Trainers’ Toolkit – Drag and drop story

	Exercise nr 31:  Drag and drop story
Duration	15-20 min
Type of activity	Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive
The goal of the exercise	The aim is to boost creativity and integrate participants using the storytelling method.
Group size	5-15
Hashtags	#storytelling #teambuilding #empowerment
Materials and tools necessary for the activities	No other materials needed. The video app must be able to move the video screens of participants in gallery view mode (f.e. ZOOM).
Exercise agenda	This exercise boosts the ingenuity and spontaneity of the participants, integrates them and empowers them to be creators.  First, ask participants to create a common order of all the participants appearing on the screens. Explain they can drag and drop each person’s video screen and move it in the desired order. You can rehearse it by starting a gesture, f.e. gesture of hand movement that others will follow in the previously done order. You can decide if you follow horizontal or vertical lines or go down the serpentine. Invite participants to create and tell a story together. Tell participants to sit comfortably, take a deep breath and relax. Each person will contribute to the story by adding one sentence to what has been said, adding important details, or pushing the story forward. The rule is they cannot contradict what has been said so far and make magical plot twists. Ask them to be good listeners – to give their full attention to what is being said and to allow silence as it might unfold to a continuing story. Depending on the group size, you can make from one up to three rounds. When the last round ends, remind that this is a final closure so participants can complete their story.  In the end, ask participants how they feel about this experience or what they have discovered in the chatbox.
Possible modifications	Depending on the workshop’s topic, the story may refer to participants’ field of work or area of interest. Participants can write their sentences in the chatbox.If the participants are unable to follow the instructions about the picture order, you can agree on an order, write it down and share the screen with the participants to follow it in that way.
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 4.0Co-funded by the Erasmus+Programme of the European Union