Fun Warm-Up Game That Builds Energy & Connection - Wave Stretch
Fun Warm-Up Game That Builds Energy & Connection - Wave Stretch is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Form a circle facing into the centre, including yourself.
- Initiate a quirky movement or stretch, and ask that it be quickly mimicked by everyone else, one person at a time, in a clockwise direction around the circle.
- When everybody is performing your movement, you continue to do it while your left-hand neighbour introduces a new movement.
- The new movement is mimicked all the way around the circle, and finally adopted by you when it passes you.
- Continue this routine for several minutes.
- Wave Stretch Fun warm-up game that builds energy & group connection.
- Wave Stretch is a fun warm-up game that’s as easy as forming a circle and then inviting your group to create a series of innovative movements to stretch their bodies.
- Ideally used as a fun icebreaker game, active group energiser, or just to generate a lot of movement and laughter.
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Form a circle facing into the centre, including yourself.
Initiate a quirky movement or stretch, and ask that it be quickly mimicked by everyone else, one person at a time, in a clockwise direction around the circle.
When everybody is performing your movement, you continue to do it while your left-hand neighbour introduces a new movement.
Continue this routine for several minutes.
Wave Stretch is a fun warm-up game that’s as easy as forming a circle and then inviting your group to create a series of innovative movements to stretch their bodies.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Fun Warm-Up Game That Builds Energy & Connection - Wave Stretch. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Form a circle facing into the centre, including yourself.; Initiate a quirky movement or stretch, and ask that it be quickly mimicked by everyone else, one person at a time, in a clockwise direction around the circle.; When everybody is performing your movement, you continue to do it while your left-hand neighbour introduces a new movement.; Continue this routine for several minutes.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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