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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