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1. Web of Connectedness

   Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

   During this discussion activity, participants pass around a ball of yarn, twine, or string every time a person speaks. By the end of the activity, there will a web to physically demonstrate the...

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2. Walk Apart, Walk Together

   Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

   In this activity, participants highlight both the similarities they share and the differences between them. 

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3. Voices from the Past (Name Tags)

   Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

   This activity challenges participants to reflect on themselves and their culture while learning more about each other. Participants are provided with a handout, and they write their name, a...

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4. Thumb Wars

   Collections | 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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5. Surprising Sentence

   Collections | 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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6. Speed Friending

   Collections | 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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7. Snowball

   Collections | 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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8. Ritual

   Collections | 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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9. Pick-a-Postcard

   Collections | 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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10. Personal Identity Wheel, Social Identity Wheel, and Spectrum Activity

    Collections | 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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11. One Will Get You Ten

    Collections | 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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12. Newton

    Collections | 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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13. Miniature Metaphors

    Collections | 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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14. Meet the Trainer

    Collections | 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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15. Mapping My Cultural Values

    Collections | 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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16. Magic Spelling

    Collections | 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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17. Lemons

    Collections | 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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18. Intercultural People Bingo

    Collections | 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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19. Icebreaker Grab Bag

    Collections | 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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20. I Am Poems

    Collections | 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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21. I Am From Poems

    Collections | 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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22. Human Values Continuum

    Collections | 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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23. Five Nosy Questions

    Collections | 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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24. Five Minute Poem, The

    Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    Participants first write a short poem about where they're from and then share either with the entire group or with a partner or small group. 

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25. Familiar and Unfamiliar

    Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This activity challenges participants to expand their curiosity about unfamiliar cultural experiences. Using a deck of picture cards, they will compare their familiar and unfamiliar...

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26. Draw a House

    Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    During this activity, participants will be asked to draw a floor plan of a house based on their own experiences and understandings of how houses are typically arranged. They will then compare their...

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27. Different Similarities

    Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    In this activity, participants discover similarities between one another, discuss how we perceive difference, and analyze how we form groups and how our perceptions play into group-formation.

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28. Conversation Starters: 200 questions to get to know someone

    Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    These questions enable participants to increase their level of curiosity about others and develop active listening skills. 

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29. Conversation Starters

    Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This assortment of buttons serve as conversation starters and help participants employ different roles and perspectives in a group. 

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30. Complimentary Round Table

    Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    After passing around an apple and dropping it while saying something mean about it, participants will then pass around a different apple and everyone in the group will compliment the person holding...

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31. Chain of Diversity

    Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    In this activity, participants identify the similarities and differences across the group, as well as what makes each individual unique. 

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32. Birds of a Feather

    Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This Thiagi activity enables participants to understand the benefits of forming diverse groups rather than flocking to individuals who are similar to them. 

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33. Big Wind Blows, The

    Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This icebreaker activity helps participants become more comfortable with taking risks and sharing about themselves. 

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34. Beach Ball Ice Breaker

    Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    For this activity, the facilitator writes icebreaker questions on a beach ball. Participants throw the ball to each other and answer the question under their right thumb. 

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35. Artful Closer

    Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This Thiagi activity can be used as an icebreaker to learn more about the common personal experiences they share. 

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36. 6 Differences

    Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    In this activity, participants mingle with others in the room and find a partner who is different from them in at least six ways (beyond physical appearance). 

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37. 25 Questions

    Collections | 22 Feb 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    In this activity, participants pair up and ask each other 25 questions that develop deeper connections through the sharing of life experiences and intellectual/emotional positions. 

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38. Mini Metaphors

    Collections | 03 Nov 2020 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    This is one of my favorite ice-breaker activities, and it can also be used as a debriefing/reflection tool. It is just a collection of little charms and miniature objects, but in my experience...

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39. Icebreakers that Teach: The Name Game and Voices from the Past

    Collections | 03 Jul 2020 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    If you were to click on the Discover top menu and choose Tags, you could search for a term such as Icebreaker. Forty-three tools come up in that search. We think of these tools as...

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40. Conversation Starters

    Collections | 06 Feb 2020 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This assortment of buttons depicting a variety of images and slogans are perfect for getting a group interacting. They make for great icebreaking conversations at the start of a program, for...

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41. Guidance for students as they get to know one another

    Collections | 10 Oct 2019 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    This set of questions might be a good way for pairs or small groups to get to know each other in a COIL/international virtual education experience. I would encourage the use of synchronous meeting...

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42. The Name Game - A great icebreaker for COIL

    Collections | 07 Oct 2019 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    This is another way for students in a COIL experience to get to know each other with an added cultural layer to the introductions. You'll need to modify it for a virtual setting. I think it...

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43. Voices from the Past - Great icebreaker for COIL that digs deep into cultural knowledge

    Collections | 07 Oct 2019 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    I think this icebreaker is a great way to move beyond students in each group learning each others' names to a deep exploration of cultural values expressed in sayings heard during...

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44. Hello in Different Languages

    Collections | 29 Apr 2019 | Posted by Annette Benson

    Hello in Different Languages, an activity by J. Niell, teaches participants about different languages and exposure to language. 

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45. Air Handshake Mingle and No Touch Greetings

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/830

46. Artful Closer

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/99

47. Beach Ball Buzz

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/256

48. Big Wind Blows, The

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/501

49. Birds of a Feather

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/103

50. Chain of Diversity

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/382

51. Complimentary Round Table

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/137

52. Computer Keyboard Keys

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/836

53. Conversation Starters

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/143

54. Conversation Starters: 200 questions to get to know someone

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/479

55. Core Cultural Values and Culture Mapping

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/363

56. Different Similarities

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/95

57. Draw a House

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/672

58. Familiar and Unfamiliar

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/470

59. Five Minute Poem, The

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/571

60. Five Nosy Questions

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/497

61. Hand Shake Mingle

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/771

62. Human Values Continuum

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/37

63. I Am From Poems

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/210

64. I Am Poems

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/132

65. Icebreaker Grab Bag

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/572

66. Intercultural People Bingo

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/530

67. Lemons

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/44

68. Magic Spelling

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/351

69. Meet the Trainer

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/220

70. Miniature Metaphors

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/141

71. Name Roulette

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/826

72. Newton

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/221

73. One Will Get You Ten

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/114

74. Peek-a-Who Names Review

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/827

75. Personal and Social Identity Wheel, Identity Circles, Beads, and Molecule, The Paseo (Circles of Identity), Circles of My Multicultural Self

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/574

76. Pick-a-Postcard

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/142

77. Ritual

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/226

78. Six Differences

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/107

79. Snowball

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/463

80. Spectrum Activity, The, Questions of Identity

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/576

81. Speed Friending

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/407

82. Surprising Sentence

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/117

83. Team Tally

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/824

84. Thumb Wars

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/133

85. Twenty-Five Questions

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/1

86. Voices from the Past (Name Tags)

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/77

87. Walk Apart, Walk Together

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/381

88. Web of Connectedness

    https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/577