Suspenseful Group Game For Building Awareness Skills - Ghost
Suspenseful Group Game For Building Awareness Skills - Ghost is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Identify approximately 1 out of every 8 people in your group to be ‘ghosts.’
- Ask the ghosts to stand aside for a few moments.
- Invite the rest of your group to randomly distribute themselves throughout a specified area, then stand still and close their eyes.
- Challenge the ghosts to eliminate as many of the others in the group by attempting to stand directly behind one person (at a time) for 10 or more seconds.
- If a ghost can remain undetected for 10 seconds, they are entitled to tap the person gently on their shoulders to announce their presence (to eliminate that person.)
- If the presence of a ghost is detected in advance, the unsighted person will call “IS THERE A GHOST BEHIND ME?”
- If the call is correct, these two people swap roles, otherwise, the accuser is eliminated.
- Continue play until everyone has been eliminated or the time limit for the ghosts to perform their task has expired.
- Ghost Suspenseful group game to build awareness & excitement.
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Prompts to use +
Identify approximately 1 out of every 8 people in your group to be ‘ghosts.’
Ask the ghosts to stand aside for a few moments.
Invite the rest of your group to randomly distribute themselves throughout a specified area, then stand still and close their eyes.
Challenge the ghosts to eliminate as many of the others in the group by attempting to stand directly behind one person (at a time) for 10 or more seconds.
Continue play until everyone has been eliminated or the time limit for the ghosts to perform their task has expired.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Suspenseful Group Game For Building Awareness Skills - Ghost. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Identify approximately 1 out of every 8 people in your group to be ‘ghosts.’; Ask the ghosts to stand aside for a few moments.; Invite the rest of your group to randomly distribute themselves throughout a specified area, then stand still and close their eyes.; Challenge the ghosts to eliminate as many of the others in the group by attempting to stand directly behind one person (at a time) for 10 or more seconds.. 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.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.