My icebreaker was WAY back on August 28th. I found it on the internet and it was called
“Shared Drawing.” It works best with
groups of 10-20 students/clients.
Each participant gets a partner. Then each pair of students gets out one piece
of blank paper and one pen or pencil.
One member of the team should draw a line horizontally across the paper,
about two inches above the bottom edge of the paper. In the big space that’s left, one of the team
should draw a large oval in the center of the paper.
The leader will explain that each team will draw a
face. The instructions are that one team
member will take the pen and make only one line or mark on the paper, and then
pass the pen on to the other team member.
There must be no talking, no communicating, no laughing.
After the team completes drawing a face, they are then
instructed to create a caption by writing only one letter and then passing the
pen to the other team member.
When the captions are written, the leader calls a halt. With some deliberate sense of ceremony, the
leader should collect the drawings and lay them out to have an “art” show, so
that everyone can look at all the drawings and have a good hearty laugh, which
will have been building up. The leader
should explain that these drawings always turn out rather insane-looking. The captions often make no sense at all. Let the group know that this was exactly what
was supposed to happen. A discussion
should follow about how it felt to create something without controlling the
process.
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