Physical Team-Building Activity for Cooperation - Span The Room
Physical Team-Building Activity for Cooperation - Span The Room is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Locate a wide area between two points, such as two opposing walls, two trees, etc.
- Instruct your group to physically span the space between these two points using their bodies, forming a continuous connection between all people and the two ends.
- To record an official attempt, the connection must be established for five seconds.
- Over several consecutive rounds, challenge your group by progressively limiting the number and type of body parts that may touch the ground between the two points, eg five feet, two hands and one bottom.
- Continue until your group is ultimately challenged.
- Span The Room is a physical team-building activity that encourages creative thinking while strengthening group bonds through shared physical challenges.
- It will test your group’s teamwork and planning skills.
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To record an official attempt, the connection must be established for five seconds.
Over several consecutive rounds, challenge your group by progressively limiting the number and type of body parts that may touch the ground between the two points, eg five feet, two hands and one bottom.
Continue until your group is ultimately challenged.
It will test your group’s teamwork and planning skills.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Physical Team-Building Activity for Cooperation - Span The Room. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: To record an official attempt, the connection must be established for five seconds.; Over several consecutive rounds, challenge your group by progressively limiting the number and type of body parts that may touch the ground between the two points, eg five feet, two hands and one bottom.; Continue until your group is ultimately challenged.; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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