Fun Strength-Finding Exercise For Personal Discovery - Encanto
Fun Strength-Finding Exercise For Personal Discovery - Encanto is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Invite each person to share their ideal superpower with their partner.
- When ready, ask each person to identify a secret location or position within the room or playing space you are situated as their own.
- Instruct one person at a time to verbally guide their partner to walk to their secret location by playing a game of “getting cooler/warmer” prompts.
- Once both secret locations have been discovered, invite each pair to identify a spot that is positioned (and accessible) between these two locations.
- Meeting at this spot, conclude by asking each person to share one of their strengths in real life, ie their candle.
- Invite all pairs to consider using this familiar spot to meet and connect at other useful times during your program.
- Encanto Strength-finding exercise to celebrate unique gifts & build connections.
- Encanto begins with fun hypothetical discussions before shifting to a playful navigation challenge that connects participants.
- As a strength-finding exercise, the activity culminates in a powerful moment where individuals share their real-life strengths, creating a symbolic meeting place that can become a touchpoint for future interactions.
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Prompts to use +
Invite each person to share their ideal superpower with their partner.
When ready, ask each person to identify a secret location or position within the room or playing space you are situated as their own.
Once both secret locations have been discovered, invite each pair to identify a spot that is positioned (and accessible) between these two locations.
Meeting at this spot, conclude by asking each person to share one of their strengths in real life, ie their candle.
Invite all pairs to consider using this familiar spot to meet and connect at other useful times during your program.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Fun Strength-Finding Exercise For Personal Discovery - Encanto. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Invite each person to share their ideal superpower with their partner.; When ready, ask each person to identify a secret location or position within the room or playing space you are situated as their own.; Once both secret locations have been discovered, invite each pair to identify a spot that is positioned (and accessible) between these two locations.; Meeting at this spot, conclude by asking each person to share one of their strengths in real life, ie their candle.. 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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