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100 Ways To Energise Groups:: Games To Use in Workshops, Meetings and The Community
100 Ways To Energise Groups:: Games To Use in Workshops, Meetings and The Community
1 0 0 w a y s t o e n e rg i s e g ro u p s
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Howdy Howdy
2. Juggling ball game
3. Names and adjectives
4. Three truths and a lie
5. Connecting eyes
6. Match the cards
7. Space on my right
8. What we have in common
9. Who is the leader?
10. Who are you?
11. What kind of animal?
12. Killer wink
13. The sun shines on...
14. COCONUT
15. Body writing
16. Names in the air
17. Family members
18. Who am I?
19. As and Bs
20. Group statues
21. Move to the spot
22. Banana game
23. Taxi rides
24. Fruit salad
25. Prrr and Pukutu
26. Dancing on paper
27. Tides in/tides out
28. Delhi buses
29. Rabbits
30. Port/starboard
31. Im going on a trip
32. Find someone wearing...
33. Touch something blue
34. Simon says
35. What has changed?
36. Birthday graph
37. Body tig
38. Five islands
39. The animal game
40. Mime a lie
41. Bring me
42. The king is dead
43. Locomotion
44. Paper and straws
45. Dont answer
46. Tug of war
47. Pass the parcel
48. Fox and rabbit
49. The longest line
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Robots
King of the Jungle
Pass the energy
Bottle game
How do you like your neighbour?
Dragons tail
Group massage
Pass the person
Blindfold pairs
I like you because...
Heads to tummies
Ball under chins
Knees up
Get up, sit down!
Knots
Coin game
Countdown
Fizz buzz
Group balance
Leading and guiding
Clap exchange
People to people
Count to Seven
Football cheering
An orchestra without instruments
Hands slapping
Pass the action
Clap and point
Rainstorm
Statue stop
Orchestra
Stand, sit and sing
Passing the rhythm
Messenger
Drawing game
Mirror image
Hokey Cokey
Muddling messages
Talking object
Samson and Delilah
Yes/No game
The E game
Sagidi sagidi sapopo
What are we doing?
What is the adverb?
Shopping list
What am I feeling?
O Kabita!
Presenting gifts
Writing on backs
Reflecting on the day
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AcknowledgEments
Introduction
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance) is
an international non-governmental organisation that
supports communities in developing countries to
make a significant contribution to HIV prevention,
AIDS care and support to children affected by the
epidemic. Since its establishment in 1993, the
Alliance has provided financial and technical support
to NGOs and CBOs from more than 40 countries.
In addition, the Alliance promotes good practice
in community responses to HIV/AIDS more broadly
through evaluation, operations research, the
development of training materials and tools, as
well as policy and advocacy activities.
100 Ways to Energise Groups: Games to Use
in Workshops, Meetings and the Community
is one of a series of resources that the Alliance is
developing to encourage participation in practice.
It is a compilation of energisers, icebreakers and
games that can be used by anyone working with
groups of people, whether in a workshop, meeting
or community setting.
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Names and
adjectives
Participants think of an
adjective to describe how they
are feeling or how they are.
The adjective must start
with the same letter as
Howdy Howdy
Connecting eyes
The facilitator chooses a number of wellknown phrases, and writes half of each
phrase on a piece of paper or card. For
example, they write Happy on one piece of
paper and Birthday on another. (The
number of pieces of paper should match the
number of participants in the group.) The
folded pieces of paper
are put into a hat.
Each participant
takes a piece of
paper from the hat
and tries to find
the member of the
group with the
matching half of
the phrase.
Space on my right
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Killer wink
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COCONUT
Body writing
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Family members
Who am I?
as and bs
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Group statues
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Taxi rides
Banana game
Fruit salad
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Dancing on paper
Delhi buses
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Rabbits
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Port/starboard
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Im going on a trip
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Simon says
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Birthday graph
Body tig
Mime a lie
Five islands
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Bring me
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Locomotion
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Tug of war
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Dont answer
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Robots
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Bottle game
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How do you
like your neighbour?
Dragons tail
Group massage
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Blindfold pairs
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Knees up
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Heads to tummies
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Knots
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Participants stand
in a circle and join
hands. Keeping their
hands joined, they
move in any way that
they want, twisting and
turning and creating a
knot. They must then unravel this knot,
without letting go of one anothers hands.
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Fizz buzz
Countdown
Coin game
Group balance
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Clap exchange
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People to people
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Count to Seven
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Football cheering
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Hands slapping
An orchestra without
instruments
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Rainstorm
Statue stop
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Orchestra
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Messenger
Drawing game
Mirror image
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Hokey Cokey
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Muddling messages
Talking object
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Yes/No game
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The E game
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Shopping list
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What am I feeling?
O Kabita!
Everyone in turn
has to say O
Kabita! (or another
name) in as many
different ways as
possible, for
example with
anger, with fear, with
laughter, and so on.
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Presenting
gifts
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Writing on backs
Reflecting on
the day
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