Around a large room, create three or four areas that are covered with newspapers (2 x 3 square meters approximately). Divide the group into three or four smaller groups, as many as there are “rafts”. Use a funny and fascinating narration to navigate the groups around the room (walking in a desert first on a paved street, then on to a dirt road, a stone road, avoid a snake, jump over a stream, stretch to get some fruits from the trees etc. The team at some point reaches the riverside and decides to take a swim. The participants get carried away while swimming and find themselves away from the shore).
The vi facilitator then presents the “rafts” and asks the groups to jump on them to save themselves from the possible dangers of the river. Continue the narration first by having participants row their rafts, then a crocodile appears and starts going around the rafts biting a piece out of each raft. Participants should manage to find ways to stay on the rafts as they get smaller and smaller. At some point, one of the rafts is destroyed and the members of the team have to swim and get on one of the remaining rafts. Once the activity is completed allow time for a debriefing by discussing how they collaborated, how they manage and dealt with every new crisis.
A facilitator with visual impairment should be assisted by a sighted person.The story for the whole exercise should be created before by the vi facilitator and can be any kind of story that makes the participants jump onto the "rafts". |