Powerful Icebreaker Game for Group Awareness - Elevator Air
Powerful Icebreaker Game for Group Awareness - Elevator Air is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Ask each person to cross to the other side ‘as if’ they were in an elevator.’
- Upon crossing, ask the group to describe the atmosphere this crossing created.
- Ask each person to cross a second time, this time imagining they were in a car driving on the highway.
- Upon crossing, ask the group to describe the atmosphere this second crossing created.
- Ask each person to cross a final time, this time imagining they were at a party with their long-lost friends.
- Upon crossing, ask the group to describe the atmosphere this third crossing created.
- Elevator Air Powerful icebreaker game to reveal group dynamics through movement.
- Elevator Air invites participants to experiment with different emotional contexts as they move across a designated space.
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Prompts to use +
Ask each person to cross to the other side ‘as if’ they were in an elevator.’
Upon crossing, ask the group to describe the atmosphere this crossing created.
Ask each person to cross a second time, this time imagining they were in a car driving on the highway.
Upon crossing, ask the group to describe the atmosphere this second crossing created.
Ask each person to cross a final time, this time imagining they were at a party with their long-lost friends.
Upon crossing, ask the group to describe the atmosphere this third crossing created.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Powerful Icebreaker Game for Group Awareness - Elevator Air. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask each person to cross to the other side ‘as if’ they were in an elevator.’; Upon crossing, ask the group to describe the atmosphere this crossing created.; Ask each person to cross a second time, this time imagining they were in a car driving on the highway.; Upon crossing, ask the group to describe the atmosphere this second crossing created.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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