Teambuilding
> 60 min.
Large group, Small group
Upto 15 min
Materials needed
Speaking
Cultural awareness, Sharing knowledge
Empathy, Communication, Self-presentation
Self-presentation, Self-expression
Objectives
- Human connection
- Getting to know different cultures
- Finding resemblences
- Exploring cultural expressions
- Empathy
- Finding shared values
- Dialogue
Material
Instructions
We all have our stories! Walks of life with challenges, ups and downs. During this activity participants share their life-journeys. A set of ’life journey-cards’ guide them through an exploration of life!
Participants can work in pairs or in a small group (max.4). One person draws a card from the stack of ’life journey cards’ and puts it in the middle. The question(s) on the card prompts participants to share their story. Participants can ask eachother follow-up questions to deepen the dialogue.
The groups can be reconfigured to start new dialogues. Time keeping is an option to facilitate the dialogue so that every participant has enough time to share their story.
Variant
As a way of stimulating active listening you can ask participants to make a mindmap while they are listening to the story. At the end they can paraphrase the story, using the mindmap.
Closing Up
Make sure the learners feel safe before you start doing this activity with them! This activity should not be done at the start or beginning of a training.