Palm Tree - Fun & Creative Strategy to Explore Goal-Setting
Palm Tree - Fun & Creative Strategy to Explore Goal-Setting is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Lay a large sheet of paper (approx 1m x 1m) on a tabletop or floor.
- Gather your group around the outside edges of the paper.
- Instruct each person to draw the outline of one of their hands with a marker on the paper.
- If required, demonstrate first by drawing the outline of your hand on the paper.
- Request that as each person marks the outline of their hand that it overlaps (intersects) slightly with the outline of another handprint.
- Challenge your group to ensure that every handprint is visually connected to the handprints of the entire group, ie no islands.
- When ready, ask each person to write on the inside of their handprint a goal that they would like to achieve and then add their name.
- Invite several volunteers to share what they wrote and why in the context of your framing.
- Palm Tree Creative team-building activity to visualise goals & build connections.
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Instruct each person to draw the outline of one of their hands with a marker on the paper.
If required, demonstrate first by drawing the outline of your hand on the paper.
When ready, ask each person to write on the inside of their handprint a goal that they would like to achieve and then add their name.
Invite several volunteers to share what they wrote and why in the context of your framing.
Palm Tree Creative team-building activity to visualise goals & build connections.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Palm Tree - Fun & Creative Strategy to Explore Goal-Setting. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Instruct each person to draw the outline of one of their hands with a marker on the paper.; If required, demonstrate first by drawing the outline of your hand on the paper.; When ready, ask each person to write on the inside of their handprint a goal that they would like to achieve and then add their name.; Invite several volunteers to share what they wrote and why in the context of your framing.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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