Storytelling: Impromptu Delivery with Image

Storytelling: Impromptu Delivery with Image

This is entertaining exercise on getting delegates to quickly think of a story to tell based on a visual prompt. The options allow you to bias the exercise based on what you want delegates to pract...

Acting Exercise: Impromptu Delivery

Acting Exercise: Impromptu Delivery

This entertaining exercise helps delegates practice their acting in front of an audience. Each person will be required to deliver a speech about a given topic. You can vary the exercise by expectin...

Storytelling Exercise: Make a Story from an Image

Storytelling Exercise: Make a Story from an Image

Use this exercise to get the delegates design a story based on a single image. The choice of these images can greatly influence the exercise, so use this much like a template to craft a training ex...

Creative Writing Exercise: An Intriguing Phone Conversation

Creative Writing Exercise: An Intriguing Phone Conversation

This is powerful exercise in creative writing where delegates get to write a phone conversation based on certain limiting criteria. The structured approach to writing helps to make the task more cr...

Story Telling Exercise: Design a Story and Act It

Story Telling Exercise: Design a Story and Act It

This is an entertaining and creative exercise which can serve a variety of purposes. You can use it for subjects such as story making, storytelling, communication skills, acting and creative writin...

Creativity Exercise: Employ Your Favourite Actor

Creativity Exercise: Employ Your Favourite Actor

In this exercise, delegates get to practice making a TV advertisement. The aim is for the delegates to think creatively and quickly with given resources and come up with an effective ad for a new p...

Body Language Exercise: Guess the Initial Mood

Body Language Exercise: Guess the Initial Mood

This exercise helps illustrate an important point on body language. As soon as we see a person, we read their body language quickly to establish their mood and we can be fairly good at this. The pr...

The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect

Purpose Sometimes a little action can lead to a lot of change as the actions are amplified. This exercise helps delegates see this effect in a symbolic exercise on gestures on what is famously kn...

Acting Exercise: Act For Your Group Until You Win

Acting Exercise: Act For Your Group Until You Win

This exercise helps participants to practice acting in front of a small audience. The ideal acting is one that conveys information as quickly and efficiently as possible. People need to think of id...

No More Soap: Make it Assertive

No More Soap: Make it Assertive

Many countries around the world regularly broadcast soap operas on TV; social programs which usually contain a lot of angry and emotional discussions between various extreme characters. This exerci...

Acting Exercise: Moving and Following

Acting Exercise: Moving and Following

This is a quick acting exercise which is usually used to get delegates familiarise themselves with space and movement. It encourages people in looking carefully and being constantly aware of their ...

Acting Exercise: Boost Performance Using Sensory Acting

Acting Exercise: Boost Performance Using Sensory Acting

The ability to act allows you to adopt different roles as you see fit. To be good at emotional intelligence, it is very important to understand emotions and be able to express appropriate emotions ...

Acting Exercise: Act Like an Actor

Acting Exercise: Act Like an Actor

This is a useful exercise in acting. Use this exercise to help people adopt certain roles or learn how to imitate target behaviours. Acting and understanding how an ideal role feels like can help d...

Telephone Exercise: Challenging Telephone Conversations

Telephone Exercise: Challenging Telephone Conversations

Knowing how to talk on the phone is critical these days as a lot of communication takes place on the phone. Many times, you may need to respond to unusual requests or remarks and think on the spot ...

Acting Exercise: Act Out The Roles

Acting Exercise: Act Out The Roles

In this exercise, participants learn how to act or roleplay certain roles. Acting is a very useful skill. It can greatly help people to place themselves in position of others and learn to think lik...

Communication Exercise: Mime It Out!

Communication Exercise: Mime It Out!

This is a fun activity which can be used to demonstrate the importance of non-verbal communication as well as a good energiser. This exercise is most suited to bigger groups of delegates but can be...

Communication Exercise: Job Pantomime

Communication Exercise: Job Pantomime

This fun exercise generates a lot of laugh and is very effective in putting participants in a good mood especially after a long training session. Although designed as a communication exercise, it c...

Energiser: Synchronised Movement

Energiser: Synchronised Movement

This is a fun activity which can be used as an energiser or icebreaker within any group of people. The physical movement associated with this exercise makes it ideal for long training sessions wher...