 30 minutes

Around the World

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Human Knot

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Participatory Infographic

Visual Thinking · 60+ minutes

Asteroids

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Acronyms

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Dress Me Ups

Relationship Mapping · 15 to 30 minutes

Panarchy

Relationship Mapping · 60+ minutes

The Comfort Confession

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Circles of Influence

Circle Dialogue · 30 to 60 minutes

Zine Creation

Relationship Mapping · 30 to 60 minutes

Creative Problem Solving Suite

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Idea Speed Dating

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Whole Product Game

Circle Dialogue · 30 to 60 minutes

Making Conflict Useful

General Collaboration Exercise · 60+ minutes

Third Degree

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Inner Circle Outer Circle Walk and Talk

Circle Dialogue · 15 to 30 minutes

Awareness Race

Relationship Mapping · 15 to 30 minutes

Passing Notecards

Prompted Conversation · 5 to 15 minutes

Awareness of Social Identity

Team Reflection · 30 to 60 minutes

Hot Box

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Name Train

Name Learning · 5 to 15 minutes

Negotiation Gesture Consensus

Team Reflection · 15 to 30 minutes

Isometric Stretch

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Unofficial Start

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Octopus Tag

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Turn Over A New Leaf

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Playing Card Mixers

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Walk and Stop

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Potent Poetry

Team Reflection · 15 to 30 minutes

Celebrity Dodgeball

Circle Dialogue · 5 to 15 minutes

Individual Perspectives

Circle Dialogue · 30 to 60 minutes

50 Word Epiphany

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Drawing for Success Superheroes

Visual Thinking · 5 to 15 minutes

Mapping Complexity with a Fishbone Diagram

Relationship Mapping · 30 to 60 minutes

Safety Stories

Relationship Mapping · 15 to 30 minutes

Photo Storytelling

Collaborative Story Building · 15 to 30 minutes

Stop and Go

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

Magic Nine Numbers

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

As If

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Butt Charades

Applied Improv · 5 to 15 minutes

Transcultural Emails

Team Reflection · 30 to 60 minutes

Don't Believe Everything You Think

Personal Disclosure · 60+ minutes

Silly Dancing

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

99 Seconds Rapid Panel

Relationship Mapping · 30 to 60 minutes

Snake

Team Reflection · 5 to 15 minutes

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