Alf Grigg's Icebreakers and Team Activities

Alf Grigg recently retired as the Training Coordinator for the South Region for the City of Toronto Parks and Recreation. He is a part-time professor at Seneca College and teaches in the Recreation and Leisure Services Program. Published author of five training booklets, three of which are recognized world-wide. Certified International Professional Facilitator that represented Canada at the world's largest community meeting in New York July 20, 2002 to help facilitate 5,000 New Yorkers opinions on the six new concepts to replace the Twin Towers. Most recently, one of his training ideas has been cited by Professor Jim Cain at Cornell University's new book "Raccoon Circles" If you would like to comment, question, or tell us about your own favorite activity, please join in the thread in our Bulletin Board under Programming, called Group Activities. Click here to go to the forum now.

Describes a model for planning presentations using a three circle approach to help develop the staff team before working on a task. Presented at the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2003 Annual Education ...
An activity that can be used as a lead-in to teamwork.
An icebreaker activity which is meant to develop communication skills without speaking the English language and can work as a method to divide participants into small groups
This simple but fun activity helps members of a group get to know each other.
In this activity, participants have an opportunity to do an effective character analysis of another participant and work on their listening skills.
An icebreaker activity intended to help you learn participants’ names while having fun.
This is an exercise to get participants to think creatively.
This simple icebreaker activity will reinforce the importance of staying motivated and refreshed.
This activity is intended to help a participant decide when and how to contribute to a group activity.
This activity is intended to help participants to solve their own problems .
This activity is designed to assist in getting the group's attention.
The purpose of this icebreaker / team building activity is to get participants feeling comfortable working together.
This activity demonstrates the use of the element of chance to make decisions.
This activity demonstrates the value of sharing a task with team or group members.
This activity is intended to introduce each person to a group and learn some information about them.
This activity describes a creative way to let participants decide on how long they take for a break.
This icebreaker is a great way to get a meeting started.
A simple, fun activity to develop team work.
The purpose of this activity is getting participants to realize the importance of evaluation.
The purpose of this icebreaker, for adults or youth, is to introduce all the participants in the group and remember their names.
An activity for when there is no pool or it has to be closed.
The purpose of these simple activity is to encourage participants to do their best by providing positive feedback.
This activity will help you deal with "I have taken this before".
The goal of this icebreaker is to observe body language of other participants in the group.
This icebreaker offers an activity to help participants communicate with one another without the use of words.
This activity addresses the problem of more than one person in a group talking at the same time.
The activity demonstrates the value of having only one person speak at once.
This simple activity is intended to get participants to understand working in a group.
This icebreaker is intended to develop communication skills, to assimilate important information and priorize questions.
This activity, suitable for youth and adults, in intended to encourage participants to to observe the body language of others in the group.
This icebreaker will help draw out each participant’s personality.
Here's an icebreaker that will get people physically active.
Here's an activity to introduce participants and re-enforce the use of their names.
Handouts from the presentation on staff and volunteer training at the Parks and Recreation Ontario 1997 Education Forum,
The purpose of this icebreaker is to get participants to work as a team.
This activity is intended to demonstrate how you can achieve more by staying focused.
This simple activity is intended to keeping participants refreshed and building on past great ideas. Concern for the environment is also an element.
This activity is intended to demonstrate that there are different strategies to solving problems.
This activity is intended to demonstrate how and why some activities are more difficult than others.
This lead-in activity will help teams to deal with negative comments and the stress of unfavourable comments in a team environment.
Here's an activity that will give participants the feeling of working together.
This icebreaker is a novel way for people to introduce themselves.
Gives the participants an opportunity to become creative and gain the feeling of working together as a team.
This activity will help to create a comfortable environment for exchanging information about group members.
This simple activity is intended to give the participants an opportunity to work together.
Here's an activity that will introduce the idea of individual differences and equality of opportunities.
In this workshop at the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2004 Annual Education Forum, participants learned how to use a crate full of experiential learning activities to deal with issues and address the l...
This activity, for all age groups is intended to give the participants an opportunity to observe and think what they are saying.
This activity is a creative way to let participants decide on how long they take for a break.
This activity is intended to get participants to realize the importance of evaluation.
This activity demonstrates the value of working in teams.
Here's an activity that will encourage participants to get to know each other and to explore issues related to the meeting or workshop.
This activity will help draw out a person's creativity.
An icebreaker activity that will help participants and groups to mix.
Here's an activity to help meet new people in a large group.
This activity demonstrate the importance of communication when working in teams.