Loser Ball
Loser Ball is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- And rather than being upset that they couldn't catch it, the rest of the circle cheers wildly as if failing to catch the ball was the best thing they've ever seen.
- The more spectacularly someone fails at catching the ball, the more excited the group should be.
- The ball is thrown to a person, preferably by naming that person ("here John") or some other way to focus the group on the catcher.
- CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.
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CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Loser Ball. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Improv Encyclopedia; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (2 sources observed, including Improv Encyclopedia, SessionLab.)
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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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