imagination development

[Connie Lawrence]

Dear Adam,

I love to play!  This sounds great. 

We sometimes do "add a line" in making up a story.  Someone starts with an opening line and people add in, one sentence at a time, and continue making up the story.  It can also be done with improv-type acting.  You tap someone on the shoulder and step into the scene and make it go in whatever goofy direction you want. 

I am now working with youth - so games rule.  I have one called "I've got your back" where you kids stick poster paper on their backs and run around writing what they like about each other on their backs.  
Their is also high-speed circle sociometry, called "I love my neighbor" (where you call out criteria, like "I love everyone who BRUSHED THEIR TEETH!") and everybody races to another chair like musical chairs.  Loser stands up and calls out the  next criteria.  Usually the criteria narrows, so kids get to find out who is an only child, for example.  Who has a gerbil.  Lots more.

I also used games back in business life.  Sales meetings and trainings were often done as "family feud" or "the price is right" or something like that. 

I am working on a game now called "baseball boundaries", where the pitcher keeps upping the ante and NO has to become firmer as you round the bases.  It is a great way to build the range from polite no...to a direct no, to.....eventually BACK OFF!  
Yes, I'll play!
Warmly,
Connie  
Connie Lawrence, MSW, LSW, CET II
Adventures in Well-Being and "Rock the House!"
clawrence05 at windstream.net
216-233-1600
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Adam Blatner 
  To: list at grouptalkweb.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:46 AM
  Subject: imagination development


  Dear Colleagues,
     I'm working up a program on Imagination Development for the conference, and it occurred to me to set up a webpage with ideas; and further, to invite you to share ideas that come to you. I don't want warm-ups that you've seen in books, but things that pop into your mind that might be fun. Imagine that you will be giving a class of adults (or maybe bright teens) on this theme, and you're just playing around with what might be some fun exercises. If I use what you'll send, I'll append your name.
   Examples:
        * Make up a funny word
        * What might that word describe?
        * Consider something that happens that there is no word in our language to describe it?  What might that be?
        * Do you have a doohickey or thingamabob around the house that, if you didn't know what it was or did, it would be very hard to guess? (There was actually a TV show some decades back that used these items as a kind of quiz: Four experts would offer plausible descriptions of the provenance---the function and history---of some item; one of them was authentic. The contestants had to try to guess which of the four was genuine.
         * etc.

      If you want to play with me, you're welcome.

  Adam Blatner, M.D.
     website: www.blatner.com/adam/   


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