Greeting Frenzy - SEL 3 Signature Practices Playbook
Greeting Frenzy - SEL 3 Signature Practices Playbook is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Reflect on the current contexts, demographics of participants, and the purpose of this engagement.
- Determine how the room can be set up to safely accommodate participants moving quickly around in the space.
- Participants will move around the room and greet as many people as possible within a set amount of time (determined by facilitator) with the invitation to:
- Make a brief connection: handshake, high 5, fist or elbow bump
- If not comfortable with a physical connection, participants can place a hand on their own heart
- Invite participants who are not able to move easily to stay in place and others will come to them.
- Set the timer and use your previously agreed-upon attention signal to bring the room to full quiet before debriefing.
- Debrief by asking one or more of these questions: “How’s your energy? Notice a lift in the room? (Elevate the physiological and emotional aspects noted by participants.) Why do you think that’s the case?”
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Prompts to use +
Reflect on the current contexts, demographics of participants, and the purpose of this engagement.
Determine how the room can be set up to safely accommodate participants moving quickly around in the space.
Participants will move around the room and greet as many people as possible within a set amount of time (determined by facilitator) with the invitation to:
If not comfortable with a physical connection, participants can place a hand on their own heart
Invite participants who are not able to move easily to stay in place and others will come to them.
Set the timer and use your previously agreed-upon attention signal to bring the room to full quiet before debriefing.
Run this with your AI assistant +
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: Greeting Frenzy - SEL 3 Signature Practices Playbook. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Reflect on the current contexts, demographics of participants, and the purpose of this engagement.; Determine how the room can be set up to safely accommodate participants moving quickly around in the space.; Participants will move around the room and greet as many people as possible within a set amount of time (determined by facilitator) with the invitation to:; If not comfortable with a physical connection, participants can place a hand on their own heart. 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 CASEL; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including CASEL.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- 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.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.