Interactive Icebreaker Game for Exploring Diversity - Mapping
Interactive Icebreaker Game for Exploring Diversity - Mapping is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Gather your group around an object you have placed in the centre of your playing space.
- Announce that this object represents the centre of a giant map of the world.
- Over the next few minutes, announce a series of questions or statements to invite each person to move to a spot on the map that best represents their response.
- - Where in the world would you love to go on holiday?
- - Move to the location of a recent world/news-making event.
- Continue playing for several minutes, inviting lots of mixing.
- Mapping Interactive icebreaker game to explore connections & diversity.
- Mapping is an interactive icebreaker game that invites groups to imagine a map on which they reveal their origins, dreams, and perspectives in an engaging, physical way.
- The activity sparks natural conversations about experiences, backgrounds, and cultural awareness while actively building connections.
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Prompts to use +
Gather your group around an object you have placed in the centre of your playing space.
Announce that this object represents the centre of a giant map of the world.
Over the next few minutes, announce a series of questions or statements to invite each person to move to a spot on the map that best represents their response.
- Where in the world would you love to go on holiday?
- Move to the location of a recent world/news-making event.
Continue playing for several minutes, inviting lots of mixing.
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: Interactive Icebreaker Game for Exploring Diversity - Mapping. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Gather your group around an object you have placed in the centre of your playing space.; Announce that this object represents the centre of a giant map of the world.; Over the next few minutes, announce a series of questions or statements to invite each person to move to a spot on the map that best represents their response.; - Where in the world would you love to go on holiday?. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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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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