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GAME #2: Autobiographical Scavenger Hunt

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Opener Energizer Communication

Team-building Review Topical

❖ Purpose: To break the ice and help introduce participants to one another.

❖ Time Required: 15 minutes.

❖ Size of Group: Unlimited.

❖ Materials Required: A list of autobiographical information for each participant, prepared in advance by the trainer. ❖ The Exercise in Action: Dale Ditmanson, training specialist for the National Park Service, asks participants to send in an “autobiography” before his courses. As a course opener, he selects a line or two from each autobiography and types them as a list. Each participant is given a copy of the list as they arrive, and is then sent on a “human scavenger hunt” in the classroom until they discover which person matches each line on the sheet.

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