Laurie Swigart
To You but from Who?
Objective
For group members to affirm one another in an indirect, fun manner.
Group Size
4 to 15 participants is ideal
Materials
1 envelope per person
Paper
Pens or pencils
Description
Give each person an envelope, pen or pencil, and several small slips of paper. Ask everyone
to put their name on an envelope and then pass their envelope to the person sitting next to them.
Once you receive your neighbor’s envelope, you write down an attribute that you admire
about that person on a slip of paper. Add your name and then place the paper in the envelope. Continue passing the envelopes around until everyone has written down a comment for everyone else in the group.
Once all of the envelopes are full, they should be passed to the leader. The leader then selects one of the envelopes and selects a comment to read out loud to that person, without reading the name of the person who wrote it. The person whom the comment was written about will then try to guess who wrote the comment, and if they guess correctly, they receive a point. The object is to be the one with the most points in the end.
Go around the circle reading one comment from each envelope before starting over with the
first person. Continue in this manner until all the comments are read from each person’s
envelope. After the game is finished, each person may collect their own envelope and keep it as a reminder of all their good qualities.
Discussion Prompts
1. How do you feel after hearing all those positive things about yourself?
2. Do you often hear positive things from others? How does this affect you? How does it affect the group?
3. Will you keep this envelope? Why or why not?
4. Why is it important for group members to affirm one another?
Variation
After everyone has written attributes down and filled the envelopes, redistribute the envelopes among the group members, so that each person takes turns reading a comment from the envelope that they have. This is simply a way to get everyone more involved in the process.
Recent Posts
See AllObjective Students will demonstrate an ability to stand comfortably in front of an audience by participating in group warm-up activities,...
How do people create illusion out of harsh reality? You have chosen a tragic event. You have a list of details and individuals. You are...
Students build Facebook profiles for their characters using information from the text to round out the basic profile, and then update and...
Commentaires