2021.08.21.
 | 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 the session will address. |
| Group size | 1- many participants |
| Hashtags | #groundingexercise #embodiedexercise #bodyintelligence #resilience |
| Materials and tools necessary for the activities | Microphone and video camera that captures the whole body from head to toe. The trainer may choose to share a screen and play the linked YouTube clip. |
| Exercise agenda | The trainer moves away from the camera where there is some space and checks if the camera can capture his/her full body from head to toe. He also encourages the participant(s) to do the same in front of their own screen and camera. (If the embodied exercise might feel intimidating to some participants the trainer may suggest turning off the camera for the exercise.) Instructions:Introduction: „Sometimes we all have those moments when we feel overwhelmed or frozen in our mind or in our body. We feel stuck but with practice we can mobilize our energies at different levels and learn to melt the tension away.” Embodied exercise demonstrated and explained: „Stand up with a little space around you and freeze all your body parts from head to toe and imagine that you are freezing: close your eyes and mouth, tuck your chin, cross your arms and lift up your shoulders. Tighten as many muscles in your body as you can: belly tight, legs and feet are frozen too. Your body has become an ice statue. Stay still. Now little by little begin to melt: let your face soften, open slightly your eyes, just a little your mouth. Let your shoulders and arms melt, bend and let your hands go down all the way to the floor. Let yourself be a puddle on the floor melted all the way. Melt, melt, melt and relax.” Wrap up: „Next time if you feel frozen try to melt it away.” The trainer may discuss with the participants what they experienced and what thoughts may have emerged during this exercise. |
| Possible modifications | The trainer can also share the screen and use the corresponding Youtube video (or different videos for similar grounding and embodied exercises). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTzXFPh6CPI The trainer may also compile 2 sets of music to play while demonstrating the exercise: a „freezing music” and a more relaxed „ melting music” |
| Credits | Created by YES YOU CAN Coaching & Training Kft. for TRENDSS – Transnational Roadmap for Educators in Digital Soft Skills (https://trendss.eu/)Funded by the Erasmus+Programme of the European Union |
photo and video credit: GoNoodle Inc.
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