Here’s a fun energetic warmup to get your group in a more creative mindset, in-person or online. Beware: there may be shouting!
How to do it
If you’re meeting in-person, it’s best to stand up and form a circle for this activity. The aim of this energizer is to build on each other’s ideas and get the blood pumping, by offering a challenge and then a solution.
Start the group off by asking a very broad question (e.g. “What do people really need these days?”). Feel free to go really loud and energetic with this one.
Someone else should then shout out an idea (e.g. “World peace!”). The rest of the group should then go nuts, jump up and down, and hoot and cheer for that idea, without any critique; in this activity, every idea is genius.
Building on the idea, you as the facilitator continue with a new question, framing that idea as the next challenge (e.g. “And how could we achieve world peace?”). Someone else should then shout out an idea for that challenge (e.g. “A free puppy for everyone!”), the rest of the team hoots and cheers, and so on!
Keep going for at least a few minutes, and/or until most people have had a couple of goes. The kookier the ideas are, the better (“Wooden spoons with our faces on them!”). Besides being a great energizer, it also builds an atmosphere of acceptance in the team, which will later help people share their ideas more easily.
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