Trainers’ Toolkit – 60 seconds

	Exercise nr 17: 60 seconds
Duration	10-15 min
Type of activity	Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive
The goal of the exercise	It is an effortless yet powerful experience raising awareness of our diversity and grounding, calming, getting into deeper contact with ourselves. The goal is to see how relative the sense of time is, see yourself and your perception of time in a group. And to practise group empathy and a deeper understanding of our diversities.
Group size	1-100+ participants
Hashtags	#counting #timeperception #groupempathy #diversity #timemanagement
Materials and tools necessary for the activities	No additional materials are needed.
Exercise agenda	The exercise task is to count down 1 minute (60 sec) in your mind. Ask participants to sit down comfortably in front of their cameras. On the instructor’s signal, each person closes their eyes and starts counting 60 seconds in their mind. The aim is to feel the passing of time and decide that 1 minute has just passed.​​ When a person decides a minute has passed, they should open their eyes. Trainer breaks the silence when the last person in the group opens their eyes The instructor observes the group and writes down who opened their eyes at what time mark. When all the participants have opened their eyes, the trainer sums up the experience: they say who opened their eyes first – for whom the one minute was the shortest, and who was last – for whom the one minute was the longest. Perhaps it is worth encouraging a short conversation between everyone and asking questions: – When a minute seems long, and when does it seem short? – How often and when do participants look at their watches?  The exercise deals with the subjectivity of experienced time. It shows simply and powerfully the scale of the sense of time. Some people are likely to open their eyes after only 30 seconds. Others may open their eyes even after 2.5 minutes, thinking that only 1 minute has passed.
Possible modifications	The exercise can also be used as a good closure for the meeting. You can include in the meditation to think of the participants in this meeting and appreciate them.
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