Inhalter
Zilsetzungen:
- explore cooperation as an alternative to conflict in group activities;
- explore the advantages and disadvantages of collective responsibility;
- to develop the ability and willingness to take responsibility, to develop the ability to act productively in a non-directive environment in conditions of uncertainty.
Bandgréisst: optimal — up to 20 people.
Ressourcen: net néideg.
Zäit: ongeféier 20 Minutten.
Course vum Spill
“Often we have to meet with people who, it seems, are just waiting to be led. Someone is obliged to organize and direct them, since people of this type are afraid to show their own initiative (and then be responsible for their decisions and actions).
There is another type — indefatigable leaders. They always know who should do what. Without their intervention and care, the world will surely perish!
It is clear that you and I belong either to the followers, or to the leaders, or to some kind of mixed — between one and the other type — group.
In the task that you will now try to complete, it will be difficult for both overt activists and extreme passivists, because no one will lead anyone. Absolutely! The whole point of the exercise is that when performing a particular task, each of the participants will be able to rely solely on their ingenuity, initiative, and their own strength. The success of each will be the key to common success.
So, from now on, everyone is responsible only for himself! We listen to the tasks and try to cope with them as best as possible. Any contact between the participants is prohibited: no conversations, no signs, no grabbing hands, no indignant hissing — nothing! We work in silence, the maximum is a glance towards partners: we learn to understand each other at a telepathic level!
— I ask the group to line up in a circle! Everyone hears the task, analyzes it and tries to decide what he personally has to do, so that in the end the group will quickly and accurately stand in a circle.
Very well! You noticed that some of them itched their hands, so much they wanted to control someone. And a large part of you stood in complete confusion, not knowing what to do and where to start. Let’s continue to practice personal responsibility. Line up please:
- in a column by height;
- two circles;
- Dräieck;
- a line in which all participants line up in height;
- a line in which all participants are arranged in accordance with the color of their hair: from the lightest on one edge to the darkest on the other;
- living sculpture «Star», «Medusa», «Turtle» …
Fäerdegstellung: game discussion.
Which one of you is a leader by nature?
— Was it easy to abandon the leadership style of behavior?
— What did you feel? Did the group’s apparent success in trying to organize itself reassure you? Now you rely more on your comrades, don’t you? Do not forget that each of you contributed to the overall victory!
— What were the feelings of people who are used to being led? Is it hard to suddenly be left without someone else’s assessments, advice, instructions?
How did you know if your actions were right or wrong? Did you enjoy taking responsibility for yourself and making decisions on your own?