This high energy activity helps participants move from working independently to working together as a group. It can be used as both an energizer and experiential activity.

In this activity, groups are assigned a topic to debate and a side to argue for. By engaging in a structured debate, they will refine their critical thinking and presentation skills.

This activity provides a fun, simple, quick, and effective strategy to learn each other’s names by associating each other with a name alliteration.

It can be very challenging to learn names in a new group. This activity provides a fun, simple, quick, and effective strategy to learn each other’s names through alliterations and actions.

This activity is based on the “Prisoner’s Dilemma” and asks groups to make a difficult decision, exploring themes of trust, honesty, morality, and decision-making.

This activity works as an energizer, icebreaker, or quick problem-solving activity. Groups can race to beat their time in moving the hoop around or race against each other!

This activity asks group members to reflect on the things that they bring to a team and the things that they need from their teammates to work effectively together.

Groups will use creative thinking and problem-solving to physically touch all of the keys in numerical sequence as quickly as they can.

One at a time, each person gets to spend a few minutes answering questions about themselves so the group can learn more about one another.

Ask a check-in question before starting a session to help get a gauge on your group and help participants share how they’re feeling with each other before beginning a session.

Participants will collaborate to put information in an order that makes sense. They will make judgments and decisions about how to organize and interpret data.

Participants will be asked to collaborate while making judgments and decisions about how to organize information in an order that makes sense.

Participants can see what fun things they have in common with other group members.

Get to know each other by answering questions and contributing to a group mural. Groups can discuss shared interests and goals as well as develop team cohesion.

In this activity, participants will learn each other’s names while juggling different objects.

Participants will share information about themselves and learn about team members through a social and hands-on activity that will require teamwork and self awareness.

This popular improv game encourages group members to be creative, to respond quickly to change, and to support each other’s ideas and contributions positively.

Group members will explore what makes a billboard effective and use that knowledge to design their own billboards to advertise their group.

Work with a partner to create a full and complete picture.

This activity helps groups to recognize and acknowledge shared experiences/differences between individuals, such as hopes and fears, levels of diversity, privilege, and more.