Trainers’ Toolkit – Dancing hands

	Exercise nr 45: Dancing hands
Duration	10 – 12 min
Type of activity	Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive
The goal of the exercise	Stimulation of body awareness and relaxation of the body.
Group size	3-18 participants
Hashtags	#movement #focus
Apps	Zoom, Microsoft teams, Google Hangouts or other
Materials	No other materials needed
Exercise agenda	This simple movement exercise will warm up your workshop participants a bit and stimulate their imagination and creativity. Thanks to the activity, participants will focus on their bodies and release the tension accumulated while sitting in front of the screen. Ask participants to step away from their computer screens for a moment while remaining visible. They can sit or stand. Invite each person to focus their attention on their hands. Ask everybody to put their hands forward and look at their hands – when their palms are facing away, and towards their body. Next, ask everyone to close their hands into fists and then gently and slowly open them. Encourage the participants to do a short “hand dance”. Keep the whole body relaxed and free. The hands can move in any direction, fast or slow, both in the same direction and in different directions. Then ask everyone to try to bring their hands close to the computer camera and do a short hand dance so that it is visible in the application window in which you are working.
Possible modifications	If all participants agree, you can record an excerpt of this dance and send it to everyone after the workshop.
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-funded by the Erasmus+Programme of the European Union