Participants learn about each other and their goals for the community.
Purpose
To encourage active listening. To build a sense of "team."
Group size: 12 to 36 participants.
Time Needed: 20 - 30 minutes
Directions
- Ask your participants to select a partner with whom they are not well acquainted.
- One partner introduces him/herself, telling important facts about him/herself to the other partner, including his/her role in the community and his/her goals or dreams for the community (2 minutes).
- The listener repeats the information back to the teller (1 minute).
- The teller corrects the listener if necessary (30 seconds).
- Switch roles and repeat Steps 2 through 4.
- Regroup two pairs of participants to create groups of 4.
- Each partner should give a 1-minute introduction of the other to the 2 new listeners.
- Scramble all participants, pairing each with someone from a different group of 4.
- Repeat Steps 2 to 8 until all participants have heard or given introductions of the others.
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