Triangles

Form a bond
Maintain the bond
Move
Energize
Meet
Play

Goals:

Learn each other's first name and pronoun. Learn to perceive the group spatially.

Participants:

7 à 15, dès 16

Duration:

30'

Required equipment:

Soft clothing, water.

Space requierment:

Any area in which the group can run.

Requirements:

Ideally, the facilitator has already experienced the protocol before leading it. If not, specify that she discovers it at the same time as the participants.

Preparation

A facilitator leads the group throughout the protocol, reading and then carrying out each point, one after the other.

Process

Time 1:

Move randomly.
Feel the movement of your body.
Feel your relationship to others (distance, movement).
Feel your relationship to the area.
Change routes, avoid walking in circles, change rhythm, direction...

Time 2 :

As you walk, silently pick out one person in the group without pointing, keeping him or her constantly, but discreetly, in your field of vision.

Time 3:

While walking, silently choose a second person from the group.
Keep both chosen people in your field of vision, adjusting your trajectory accordingly.

Time 4:

Move in such a way as to create a permanent equilateral triangle between yourself and the two people you have chosen.
Normally, once equilibrium has been achieved and all the triangles formed, the group comes to a standstill.

Time 5:

Stretch out your arms in the direction of the two people with whom a triangle has been formed.
Lower your arms after a moment.

Time 6:

The facilitator asks for the first names and pronouns, if any, of the two people she is referring to.
The facilitator repeats the first names and pronouns of her triangle.
She then passes the floor to one of the two people named, who does the same for the two people with whom she was triangulating.

Repeat the process until the entire group has been named.

If the two named people have already triangulated, ask those who haven't yet named their two people to speak up.

Notes

The game has been played with a group of 35 people, outside, in an urban environment. It was acoustically complicated and a bit time-consuming. We think that 25 participants may be the limit.

References

Thanks to Henrique Amoedo for bringing this tool to a workshop at HEAD_Geneva, 2018