Possible outcomes:
Learning everyone’s names.
Creating relatedness between participants.
Creating a positive atmosphere.
Overview:
Participants line up alphabetically in a circle. Each person gets a turn to share something nice that happened to them in the last week.
Time: 5-10 minutes
Number of Participants: 4-12. For larger groups devide the group in smaller circles.
Game flow:
Invite participants to line up in the circle alphabetically by first name and then say their name and something nice that happened to them recently. When facilitating this, describe and model the length of answer you’d like.
Tips:
keep it short – a sentence or two. (E.g. – My name is Burgert and yesterday an old friend from high school called me out of the blue.)
If there are more than 10 people, have people say their names and then get them into pairs and share with each other something nice that’s happen. Hear a few in the big group.
Origin: I learned this from Belina Raffy who learned it from Paul Z Jackson, President of the Applied Improvisation Network.