Ultimate Ball
Ultimate Ball is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- On the leader’s signal, the team starting on defense throws the ball to the offensive team.
- One player from the offense either catches the ball or picks it up where it lands, and tries to pass it to one of his/her teammates.
- The offense tries to advance the ball down the field with passes, and scores a point if one of the team members catches the ball in the end zone.
- The defense tries to block or knock down the ball to gain possession. If a ball is knocked down or intercepted, play of the game is switched and the defense now becomes the offense, heading toward their end zone.
- Players may not touch each other, even while playing defense and must keep a safe distance from the player with the ball.
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Prompts to use +
One player from the offense either catches the ball or picks it up where it lands, and tries to pass it to one of his/her teammates.
The defense tries to block or knock down the ball to gain possession. If a ball is knocked down or intercepted, play of the game is switched and the defense now becomes the offense, heading toward their end zone.
Players may not touch each other, even while playing defense and must keep a safe distance from the player with the ball.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Ultimate Ball. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: One player from the offense either catches the ball or picks it up where it lands, and tries to pass it to one of his/her teammates.; The defense tries to block or knock down the ball to gain possession. If a ball is knocked down or intercepted, play of the game is switched and the defense now becomes the offense, heading toward their end zone.; Players may not touch each other, even while playing defense and must keep a safe distance from the player with the ball.. 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 Playworks; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Playworks.)
- 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.