This is a fun and easy improv-style warmup to help everybody get more creative by building on a shared story
How to do it
This warmup is all about telling a story to each other, person by person, line by line. It’s best if it doesn’t apply directly to the topic of your meeting or workshop, as that can take the ease and fun out of it a bit. And like many warmups, it’s great to start things off yourself, to show everybody how to do it.
Start off by saying “Remember when...” and continue with the beginning of a (fake) shared memory. For example:“Remember when...we all got lost in the Himalayas?”. The next person continues the story by building on the memory with “Yes! and then...” (e.g. “Yes! And then we dug ourselves a huge ice cave?”).
Keep going around the group, adding a line to the shared memory, until everyone has had a turn.
This is a great way to help people get more creative, as it forces them to think in stories, and to develop an ”˜If that is true, what else can be true?’ mindset.
Variations
If you are meeting online, make sure everybody has their video cameras on (if possible), and let your group know to pass to whoever they want to, by calling them by name.
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