Assumptions

‍Name

Assumptions

Time required

25mins

Materials

Pens, paper, whiteboard

When

Beginning of workshop

Objectives

• Getting to know who is in the room.

Instructions

1. Split the room into groups of 5-6 people and ask each person to come up with a special fact about themselves - groups are to also write their on separate A4 sheets (every individual’s name) so that each group can guess what their fun fact is.
2. Group 1: A spokesperson from Group 1 reads out the fun facts (read them twice so scribes can write the facts), e.g. one person played waterpolo, another plays the trombone, another has 8 siblings.
3. Once all the facts from Group 1 have been read out, the other groups have three minutes to match names to the facts.
4. Each group reads back the fact and the name - someone in Group 1 counts the points of how many each group gets correct.
5. Group 1 takes turns introducing themselves and their fun fact e.g. “Kia ora I am Tammi and I played waterpolo; Talofa I’m Aroha and I play trombone.”
6. Scorekeeper to keep track on the whiteboard.
7. Repeat process for other groups.
8. Get feedback from the room on how they found that exercise.

Facilitator notes

• This activity is created to help us understand what assumptions we bring and put onto others.
• It also helps to bond the groups together by both learning a bit more about each other but also working together as a team.
• To debrief consider how everyone worked together, and what assumptions were made for some of the guesses. This  activity can be used to either dig into assumptions on people, or kept lighter as a into/ whanaungatanga exercise

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