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The Art of Icebreakers
Opportunities to Learn,Laugh and Lead
“Icebreakers are tools that enable the group leader to foster interaction, stimulate creative thinking,challenge basic assumptions, illustrate new concepts, and introduce specific material.”
The Encyclopedia of Icebreakers
PURPOSE OF ICEBREAKERS
“All icebreakers are not the same.”
There are many names for Icebreakers: warm-ups, de-inhibitizers, tension reducers,Brain teasers,
getting acquainted activities, feedback/disclosure loops , energizers and games.
The names are not important, understanding what icebreakers can do is important.
Icebreakers can be used socially, educationally and topically.
Socially:
• To establish non-threatening introductory contacts
• To increase participants familiarity with one another
• To increase a group member’s comfort level • To allow others to know us as we see ourselves
• To increase energy when the group seems flat
• To warm up group members
Educationally:
•To reduce learning overload
• To stimulate,challenge, and motivate participants
• To heighten the creative resources of the group
• To start a session, or “prime” a group after a break
• To shift the focus of study
• To increase competence and or develop awareness
Topically:
• To help the group think about the subject of the meeting
• To connect what the group already knows to the new information being presented
• To nudge the thought process onto a different track
• To serve as introductory experience for problem solving, competition, team building or consensus seeking
• To introduce a concept or idea
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