Group Energiser Game Builds Focus & Team Awareness - Popping Corn
Group Energiser Game Builds Focus & Team Awareness - Popping Corn is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Ask your group to stand in a circle.
- Invite your group to practice popping like corn several times.
- Challenge your group to complete this task - over the course of the next 60 seconds, every person must pop once only, but not at the same time as another person.
- No one is permitted to establish a pattern, nor are they allowed to indicate or gesture to another person their intention to pop.
- When ready, everyone starts in a crouching position.
- If two (or more) people pop at the same time, restart the exercise.
- Continue play until the task is complete, or your group’s energy starts to wane.
- Popping Corn Group energiser game to build focus & team awareness.
- Popping Corn is a fun group energiser game that builds concentration skills whilst creating moments of explosive energy and shared laughter.
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Ask your group to stand in a circle.
Invite your group to practice popping like corn several times.
Challenge your group to complete this task - over the course of the next 60 seconds, every person must pop once only, but not at the same time as another person.
Continue play until the task is complete, or your group’s energy starts to wane.
Popping Corn Group energiser game to build focus & team awareness.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Group Energiser Game Builds Focus & Team Awareness - Popping Corn. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask your group to stand in a circle.; Invite your group to practice popping like corn several times.; Challenge your group to complete this task - over the course of the next 60 seconds, every person must pop once only, but not at the same time as another person.; Continue play until the task is complete, or your group’s energy starts to wane.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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