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sociogram: an exercise in which participants arrange their bodies to show something about themselves or to stimulate a new awareness. For example, participants are asked to range themselves along a line that shows how long they've been active with a particular cause. See also "spectrum."
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  Ankle Walk
 A simple group challenge: get across the room as one line together -- with a twist -- keep your ankles together. This adventure-based learning activity can surface group issues around leadership, decision-making, and group conflict.

 
  I am the center...
 Whenever a new group forms people are always curious: Who else is in the room? This kinesthetic exercise allows peoples curiousity to show up and to learn about who is in the room. And, does it in a way that gets people working together.

 
  Task and Maintenance: What makes groups work?
 This tool is a quick, easy tool that is effective at helping groups understand the different roles in making groups work: different leadership skills. Its based on a piece of feminist theory that understands different leadership skills: Task and Maintenance.

 
  Fishbowl: “Worst meeting ever…”
 Groups can love sharing stories of their worst meetings! Here participants get to act out the worst meeting ever, and then what a good meeting looks like. It's light and playful, and a great way to get into a discussion about how to make group meetings work well.

 
  Team Types
 Team types is a straightforward tool for participants to learn about themselves through identifying within four different categories, each representing different aspects of how people may operate in group settings.

 
  Stepping Stones
 This tool out of the field of "adventure-based learning" is an effective team-building exercise. We've had success with it in Thailand, Burma, Russia, Canada and more -- that's why it's one of our favorites.

 
  Puzzle Squares
 A tool from the field of adventure-based learning (ABL), puzzle squares is a group challenge that helps to look at leadership issues and communication within a team. The goal is simple enough -- create a square -- but the process elicits key conversation about how decisions get made in groups, and how to communicate effectively.

 
 


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Training for Change has led hundreds of workshops for activists around the world, including crowd control workshops for Mohawks, strategy retreats for Greenpeace, and civil disobedience classes for ACT-UP. Read more about TFC and its work.

Above: George Lakey leading strike training for the United Steelworkers.

 
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