Yin Yang
General Description
Building confidence between team members is crucial to create a safe environment. For that, it is necessary to remove personal walls that stop members from being authentic. Usually, there exist perceptions or prejudgments that determine relationships, and the first ones should be eliminated to create deep and valuable relations. Only by doing that, each member will feel included and free to express their ideas.
With vulnerability and by expressing who each member is, a team, as a whole, will achieve amazing things.
In this activity, the team members will mention the happiest and the hardest moment they have experienced in their lives: the Yin Yang.
Strong relations are built by showing vulnerability.
Applicable for:
Inclusion Safety
Reflection
Trust Spiral
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30 - 60 min
4 - 10 people
Level: intermediate
Steps
Create groups of 4 to 10 members. If you have more people in a team, break the group down in two or more. Make sure that each member has a paper and a pen or pencil to draw.
Step 1
Each member will have 15 minutes to think about two (2) significant moments in their lives: the happiest and the hardest. They will have to draw or write representative words as an explanation of those moments.
Bonus:
- Each member should find a quiet place at home/office.
- The facilitator should prepare reflective music.
Step 2
Ask all the members to have their device camera turned on. Each member will show the drawing, and then a volunteer will start-off telling their story. The time frame will be for four minutes.
The other members should be muted and focused on what the other person is saying. When he or she finishes, the rest of the team should say 'thank you.'
To choose the next team member who will share their story, the person who just finished talking will ask all the participants to show their drawings and will select one of them.
Step 3
Final reflection: Ask the whole group the following question; it is voluntary participation:
- How did this activity make me feel?
- Final words to your team.