Shelling Corn
Shelling Corn is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Set clear prompts that invite reflection and contribution, such as describing a collective learning experience or representing a cultural value related to corn.
- Encourage the use of communication tools to share real-time reflections.
- Explain that the activity has practical, cultural, and reflective purposes.
- Mention that working with corn can symbolize cycles of learning, collaboration, and collective effort.
- Give each group one or two dried corn cobs and a container.
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Prompts to use +
Set clear prompts that invite reflection and contribution, such as describing a collective learning experience or representing a cultural value related to corn.
Encourage the use of communication tools to share real-time reflections.
Explain that the activity has practical, cultural, and reflective purposes.
Give each group one or two dried corn cobs and a container.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Shelling Corn. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Set clear prompts that invite reflection and contribution, such as describing a collective learning experience or representing a cultural value related to corn.; Encourage the use of communication tools to share real-time reflections.; Explain that the activity has practical, cultural, and reflective purposes.; Give each group one or two dried corn cobs and a container.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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