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Fun Virtual Energiser Activity For Online Engagement - Look Left

Fun Virtual Energiser Activity For Online Engagement - Look Left is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

Under 5 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
RemoteSETTING
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. Ask your group to face their screens.
  2. Announce that over the course of 20 to 30 seconds, you will call a series of commands that will require each person to look to the left or right.
  3. Challenge each individual to respond to each of your commands as quickly and accurately as possible.
  4. Instruct each person to hold their look (to left or right) for a half-second before returning to equilibrium (facing the screen.)
  5. When ready, start issuing a random series of these two commands.
  6. Next, add two new commands of Up (to the ceiling) and Down (to the ground.)
  7. When ready, start announcing a random series of all four commands.
  8. Continue play for another 20 to 30 seconds and/or try a variation.
  9. Look Left Virtual energiser activity to boost focus & engagement.
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Prompts to use +

Ask your group to face their screens.

Announce that over the course of 20 to 30 seconds, you will call a series of commands that will require each person to look to the left or right.

Instruct each person to hold their look (to left or right) for a half-second before returning to equilibrium (facing the screen.)

When ready, start issuing a random series of these two commands.

When ready, start announcing a random series of all four commands.

Continue play for another 20 to 30 seconds and/or try a variation.

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Fun Virtual Energiser Activity For Online Engagement - Look Left. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask your group to face their screens.; Announce that over the course of 20 to 30 seconds, you will call a series of commands that will require each person to look to the left or right.; Instruct each person to hold their look (to left or right) for a half-second before returning to equilibrium (facing the screen.); When ready, start issuing a random series of these two commands.. 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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