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Secret Person Selection, Group Facilitation Tips

Secret Person Selection, Group Facilitation Tips is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

Under 5 minutesTIME
Small group (4-8)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In person, RemoteSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Explain that you need to appoint a secret person before play can start.
  2. For example, ask your group to form a circle and then close their eyes, before you walk on the outside of the circle and tap one person secretly on the shoulder.
  3. With a secret person now appointed, you are ready to brief your next activity.
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Prompts to use +

Explain that you need to appoint a secret person before play can start.

For example, ask your group to form a circle and then close their eyes, before you walk on the outside of the circle and tap one person secretly on the shoulder.

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Secret Person Selection, Group Facilitation Tips. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Explain that you need to appoint a secret person before play can start.; For example, ask your group to form a circle and then close their eyes, before you walk on the outside of the circle and tap one person secretly on the shoulder.; ; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

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  • 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.)
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  • 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.
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