Peeling your personality

Objectives

The activity makes diversity visible in the group, what is learned can be taken over into everyday life, because the whole society is diverse.

It aims to:

• Get to know each other
• Create a familiar atmosphere
• Making visible: the diversity of the group, one’s identity
• How do we see ourselves and are we recognizable and visible to others based on our own description?

Material

Paper (DIN A5) in 6 different colours, pen

Preparation

A circle of chairs should be formed.

Instructions

Each particpant gets 5 pieces of paper (DIN A5) in different colours. The faciliator asks a question and each particpant writes down the answer on one of the papers (the colour is the same for all). After that they crumple up the piece of paper.

Then the next question is asked, that paper will be crumpled around the first one. At the end each particpant has a ball with 5 layers. All the balls are thrown into the center and shuffled. Each person takes one ball. One person starts and uncovers the ball layer by layer and tries to recognize or guess the person based on the answers. The other participants can also guess. If the right person is found, the next participant takes his/her turn.

Possible questions:

• an external characteristic of mine (e.g. I like to wear silver earrings, sneakers, etc.)
• an interest of mine (hobbies, sports, movies, music)
• something typical of me (gestures, speech, appearance)
• something I am very good at
• something that inspires me
• something that others like about me
• a characteristic that I like about myself
• something that is important to me in my life (e.g. family, friends, values, belief, ideals)
• The coulour of the shirt I am wearing (could be the first question, makes it easier to guess the right person)