Experiential Team Building resource

[Amanda Fenton]

From the email list February 2013....

Hi mates,

I have been asked at short notice to run an experiential team building exercise, that will take 2 hours 15 mins. The exercise will take place within a longer two day program for people who themselves run community leadership program's across Australia. There will be 20 or so of these program organisers.

I have the rope game, however I didn't think I could get that working over the two hour + time frame.

There was another one with tennis balls. Does anyone have instructions or another exercise that they would share?

With best wishes,

Jill

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The tennis ball one I've used is where you start with one ball being tossed around in the circle.  The host slowly introduces more and more balls, and then slowly begins to withdraw them (when passed to her or him) until the circle is again quiet.  Conversation that follows is simple -- what as the experience like; what did you notice; how did you feel; how is it like real life?

Cheers,

Bob

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Hi Bob,

thanks for that. I recall one where you set up a pattern and also introduce more balls.

The game I was thinking of was more of a team exercise and it was about design, however it doesn't have to be that- I would be excited about any useful, and fun experiential exercise that would work with team(s) and take that 2+ hr time,
best wishes

Jill

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Hi Jill

This one is really fun and folks learn a lot…. (see attached)

have fun

kindly

Toke

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2006 - Art of Hosting tennis balls at the Shire .....  (see photos attached)

Tim

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Time moves at such a pace these days.

I look back on times like these just seven years ago and notice how spacious they felt.  

The pace of my life and the paces of so many I know have been accelerating.

I know it is not sustainable.

Been re-upping my meditation practice and looking even for those odd times when I can call myself to stillness.

I've had a day off in Kyoto filled with pleasant moments like walking the dog with my mid-eighties host parents, then slurping noodles together, and then helping write some thank-you letters in English. Unexpectedly I wrote the attached as an attempt to begin to organize my thinking about what we're doing here.  It's felt in flow, outside some of the normal pressures I feel here.

Blessings friends,

Bob

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AH BOBsama

a deep bow for the art of hosting your self to fall more in love with practicing stillness and peace within….no matter what happens in our world…..

Missing being in Kyoto with you

all is well

http://www.wordsfrom-tokesheart.dk/words_from_Tokes_heart/Practicin...

Toke

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Dear Bob,

 

Thank you for your article and the wisdom therein. I so appreciate the simplicity with which you speak to these deep matters.

I resonate with so many of the ideas you share. Your clarity of seeing…

 

I particularly step into the section ‘What is transformative change like?”

 

You give words to the place I am transitioning into. And have had no words for- again thank you.

 

I have just left paid employment (doing Generating Transformative Change through Pacific Integral which has been transformative for me) and am seeking to work from a place of receptivity, intuition and flow, however I disconnect, and contract when I doubt- when I have an expectation that as a consultant I’ll have the answers.

 

At present I don’t know where the invitation will come from, and places where I had assumed invitation may not seek what I do. You remind me that invitation is crucial. Toke taught me that.

 

I think my next step is to get to the heart of what I’m doing- and to know what I know and what I don’t know. So I will be authentic.

 

And to connect with others in honest relationship.

 

I will also follow up an opportunity to present at a national conference held locally and make visible the pioneering work I left at the university.

 

Thank you for writing and gifting the paper,

 

Deep bow,

Jill