Shake It Out
Shake It Out is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- All players stand in a circle and "shake out
- Then repeat exactly the same cycle above with 8 shakes
- Continue the same pattern again with 4 shakesh except everyone is moving between limbs much faster
- After complete, but without losing a beat, everyone shakes their left hand.
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Prompts to use +
All players stand in a circle and "shake out
Then repeat exactly the same cycle above with 8 shakes
Continue the same pattern again with 4 shakesh except everyone is moving between limbs much faster
After complete, but without losing a beat, everyone shakes their left hand.
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Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Shake It Out. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: All players stand in a circle and "shake out; Then repeat exactly the same cycle above with 8 shakes; Continue the same pattern again with 4 shakesh except everyone is moving between limbs much faster; After complete, but without losing a beat, everyone shakes their left hand.. 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 Relationship Makers Handbook; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Relationship Makers Handbook.)
- 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.