WHO SAID THAT?
WHO SAID THAT? is a personal disclosure exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Ask one participant to shuffle the answer cards and deal them out, face down, one card at a time.
- Announce that the activity will last for 10 more minutes. Start a timer.
- Ask the first participant to take one of the cards and read it aloud. If asked, this participant may read the card again, but may not show the card to anyone. (This is to prevent participants from recognizing the handwriting on the card.)
- All the participants (except the reader) now guess who wrote the card, and write down their guess. (The person who actually wrote the card should write down his or her own name, assuming that he or she is not the reader.)
- The second participant now selects one of his or her cards and reads it aloud. The same procedure is repeated.
- Stop the game at the end of 10 minutes. Declare the person with the most correct guesses to be the winner.
- To bring things to a close, ask the participants to read the answers on the remaining cards and ask the writers to identify themselves.
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Prompts to use +
Ask one participant to shuffle the answer cards and deal them out, face down, one card at a time.
Announce that the activity will last for 10 more minutes. Start a timer.
Ask the first participant to take one of the cards and read it aloud. If asked, this participant may read the card again, but may not show the card to anyone. (This is to prevent participants from recognizing the handwriting on the card.)
All the participants (except the reader) now guess who wrote the card, and write down their guess. (The person who actually wrote the card should write down his or her own name, assuming that he or she is not the reader.)
The second participant now selects one of his or her cards and reads it aloud. The same procedure is repeated.
Stop the game at the end of 10 minutes. Declare the person with the most correct guesses to be the winner.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: WHO SAID THAT?. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask one participant to shuffle the answer cards and deal them out, face down, one card at a time.; Announce that the activity will last for 10 more minutes. Start a timer.; Ask the first participant to take one of the cards and read it aloud. If asked, this participant may read the card again, but may not show the card to anyone. (This is to prevent participants from recognizing the handwriting on the card.); All the participants (except the reader) now guess who wrote the card, and write down their guess. (The person who actually wrote the card should write down his or her own name, assuming that he or she is not the reader.). Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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