Trainers’ Toolkit – Energy factory

	Exercise nr 47: Energy factory
Duration	5 min
Type of activity	Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive
The goal of the exercise	Stimulating your body and mind, energizing participants, activating and opening their bodies.
Group size	3-20 participants
Hashtags	#energy #movement #break
Apps	Zoom, Microsoft teams, Google Hangouts or other.
Materials	No additional materials are needed.
Exercise agenda	This simple exercise will help you to increase the energy in the group. It is great when you need to release the tension that has accumulated in the bodies of participants. Invite the participants to move away from their computer screens. They can leave the cameras on or off – let each person decide for themselves. Now, ask participants what movement comes to their minds when they think about: “energy factory”?How can the body start producing energy? Would it be jumping, running in place, shouting, shaking, dancing, or self-massaging? For one minute, let each person imagine that he/she is an energy factory and do all the movements that come into his/her mind and are pleasant for him/her. You can repeat this exercise several times during the workshop. At the end of the exercise you can encourage people to share their thoughts – how do they feel more energetic?
Possible modifications	If you do this exercise more than once during the whole workshop, first do it with the cameras turned off – it will make people feel more relaxed, next time you can encourage participants to leave the cameras on and try to be inspired by others.
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