Trainers’ Toolkit

Exercise nr 5: Emotional jukebox Duration 10-15 min Type of activity Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive The goal of the exercise A quick and easy way to find out how a group is doing without getting into personal details. Group size  2 – 100+ participants Hashtags #engagement #warmup #music #movement #dance Materials and

Exercise nr 7: Emotional weather report Duration 5-10 min Type of activity Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive Goal of the exercise This grounding and icebreaking exercise can create a safe space and help establish trust in a group (or in 1:1 setting). Participants by sharing their current feelings using weather metaphors can build

Melting ice statue Duration 5 min Type of activity Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive Goal of the exercise This grounding exercise helps participants relax and relieve stress that they may experience during their everyday challenges in turbulent times. After the exercise participants can better focus on the particular tasks that the rest of

Exercise nr 4:  Where are we now? Duration 10 min Type of activity Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive The goal of the exercise Checking participants’ location can be both integrating for the group and valuable to the coach, Getting to know each other, breaking the ice, warmup  Group size  No limits Hashtags #engagement

Exercise nr 3: Window view Duration 15 – 20 min Type of activity Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive The goal of the exercise Getting to know each other, breaking the ice  Group size  10-15 participants Hashtags #warm-up #energizer #visual Apps Padlet Materials  Before the meeting, ask participants to have their smartphones nearby. Exercise

Exercise nr 2: Collage of associations Duration 10-15 min Type of activity Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive Goal of the exercise Checking participants’ knowledge, beliefs and perceptions; first, basic thoughts before you go deeper into the subject of your meeting. Group size  10-15 participants Hashtags #engagement #collage #visual #webApp Apps Prepare a Padlet

Exercise nr 1: Self-portrait Duration 10-15 min Type of activity Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive The goal of the exercise Getting to know each otherGroup feeling Group size  10-15 participants Hashtags #warm-up #energizer #drawing #visual Apps n/a Materials  Before the meeting make sure that each participant will have prepared an A4 sheet of