Tools for Trainers: Icebreakers

Tools for Trainers

Training Exercises and Activities

In this section you will find numerous exercises and activities you can use during a course or workshop. Most are very simple and require very little planning and supplies. You may need to adapt activities to meet your specific needs. Some have names and others do not. Good luck and have fun! The exercises are divided into the following categories:

Icebreakers or Introductions help participants in a course or workshop get to know each other.

Warmups or Energizers are used throughout the course or workshop to encourage participant involvement and interaction.

Topic Lead-Ins are used introduce a topic.

Sources and Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following individuals for contributing these training exercises to ReproLine:

Individual Contributors:

Ben Lozare
Center for Communication Programs/JHU
Baltimore, MD USA

Esther Sempbwa Nagawa
Programme Officer
Gender and Advocacy
CAFS
Nairobi, Kenya

Emmanuel Oladipo Otolorin
Reproductive Health Advisor
Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care
Kampala, Uganda

Robert Rice
Director of Training
Family Health International
Research Triangle Park, NC U.S.A.

Websites:

Some of these icebreakers have been adapted with permission of Don Clark. See more icebreakers, warm-ups and other information for trainers at the following website:

http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/icebreak.html

Some of these icebreakers have been adapted with permission of Kimeiko Hotta Dover. See more icebreakers, warm-ups, lead-ins and other information of interest to trainers at the following websites:

http://adulted.about.com/education/adulted/library/blicebreaker1.htm

http://adulted.about.com/education/adulted/library/blicebreaker2.htm

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Last Updated: 09 Jul 2003

URL: http://www.reproline.jhu.edu/
Reproductive Health Online (ReproLine): a family planning and reproductive health training website

Sources and Acknowledgements

Individual Contributors: