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Ice-breakers and energisers

Every interactive training needs icebreakers to help people relax and start talking and energisers to raise energy levels when people start getting tired or lose focus. We've gathered a few of our favourites below.

Key to symbols

Time required
Short - medium - long

Difficulty 
Beginner - intermediate - advanced

Group size 
Small - medium - large

Exercises

Ground rules 
​An exercise that helps to create a positive learning environment by helping participants to define the ground rules together. 

My coat of armour 
An ice-breaker that helps participants to introduce themselves to one another, by drawing their personal coat of arms and presenting it.

The star exercise
A simple quick icebreaker that introduces the theme of human rights. 

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Human rights squares 
A good ice-breaker exercise for starting human rights trainings with, in which participants ask each other questions about human rights.

The water pitcher and water glasses
A good ice breaker to introduce to interactive learning methods to groups that aren't used to workshop style trainings.

Assumption game
A game that helps participants to recognize and analyse their own prejudices.

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Fist fight and other energisers
A selection of easy energisers. We particularly like the fist fight exercise!