Quotes and Authors
Quotes and Authors is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- ●Print slips of paper with famous quotes and a separate slip of the famous authors that wrote each quote (e.g., one slip will say “All the worlds a stage…” and another will say “William Shakespeare”) ●Pass them out to participants
- Have the quotes search for their authors, and vice versa ●When the quote and author find each other, they must each share their first experience with the famous person to develop the relationships between the pairs
- Have the quotes search for their authors, and vice versa
- ●When the quote and author find each other, they must each share their first experience
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●Print slips of paper with famous quotes and a separate slip of the famous authors that wrote each quote (e.g., one slip will say “All the worlds a stage…” and another will say “William Shakespeare”) ●Pass them out to participants
Have the quotes search for their authors, and vice versa ●When the quote and author find each other, they must each share their first experience with the famous person to develop the relationships between the pairs
Have the quotes search for their authors, and vice versa
●When the quote and author find each other, they must each share their first experience
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Quotes and Authors. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: ●Print slips of paper with famous quotes and a separate slip of the famous authors that wrote each quote (e.g., one slip will say “All the worlds a stage…” and another will say “William Shakespeare”) ●Pass them out to participants; Have the quotes search for their authors, and vice versa ●When the quote and author find each other, they must each share their first experience with the famous person to develop the relationships between the pairs; Have the quotes search for their authors, and vice versa; ●When the quote and author find each other, they must each share their first experience. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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