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Super Fun Group Energiser with Balloons Competition - Star Wars

Super Fun Group Energiser with Balloons Competition - Star Wars is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25)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. Distribute one balloon to each person in your group.
  2. Encourage people to inflate their balloons as large as possible, and write their name on them.
  3. Identify one or more boundaries in your playing space, indicating that all play occurs within this area.
  4. Ask your group to begin moving about the room, gently tapping their balloons with an open palm.
  5. When ready, each person is entitled to strike their balloon into the path of another in an attempt to cause the latter to cross one of the boundary lines.
  6. Whenever someone’s balloon is knocked out of the playing space, that person (and their balloon) is eliminated.
  7. At no time may a person hold or grasp their balloon to prevent it from being hit.
  8. Announce that each person should aim to keep their balloon in the playing space for as long as possible.
  9. Star Wars Fun group energiser with competitive balloon elimination.
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Prompts to use +

Distribute one balloon to each person in your group.

Encourage people to inflate their balloons as large as possible, and write their name on them.

Identify one or more boundaries in your playing space, indicating that all play occurs within this area.

Ask your group to begin moving about the room, gently tapping their balloons with an open palm.

At no time may a person hold or grasp their balloon to prevent it from being hit.

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Super Fun Group Energiser with Balloons Competition - Star Wars. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Distribute one balloon to each person in your group.; Encourage people to inflate their balloons as large as possible, and write their name on them.; Identify one or more boundaries in your playing space, indicating that all play occurs within this area.; Ask your group to begin moving about the room, gently tapping their balloons with an open palm.. 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 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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