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Interactive Guessing Game For Non-Verbal Communication - FFEACH

Interactive Guessing Game For Non-Verbal Communication - FFEACH is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Small group (4-8)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In personSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. In advance, visit the Resources tab to download a sample list of names representing the topics of fast foods, electric appliances and comic book heroes/heroines.
  2. Locate each team well apart from one another.
  3. Invite one person from each team to approach you.
  4. Leaning in close to these volunteers, whisper the name of the first topic on your list.
  5. Instruct these volunteers to return to their group and use a series of non-verbal gestures to communicate this topic to their team as quickly and effectively as possible.
  6. As soon as the topic is identified correctly, a new person from the team returns to you to check their answer.
  7. If the answer is correct, you whisper the next topic on your list.
  8. FFEACH Interactive guessing game to enhance non-verbal communication.
  9. As an interactive guessing game, FFEACH creates a lively atmosphere as participants take turns interpreting their teammates’ creative non-verbal cues while promoting keen observation skills and developing alternative communication methods.
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Prompts to use +

In advance, visit the Resources tab to download a sample list of names representing the topics of fast foods, electric appliances and comic book heroes/heroines.

Invite one person from each team to approach you.

Leaning in close to these volunteers, whisper the name of the first topic on your list.

Instruct these volunteers to return to their group and use a series of non-verbal gestures to communicate this topic to their team as quickly and effectively as possible.

As soon as the topic is identified correctly, a new person from the team returns to you to check their answer.

If the answer is correct, you whisper the next topic on your list.

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Interactive Guessing Game For Non-Verbal Communication - FFEACH. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: In advance, visit the Resources tab to download a sample list of names representing the topics of fast foods, electric appliances and comic book heroes/heroines.; Invite one person from each team to approach you.; Leaning in close to these volunteers, whisper the name of the first topic on your list.; Instruct these volunteers to return to their group and use a series of non-verbal gestures to communicate this topic to their team as quickly and effectively as possible.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

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