Identity Crisis

This interactive identity game creates an atmosphere of laughter and connection as participants temporarily adopt new identities. Identity Crisis provides a funny, engaging structure for sharing personal facts while reducing social anxiety in new groups. Perfect for conferences, team-building events and classroom settings seeking a hilarious get-to-know-you activity. The identity-swapping format encourages active listening and helps participants remember details about others.

Identity Crisis – Interactive Identity Game

1. Distribute a set of blank index cards to your group, one per person.
2. Ask everyone to write their first name on a card, in large letters.
3. Pose three questions and invite everyone to consider their responses, eg favourite movie, ideal holiday location, and what they would do if they won the lottery.
4. Over the course of the next few minutes, invite everyone to have a short conversation with a partner introducing themselves, especially sharing these three bits of information.
5. After this mutual exchange, instruct everyone to swap (name) cards and identities, ie each person assumes the identity of their partner, including the three bits of information they just learned about their partner.
6. Each person then seeks a new partner and introduces themselves using their new identity.
7. Continue playing for 10 or more minutes, inviting each person to complete as many exchanges (and swaps of identity) as possible.
8. To conclude, form a circle, and invite each person to introduce the person named on the card they are holding to the group.