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Re: Looking for a simple short icebreaker/warmup exercise for online


 

I tried a 'virtual milling' as a warm up - where I randomly assigned folks to pairs/breakouts just for 3 minutes in 3 rounds - to mix them up... encouraged them to 'move around' during the in/out process of breakouts... and to please click 'return to main' as soon as the 'count down' started to close the room.... So in and out for 3 quickie different pairings...They loved it - plus got them ready for the more serious breakout experiences later in the day...

3 questions?- 1 for each round
--how are you doing right now (with 'lock down' or pandemic - however your community would language it)
--what are your greatest hopes/fears for today's session
--what do you love about this organization
Susan Partnow
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4425 Baker Ave NW
Seattle, WA 98107
tel. 206-310-1203 ?(use this for WhatsApp with +1)
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Partnow Communications, Organizational Development & Workshops

Breathe deep.? Smell the roses.? Wash your hands!

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On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 5:46 PM Eva Schiffer <eva-schiffer@...> wrote:
Hi all,
Last week with a team that was willing to go deep, I asked them to share:
  • One fear they have
  • One hope they have and
  • One strength they have
What I loved about this is that it allowed us to acknowledge and engage with what keeps us busy (so the fear is not just a very loud background noise) but it doesn't stop there. I had the feeling that after we had shared (each writing their answers on a slide in a shared slide show and saying them out loud), we were much more "in it together". This was a small group, in a bigger group I would probably have had them have conversations about this in pairs or trios and only share out some observations afterward.
Good luck.
Eva

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