Conflict Resolution Games

Turnstyle- This activity takes a long rope or a jump rope.  Two facilitators stand in front of each other and turn the rope, much like jump rope.  The group’s objective is to get the whole group from one side of the rope to the other, without touching the rope.  The group may not go behind the facilitators and there must be one person jumping at all times.

Blind Polygon- Participants will hold onto a large circle of rope, while being blindfolded.  The facilitator will call out a shape and the group must make the shape with the rope.  Group members must at all times have both hands on the rope.  Once the entire group is satisfied with the shape, have them set the rope on the ground in that shape and take off their blindfolds.  A variation would be to have one person in the group that can see but can not talk, without the group knowing it.