Hilarious Communication Skills Activity Teams Love - Charade Line
Hilarious Communication Skills Activity Teams Love - Charade Line is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Optional: Visit the Resources tab to download a set of sample storylines to inspire your group’s initial creativity.
- Gather your group, facing a ‘performance area.’
- Ask five volunteers to form a straight line facing side-on to the group, standing about a metre apart from each other.
- Tap the closest volunteer on the shoulder, inviting them to turn around and face you.
- Proceed to mime a 20 to 30-second story that features lots of action, intricate movements, use of imaginary props, etc.
- As the ‘storyteller,’ you cannot speak or use any verbal communication whatsoever.
- Other than the audience, only the first person you tapped will have witnessed your story.
- Once your story is complete, the first volunteer taps the shoulder of the next person in line and proceeds to re-tell the story as best as they can remember it.
- Charade Line Communication skills activity that creates outrageous laughter.
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Prompts to use +
Optional: Visit the Resources tab to download a set of sample storylines to inspire your group’s initial creativity.
Ask five volunteers to form a straight line facing side-on to the group, standing about a metre apart from each other.
Proceed to mime a 20 to 30-second story that features lots of action, intricate movements, use of imaginary props, etc.
As the ‘storyteller,’ you cannot speak or use any verbal communication whatsoever.
Other than the audience, only the first person you tapped will have witnessed your story.
Once your story is complete, the first volunteer taps the shoulder of the next person in line and proceeds to re-tell the story as best as they can remember it.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Hilarious Communication Skills Activity Teams Love - Charade Line. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Optional: Visit the Resources tab to download a set of sample storylines to inspire your group’s initial creativity.; Ask five volunteers to form a straight line facing side-on to the group, standing about a metre apart from each other.; Proceed to mime a 20 to 30-second story that features lots of action, intricate movements, use of imaginary props, etc.; As the ‘storyteller,’ you cannot speak or use any verbal communication whatsoever.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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