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Liberating Structures, Warm up activities
Wild Tea / Mad Tea

Maha Bali
This activity promotes small group intimacy and collaboration, making a large group session feel interactive.
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Promote small group intimacy and collaboration and make a large group session feel interactive. Focus attention ahead of a session.
This is a Liberating Structure in development (Impromptu networking, a classic Liberating Structure is similar, but we didn’t record a video about it, so we refer to it here as an adaptation, even though it is an established approach in its own right).
Energizing participants at the beginning of a meeting or class, give them opportunities to talk to each other in pairs or trios (for the breakout room version) or hear from the whole class quickly (for the text chat version).
Using the breakout room version can also help prime participants for structured/timed activities later on that require concise answers and care in making space for others to speak during a limited timeframe.
Slides with prompts written on them.
This activity takes about 2-3 minutes per prompt, and can work well for anything from 3-6 rounds or so.
Here are some adaptations and alternative tools:
See also Impromptu Networking description on the Liberating Structures site.
For you to adapt.
This activity is one of a series of activities from Equity Unbound, focused on equitable online community building.
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