Fun Group Storytelling Game For Creativity - The Story Game
Fun Group Storytelling Game For Creativity - The Story Game is a collaborative story building exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Explain that one person will aim to retell a story that the rest of the group has created without their input.
- To start, ask one person to leave the room to a space where they cannot hear what is being discussed by the rest of the group.
- Upon the volunteer’s absence, ask your group to nominate two ‘things’ - one ending with a vowel and the other ending with a consonant, eg kangaroo and train.
- This is the story: when the volunteer asks a question if the last word ends with a consonant, the group must answer “YES,” and if it ends with a vowel, the group must answer “NO.”
- Invite the storyteller to return to the group and inform them that the story involves the two ‘things’ nominated by the group.
- The storyteller may only ask questions that can be answered with a “YES” or “NO” response.
- The storyteller starts by asking their first question to re-create the story.
- The Story Game Fun group storytelling game to develop creativity & deduction.
- The Story Game engages participants whilst building imagination and communication abilities through engaging questioning and listening skills.
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Explain that one person will aim to retell a story that the rest of the group has created without their input.
To start, ask one person to leave the room to a space where they cannot hear what is being discussed by the rest of the group.
Upon the volunteer’s absence, ask your group to nominate two ‘things’ - one ending with a vowel and the other ending with a consonant, eg kangaroo and train.
This is the story: when the volunteer asks a question if the last word ends with a consonant, the group must answer “YES,” and if it ends with a vowel, the group must answer “NO.”
Invite the storyteller to return to the group and inform them that the story involves the two ‘things’ nominated by the group.
The storyteller may only ask questions that can be answered with a “YES” or “NO” response.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Fun Group Storytelling Game For Creativity - The Story Game. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Explain that one person will aim to retell a story that the rest of the group has created without their input.; To start, ask one person to leave the room to a space where they cannot hear what is being discussed by the rest of the group.; Upon the volunteer’s absence, ask your group to nominate two ‘things’ - one ending with a vowel and the other ending with a consonant, eg kangaroo and train.; This is the story: when the volunteer asks a question if the last word ends with a consonant, the group must answer “YES,” and if it ends with a vowel, the group must answer “NO.”. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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