Trust Walk
Trust Walk is an adventure initiative exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- All methods All authors IAF Library Library Trust Walk 81 61 Trust Walk is a great activity for workshop openings, especially if the workshop aims to build trust and understanding between participants.
- It challenges the participants to give up control over a situation and put their "fate" into other's hands.
- What was the experience like for you - as A? As B? What did you learn from it that could apply to the team's regular situations? What insights did you gain about each other's communication styles?
- Trust Walk From Teampedia Jump to: navigation, search Contents 1 Objectives 2 Group Size 3 Materials 4 Set Up 5 Directions 6 Debrief 7 Alternatives 8 Facilitator Notes about Trust Activities Objectives Build trust; get to know each other; appreciate diversity; explore the area in a new way .
- Set Up If any participants are blind or otherwise sight-challenged, this should be taken into consideration.
- If any participants are using wheelchairs or have other mobility challenges, this must be taken into consideration when determining the course and wh
- If any participants are using wheelchairs or have other mobility challenges, this must be taken into consideration when determining the course and when leading them or them being the leader.
- Identify an area or several areas where the walk can happen.
- Make sure each pair won't run into or interfere with each other they can begin at different points along a loop, or go on different paths.
- CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.
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All methods All authors IAF Library Library Trust Walk 81 61 Trust Walk is a great activity for workshop openings, especially if the workshop aims to build trust and understanding between participants.
It challenges the participants to give up control over a situation and put their "fate" into other's hands.
Trust Walk From Teampedia Jump to: navigation, search Contents 1 Objectives 2 Group Size 3 Materials 4 Set Up 5 Directions 6 Debrief 7 Alternatives 8 Facilitator Notes about Trust Activities Objectives Build trust; get to know each other; appreciate diversity; explore the area in a new way .
Set Up If any participants are blind or otherwise sight-challenged, this should be taken into consideration.
If any participants are using wheelchairs or have other mobility challenges, this must be taken into consideration when determining the course and wh
If any participants are using wheelchairs or have other mobility challenges, this must be taken into consideration when determining the course and when leading them or them being the leader.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Trust Walk. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: All methods All authors IAF Library Library Trust Walk 81 61 Trust Walk is a great activity for workshop openings, especially if the workshop aims to build trust and understanding between participants.; It challenges the participants to give up control over a situation and put their "fate" into other's hands.; Trust Walk From Teampedia Jump to: navigation, search Contents 1 Objectives 2 Group Size 3 Materials 4 Set Up 5 Directions 6 Debrief 7 Alternatives 8 Facilitator Notes about Trust Activities Objectives Build trust; get to know each other; appreciate diversity; explore the area in a new way .; Set Up If any participants are blind or otherwise sight-challenged, this should be taken into consideration.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The exercise appears across 2 observed source organizations in the current corpus. (2 sources observed, including SessionLab, Teampedia.)
- 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.