The mine field indoor teamwork game will help build confidence, trust, and more effective communication skills. Set up 10 or 20 cones or objects on the floor in a large, open room. Have participants pair off and give each team a blindfold. Teams take turns trying to verbally guide their blindfolded partner across the mine field of objects without running into any of the fake mines. Continue with the activity until all groups have successfully navigated the mine field while blindfolded. You can also try switching partners to help get used to different people's communication styles.
The Blind Polygon exercise will help your team build cooperation, communication and trust. Blindfold all participants. Place a rope on the ground and instruct the group to find the object on the floor before giving any further instruction. Once all members of the group have the rope in their hands, instruct them to create various shapes with the rope. When the group agrees that they have made the proper shape, have them remove the blindfolds to check their work. Repeat with different and more complex shapes. Record the session with a camera and review the video together upon completion of the activity.
Completing collective art projects together will help each member of the team highlight their own strengths and creativity while contributing to a group project. Gather art supplies and instruct the group to make a complete comic book in a couple of hours. Writers can develop the story, people who draw can sketch out the storyboard, designers can layout the cover, painters can fill in the drawings with color. Make sure you create ways for everyone on the team to participate.
Gather a group of writers and instruct them to put together a short story. Have one person begin by writing a few paragraphs of material. Pass the paragraphs to the next person, who will add a few more to the story. Continue passing the story around until everyone agrees it is complete. Read the story aloud and revise it together until the whole team is satisfied with it. Consider submitting the stories for publication or printing them for each member of the group.
In her book "The Continuum Concept," Jan Leidloff suggests doing housecleaning in teams as a way to combat the isolation and loneliness of modern civilized culture. Gather a group of people from your neighborhood. Meet once a week at a different person's house. Clean the entire house together. To make it more fun, put on music and offer lunch or snacks during breaks. Cleaning the house together will take the burden off each individual, and the cleaning will get done more quickly than you could ever hope to accomplish the task on your own. Instead of cleaning being a chore, it will be an opportunity to bond with your cleaning team and do something that benefits the whole team.