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Storytelling with Picture Prompts: Creative Team Game

Storytelling with Picture Prompts: Creative Team Game is a collaborative story building exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Small group (4-8)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
Hybrid, RemoteSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Network Design This relationship mapping exercise strengthens Network Design, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Give each team four pictures.
  2. Teams have 8-10 minutes to build a coherent story.
  3. Share stories; optional vote for ‘best plot’ or ‘funniest twist’.
  4. 4+ PlayersHybrid15 minEasy How to Play This Icebreaker Game 1.
  5. 2Teams have 8-10 minutes to build a
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Prompts to use +

Give each team four pictures.

Teams have 8-10 minutes to build a coherent story.

Share stories; optional vote for ‘best plot’ or ‘funniest twist’.

4+ PlayersHybrid15 minEasy How to Play This Icebreaker Game 1.

2Teams have 8-10 minutes to build a

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Storytelling with Picture Prompts: Creative Team Game. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Give each team four pictures.; Teams have 8-10 minutes to build a coherent story.; Share stories; optional vote for ‘best plot’ or ‘funniest twist’.; 4+ PlayersHybrid15 minEasy How to Play This Icebreaker Game 1.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

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