Trainers’ Toolkit – Self Portrait

	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 paper and a pen, marker or pencil.
Exercise agenda	Ask the participants to take a sheet of paper and a pen or a pencil. Then ask them to put a paper on their faces and take the pen. While keeping the sheet of paper on their faces ask them to draw the outline of their faces. Tell them not to forget about their eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth and hair. Encourage the participants to share their work with the group and, depending on the purpose of the exercise: At the beginning of the meeting as a warm-up: Describe this person, whom you drew. Who is he/her? How does this person feel? What is he/she thinking? As Making Connection and increasing involvement: What does he/she expect from this meeting/ training? In the middle (introduction to the next part of the meeting)As a check-in: Gives you the opportunity to distance yourself, for example: How does this person feel so far? Or how does he/she feel at this moment? In the end, you can ask participants for a group picture while they present their self-portraits. As the evaluation/reflection: What did the person learn today? Was he/she satisfied with the workshop/training? What will he/she take away from this experience?
Possible modifications	We recommend this as a warm-up for the beginning of the training but you can also use it for the end of your meeting as a summary or meeting/job satisfaction survey at the end of the meeting.
Credits	Compiled by Fundacja Culture Shock for TRENDSS – Transnational Roadmap for Educators in Digital Soft Skills (https://trendss.eu/)Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Co-founded by the Erasmus+Programme of the European Union