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Five Nosy Questions
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
This activity challenges participants to build empathy and a sense of team identity by listening and sharing. They will ask and answer some questions that help them better understand each other as...
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Human Values Continuum
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
This activity challenges participants to recognize and analyze their reactions to a variety of cultural values. Participants will move to various locations around the room based on their opinions...
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I Am From Poems
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
In this activity, participants write short poems where each line begins with “I am from,” which allows them to describe their heritage using the details and memories most important to...
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I Am Poems
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
In this activity, participants write short poems where each line begins with “I Am,” which will allow them to describe what’s most important to the formation of their identities.
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Icebreaker Grab Bag
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
University of Michigan LSA Inclusive Teaching Initiative offers a variety of icebreakers that can be used to build community in a classroom setting.
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Intercultural People Bingo
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
This activity enables participants to share information about themselves, learn about others in the group, and actively move around the room and engage with others. It's a classic icebreaker...
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Lemons
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
This activity challenges participants to interrogate stereotypes and recognize how individuals are unique. Each participant will be given a lemon and asked to closely examine it and note its unique...
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Magic Spelling
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
The facilitator will perform a mathematical card trick and then encourage participants to dig beneath the surface of the trick through asking questions. Then, participants will connect their...
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Mapping My Cultural Values
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
This activity can be used as a discussion starter between two participants, where they use their cultural value maps to identify the similarities and differences between their cultures.
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Meet the Trainer
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
In this activity, participants assess how a person's personal appearance and culture influence our assumptions or biases.
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Miniature Metaphors
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
In this activity, participants reflect on goal-setting, create group norm agreements, learn to resolve conflict in effective ways, and appreciate the individual strengths and positive attributes of...
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Newton
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
In this activity, participants practice negotiating a win-win solution while learning how to manage conflict and competition.
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One Will Get You Ten
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
For this activity, participants generate and share ideas for solving a specific problem or exploring a topic.
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Personal Identity Wheel, Social Identity Wheel, and Spectrum Activity
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
Personal Identity Wheel challenges participants to reflect on their identities beyond social groups and get to know others in the group. They brainstorm words that describe their personal...
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Pick-a-Postcard
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
Participants use this activity to develop goal-setting skills, resolve conflict or establish group norms, and reflect using metaphor and figurative language.
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Ritual
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
In this activity, participants experience and discuss feelings of inclusion and exclusion and practice watching and assessing the behavior of others.
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Snowball
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
Through this activity, participants develop greater awareness of others' backgrounds and learn to describe their own background in an inclusive manner.
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Speed Friending
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
Much like the well-known concept of speed dating, participants will move around the room asking each other questions to get to know each other.
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Surprising Sentence
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
In this activity, participants practice fostering openness as part of a team, develop comfort with ambiguity, implement a process-driven rather than product-driven collaboration, and engage...
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Thumb Wars
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22 Feb 2021 |
Posted by Annette Benson
This activity enables participants to understand the differences between individualist and collectivist cultures and identify which cultural behaviors align with this cultural value dimension.
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