I am running a course next week for 8 people. 5 of these people know each other really well already, and 3 are totally new to the group. Can anyone suggest a good icebreaker which would help assimilate the new people to the group without boring the "old hands"? Thanks
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Ice breakers
Icebreakers are not always designed to bring strangers together. Sometime you can use them to get people more comfortable with each over a task or shared experience and then go from there.
Here are a collection of Ice Breakers you can use for your training needs.
Hope this helps.
Ehsan Honary
Ice-breakers & energisers
Funnily enough…. We’ve got a great compilation of ice-breakers & energisers on site today here!
It contains links to lots of other sources of ice-breakers & energisers as well.
Warm wishes
Susie Finch
Editor, features
Bingo ice breaker
I have a simple and highly effective Bingo game you are welcome to use, just email me on Colette@yourlearningcurve.co.uk and I will be happy to send it to you.
online icebreakers?
Have you thought about online icebreakers. A friend at NCSL (@kevinmulryne) put out a call for online icebreakers and he is collating them. You can view the first 5 at:
http://docs.google.com/present/view?skipauth=true&id=dck9fjtm_6hp8b6ccc
we uploaded one of our to http://blog.realprojects.co.uk/2009/07/online-icebreakers/
Something different!
Ice Breakers
If the start of the session is interesting, thought provoking and involves everyone (which it should anyway) there isn’t a need for ice breakers.
If I attend an event where the trainer needs to have a game before we start I tend to think they don’t really know what they are doing!
201 Ice breakers
Hello
I have used following book over the years:
“2001 Icebreakers” by Edie west
Best
Felice