Trainers’ Toolkit – What is your spirit animal?

	Exercise nr 36:  What is your spirit animal?
Duration	15-20 min
Type of activity	Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive
The goal of the exercise	The aim is to introduce and warm-up participants to use their creativity.
Group size	3-10
Hashtags	#introduction #teambuilding #metaphor
Materials and tools necessary for the activities	Miro, Padlet or Jamboard
Exercise agenda	A simple exercise for group introduction and boost participants’ creativity. Ask participants to take a deep breath and think about what animal they feel like today.  Give them a moment and ask if they have their choices. Ask them to respond with their thumb up or down reaction.  The next task is to find relevant images on the internet and download them. Then share it on a joint board on Miro, Jamboard or Padlet web app.  In the next step, participants will create a collage of animals. Ask participants to introduce themselves, revealing which picture they posted and explaining their choice. Ask participants to invite by name the next person to speak. In the end, talk for a while about what you see in the pictures. Did anything surprise, interest or amuse you?
Possible modifications	At the end, you can ask participants to write their names next to their posted images. If you are working with a pre-existing group, you can ask participants to guess which animal represents their colleagues. After they write everything down, ask them to share it in the chatbox (for example, ask “Who is the elephant?” and let them write their answers. Then, the real “elephant” introduces themselves).
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