The Triangulate Your Place Exercise

Triangulate Your Place is an icebreaker activity and a great way to energize the group and get your team working together. They need to remember where they belong on the triangle, and help others, too, in order to finish in time.

For this team-building game, you’ll need one participant to be the center and enough other players to form a triangle around that center person.

Assemble all but one of your team members in the shape of a triangle. They should be facing into the triangle, standing side by side to create the outline of the shape. Take the remaining person and place them, in the center, inside the triangle.

Once your team members are in place, instruct those in the triangle to remember exactly where they were in relation to the center. It helps to take several pictures with your phone in order to verify the precise orientation.

Next, instruct the center to spin as many times as they want in either direction until they are facing a different direction. As the center moves, the members of the triangle must also move in the same direction.

Without warning, the spinner should stop and stand still. At that point, the team has a set amount of time to reassemble into place so that the end result is a triangle situated correctly according to whatever direction the spinner chose to face.

The topics of this publication: interactions, integration, team bonding, motivation, disinhibition, distension, foster relationships, energize, observation skills