Welcome diversity

Interactively learn about diversity

Short Description

Everyone stands in a loose circle. A team member now greets different groups of people. Those greeted step into the middle or wave and everyone else applauds.
Others applaud. Now follows according to this principle a lot of applause for the most different qualities and wishes (also those which ones not have)
Examples:
– all who have a birthday in spring
-all women
-all who have children

Educational Value

• The activity is to demonstrate in a swinging way what all is in the group.
• Diversity should be perceived as the richness of the group.
• The game provides movement, a good mood and can also lead to initial questions about content (belonging, exclusion, etc.)

Recommendations for use

• Icebreaking/ Warm up
• Ask easy questions at first, then more difficult ones
• It is important that really everyone has been greeted once, if necessary additional questions are developed for this.

Tips and Tricks

How to adapt game for different groups, topics, occasions/needs: The questions can be adapted to the group and a little bit to the topic of the seminar. 

Feedback questions
Immediately after the activity, there should be no evaluation to linger in the applause mood. 

If there is a daily reflection at the end of the seminar day, it can be asked how it was to step into the middle for characteristics and if there is a reflection at the end of the day, it is possible to ask how it was to step into the middle and receive applause for qualities and wishes that are otherwise seldom noticed.
Further discussion topics

• Diversity
• Similarities and Differences