![]() What we’ve just done does sit outside for some people their Comfort zone. And in my experience a lot of exercises that often come under the heading of icebreakers or getting to know you sort of exercises often ask for too much too soon. Like I don’t know anybody, I don’t know your name, and now I’m on the spot and I have to do something. Yeah, it’s always going to depend, but typically in the beginning of a program when you’re putting people on the spot, how are they more often than not going to feel? ![]() Would you expect ordinarily the ability just to think up stuff on the spot to be challenging or not challenging? (So my lover was actually Madonna singing I made it by myself. ![]() (He told me that I should sing three songs by Madonna to the leprechaun and then he would grant my wish. So bring yourselves around a little bit and the last few people need to complete the story. I was thinking madly when…)Īlright, we’re down to our last few people now. (Sung three songs but I couldn’t decide which songs to sing. I was just coming to the end of it and suddenly…) When I started walking this is what I saw.)Īrm to your side. (So what was I to do but I was to start walking. My mind went to the RACV which unfortunately membership had run out.) (It was then I realised that I did not want to go to Daylesford and I had read my GPS wrong.) Who would like to add to that? Alright, Mike. (I was driving along the road in Daylesford at midnight and suddenly the car broke down…) Now someone who wanted to follow on from that part of the story. I’m not connected but it’s just that arm. ![]() I was driving along the road in Daylesford in the dark at midnight and all of a sudden the car broke down…)Īnd then put your arm to your side. Okay so Rosa, in a nice good voice start with… Who has something they might like to start with? If you’re familiar with the rules of improvisation it’s all about ‘and’ and not ‘but’, so it’s about the how you can add something to it rather than taking it away. Starting with one person, they get to kick it off any way they choose, but make it A. Whether it’s a happily ever after or not it doesn’t matter. Your objective is not only to continue the story but like all good stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end, I want you to bring the story home, not necessarily bring us back to where we started although that’s really cool, but to actually complete the story. If you happen to be some of the last three or four people, you have a special task. The object is that eventually everyone will be connected as we’ve built that story all the way around. It’s something often only about a sentence or less long. We don’t need an essay, a soliloquy, or anything of that nature. So if the first person said “I turned the corner and then…” and the next person said “I saw someone lying on the ground”, and then… So it’s in small snippets. In an improvisational approach someone else then from the rest of the group will then step forward, link arms or elbows with the person who started with the first part of that sentence and continue the story. So the first part of a story might be “I went down the street, I turned the corner and…” That would be the first part of the story. It will start with one person, a volunteer in a moment who will effectively just stand to my left-hand side and start telling a story.Īnd it’s effectively the first part of a story. And so this is an exercise that actually inspires that level of creativity. We’re wanting to inspire and develop people. A big part of many programs often involves many interpersonal skills and creativity is one that is often required or in demand.
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