Little-Known Facts: Two Icebreakers
Little-Known Facts: Two Icebreakers is a personal disclosure exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Conclude the first round of the icebreaker after a suitable period of time. Repeat the activity by collecting the original LKF cards form the inquisitioners and giving them to the confessors. Switch the roles of the participants and replay the icebreaker.
- Here are some typical LKFs that participants share about themselves: I have a twin brother.
- In one of my workshops in Vancouver, two teams developed and conducted icebreakers that involved the use of LKFs.
- I offer them here for your use: Little Known Facts I Game Designers: David Scott and his teammates.
- Key element: Participants guess LKFs about other people by asking Yes/No questions.
- Participants: Any number Time: 20 minutes Supplies: Index cards Flow Distribute index cards to each participant.
- Ask the participants to write a little-known fact about themselves and keep it hidden from the others.
- Participants: Any number Time: 20 minutes Supplies: Index cards Flow Distri
- Repeat the activity by collecting the original LKF cards form the inquisitioners and giving them to the confessors.
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Conclude the first round of the icebreaker after a suitable period of time. Repeat the activity by collecting the original LKF cards form the inquisitioners and giving them to the confessors. Switch the roles of the participants and replay the icebreaker.
Here are some typical LKFs that participants share about themselves: I have a twin brother.
In one of my workshops in Vancouver, two teams developed and conducted icebreakers that involved the use of LKFs.
I offer them here for your use: Little Known Facts I Game Designers: David Scott and his teammates.
Key element: Participants guess LKFs about other people by asking Yes/No questions.
Participants: Any number Time: 20 minutes Supplies: Index cards Flow Distribute index cards to each participant.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Little-Known Facts: Two Icebreakers. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Conclude the first round of the icebreaker after a suitable period of time. Repeat the activity by collecting the original LKF cards form the inquisitioners and giving them to the confessors. Switch the roles of the participants and replay the icebreaker.; Here are some typical LKFs that participants share about themselves: I have a twin brother.; In one of my workshops in Vancouver, two teams developed and conducted icebreakers that involved the use of LKFs.; I offer them here for your use: Little Known Facts I Game Designers: David Scott and his teammates.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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