Fun Team Trust Activity For Building Group Support - Lap Circle
Fun Team Trust Activity For Building Group Support - Lap Circle is a circle dialogue exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Form a very tight circle, with each person facing to their left.
- Each person places their hands gently onto the shoulders of the person in front of them.
- Check that your group is actually standing in a circle, ie no corners.
- When ready, invite everyone to slowly bend at their knees, and push their butt out to gently sit down on the lap of the person behind them.
- Sit for as long as your group is comfortable.
- Lap Circle Team trust activity to build confidence & cooperation.
- Lap Circle blends individual balance into a shared experience that shows the power of interdependence.
- As a team trust activity, it leads to powerful insights about relationships and how teams support each other.
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Form a very tight circle, with each person facing to their left.
When ready, invite everyone to slowly bend at their knees, and push their butt out to gently sit down on the lap of the person behind them.
Sit for as long as your group is comfortable.
Lap Circle Team trust activity to build confidence & cooperation.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Fun Team Trust Activity For Building Group Support - Lap Circle. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Form a very tight circle, with each person facing to their left.; When ready, invite everyone to slowly bend at their knees, and push their butt out to gently sit down on the lap of the person behind them.; Sit for as long as your group is comfortable.; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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