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Whale Watch

Extremely fun & dynamic balancing group initiative.

  • Simple set-up
  • Promotes critical thinking
  • Inspires collaboration
  • Sharpens reflexes & focus
  • Multiple variations

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. In advance, assess your group’s physical abilities and spotting skills as required for this exercise.
  2. Objective: Challenge your group to use their weight to balance the platform so that the ends do not touch the ground for a period of ten seconds.
  3. If the platform touches the ground, invite your group to start over.
  4. All participants start on the platform.
  5. Hands are not permitted to make contact with the platform at any time.
  6. When ready, allow up to 15 minutes to complete the task (or other time as will challenge your group.)
  7. Process your group’s experience at the conclusion of the task.

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  1. David Piang-Nee

    Really brilliant activity when done properly is so rich in how it can be debriefed. Love the conversations that can be opened up there.

    Concepts of how individuals in communities always have an effect on the whole group whether they believe it or not by just being there. Concepts of belonging and finding ones space, purpose or value.

    Looking at how one chooses to contribute (actually moving from one end to the other or, just tiny shifts or not contribute (sitting in one spot on the whale watch and not moving) still has an effect. How the tiniest of actions can have great effects or ramifications on the whole.

    By watching and listening to the conversations being had as the group figures this out opens up the conversations and concepts so much when you go back to reflect on it. So very powerful.

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