Powerful Trust-Building Activity With Flowing Support: Trust Line
Powerful Trust-Building Activity With Flowing Support: Trust Line is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Form one straight line, with one half of the group facing the other half of the group.
- Invite a volunteer (the faller) to stand between the two people facing each other in the middle of the line.
- The two people directly facing the ‘faller’ will assume a spotter’s stance, ie one foot forward, hands up, eyes straight ahead.
- The volunteer assumes a comfortable ‘faller’ position, ie arms crossed on chest, feet together, body firm.
- Upon issuing a series of ‘Are you ready?’ calls, the faller will choose to lean forward or backward into the waiting arms of one of the two spotters.
- This spotter will absorb the weight of the faller and then gently return them to their starting position.
- With a little momentum, this gentle push will allow the faller to lean gently into the arms of the other spotter.
- After each spotter has returned the faller to their starting position, they will immediately step out of the line to their left and join the end of the line they were facing.
- Trust Line Powerful trust-building activity with flowing partner support.
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Form one straight line, with one half of the group facing the other half of the group.
Invite a volunteer (the faller) to stand between the two people facing each other in the middle of the line.
Upon issuing a series of ‘Are you ready?’ calls, the faller will choose to lean forward or backward into the waiting arms of one of the two spotters.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Powerful Trust-Building Activity With Flowing Support: Trust Line. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Form one straight line, with one half of the group facing the other half of the group.; Invite a volunteer (the faller) to stand between the two people facing each other in the middle of the line.; Upon issuing a series of ‘Are you ready?’ calls, the faller will choose to lean forward or backward into the waiting arms of one of the two spotters.; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Playmeo; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Playmeo.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- 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.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.