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Foundation Bristol: Little Service: 20 Questions
by Bruce 28/04/08
This is a group exercise for pairs that'll take about 20 minutes. It is designed to get people talking and to get to know people better. Each pair has the list of questions and they take it in turns asking each other questions.
If there are two people then they can be A and B. If it is A’s turn to answer a question, A give B a number between 1 and 20 and B asks A the question. We tried this last night and it worked very well with some surprises between pairs who thought they knew each other well.
The exercise was topped and tailed with more ritualistic elements of prayer and breaking of bread.
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1. what did you have for breakfast this morning?
2. what is your favourite journey?
3. if your house was burning down, what one thing would you run back in to save?
4. which book or song do you most wish you’d written?
5. what makes you most angry about the world as it is today?
6. what one invention could you not live without?
7. if you could ask god one question, what would it be?
8. what’s your favourite flavour of yoghurt?
9. who does your washing?
10. are you a cat person, a dog person, or a fish person?
11. what instrument would you most like to play?
12. what happened in your summer holidays when you were a kid?
13. who amongst your closest friends is on your mind the most and why?
14. is there a name you would rather have been called?
15. which celebrity would you most like to teach something to and what would it be?
16. can you think of something that you haven’t ever told anyone else?
17. what super power would you most like and what would you use it for?
18. what one thing would i most like to change in my life?
19. what have you never tried that you secretly think you’d be fantastic at?
20. if success was guaranteed what would you do?
Thanks for these questions Bruce. I used them at the start of a staff day for Urban Saints yesterday. They’re a great mixture of questions that allowed people to discover new things about their colleagues. I cut them up and put a set in an envelope and people took it in turns to pick one out and ask their partner, so there was a ‘lucky dip’ element to it.
Hi Jen
Good idea with the envelope! It seems to work well with groups that already know each other – makes you realise how little you do actually know about each other.
By the way, what’s your answer to 6, 8 and 15?
invention - heart rate monitor as that has transformed my running
yogurt - Yeo valley natural, or M&S;rhubarb
celebrity - Katie Price - to love and accept her body as it is instead of sculpting it into some caricature of femininity.
what about you?
Thanks for your answers Jenny!
Invention – Bicycle. I have one hybrid bike for getting too and fro. And one unicycle from when I used to be a circus performer. I still have an ambition to learn to ride a giraffe unicycle.
Yogurt – I used to be able to get a honey and custard thick yogurt but not any more. It was my favourite.
Celebrity – Well, I’d love to teach creativity techniques to people in positions of power. The last PM made some dire decisions that a bit more creativity could have improved.