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Funny Circle Game Triggers Unstoppable Smiles - Super Smile

Funny Circle Game Triggers Unstoppable Smiles - Super Smile is a circle dialogue exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.

Under 5 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25), TriadsGROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In person, RemoteSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Network Design This relationship mapping exercise strengthens Network Design, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Challenge your group to record the fastest contagious smile ever!
  2. By way of demonstration, start your stopwatch and pass a big smile as you make eye contact with someone across the circle from you.
  3. Once this person smiles at you, start gently jumping up and down to indicate that the first smile has been sent.
  4. The person who received your smile now passes a smile to a new person in the circle.
  5. When everyone is jumping on the spot, stop time.
  6. Play for two or more rounds, attempting to record the fastest contagious smile ever.
  7. Super Smile Funny circle game creating contagious smiles & laughter.
  8. Super Smile is a funny circle game that bonds people through silly moments and contagious laughter.
  9. Ideal as a group energiser or time-filler, the group’s experience of shared humour will build connections that bring out everyone’s playful side.
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Prompts to use +

Challenge your group to record the fastest contagious smile ever!

By way of demonstration, start your stopwatch and pass a big smile as you make eye contact with someone across the circle from you.

Once this person smiles at you, start gently jumping up and down to indicate that the first smile has been sent.

When everyone is jumping on the spot, stop time.

Play for two or more rounds, attempting to record the fastest contagious smile ever.

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Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.

Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Funny Circle Game Triggers Unstoppable Smiles - Super Smile. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Challenge your group to record the fastest contagious smile ever!; By way of demonstration, start your stopwatch and pass a big smile as you make eye contact with someone across the circle from you.; Once this person smiles at you, start gently jumping up and down to indicate that the first smile has been sent.; When everyone is jumping on the spot, stop time.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

Origin unverified

  • 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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