09-10-2012, 01:33 PM
Group dynamics exercises
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Line up
Steps
A. The participants form two groups. If the number of participants is odd, the
smaller group should be complemented by one of the facilitators.
B. The facilitator explains the rules of game and checks to make sure that
everyone understands them. The procedure is as follows:
B.1 The two groups will compete to see which can line up most quickly
according to personal or physical characteristics following the
instructions of the facilitator.
B.2 After naming the characteristic and giving instructions for how to
form the line (e.g. the characteristic is height: line up from shortest
to tallest), the facilitator will slowly count to 10. If a group finishes
forming the line before the facilitator reaches 10, the participants
should all squat or raise their hands (agree on the movement to
make) to indicate that they have accomplished the task. The first
group to finish will be the first to check whether the sequence they
made is correct.
B.3 The facilitator checks with each group to determine whether the
sequence they made is correct.
B.4 The group that lined up most quickly and with the fewest errors is
the winner.
Family members
Steps
A. Determine the number of groups needed. When assigning groups for field
observations, for instance, each group should have four to five members.
Place the pebbles or pieces of wood on the ground in a large circle. The
number of pebbles totals the number of participants minus one.
B. Request that each participant stands in front of a pebble. The one who
does not have a pebble stands in the center of the circle with the
facilitator. Mention that this game requires active involvement of everyone.
C. Ask the participants to suggest names for the groups to be formed. The
names should be related to the activities or themes of the field school, e.g.
natural enemy names like dragonfly, spider, or sweetpotato variety names,
etc. The facilitator assigns a group name to each person in the circle by
counting down (A, B, C, D, A, B, C, etc.), and at last to the person standing
in the center of the circle. There should be approximately equal numbers
of group members with the same name.
D. To make sure everyone remembers his or her name, the facilitator calls
out one of the group names and the persons with that name raise their
hands. All the names are practiced once or twice.