Exercise
Calling out names
Format:
Group exercise, Icebreaker
Time:
15min
Required materials:
None
Summary:
This is a fun, upbeat icebreaker to shift group energy and build connections that involves shouting out the name of the person next to you in a circle.
Key explanation points:
- Ask participants to stand in a circle, look to their left, and ask that person their name.
- Explain that the name of the person on your left is the name you will use in the exercise.
- Next, ask everyone to gently bend over and clap quietly, repeating that one person’s name to the left.
- Slowly, ask everyone to lift their bodies up, and to make their clapping and voice louder and louder until they are shouting out the person’s name next to them.
Facilitation notes:
Facilitators should take the group through the exercise once, so that everyone understands, then repeat it once, or as many times as the group wishes.
Alternative option:
- Facilitators could have one participant stand in the middle in turn, and have the group call out their name as described above. This would take longer than 15 minutes.
- Participants could call out the name of the person to their left in the first round, then switch to the person to their right in the second round.
