Type
of the game:
Adventure activity
Purpose:
1. Accept challenges
2. Overcome fears
3. Come out of your comfort zone
Group Size:
Average 15-20 people on the bridge.
Time Required
For 20
people with two rope dropping track, the activity takes about 1,5 hours.
Materials:
For rope dropping, it is important
that you have professionals, who can make the tracks. Person, who is going down
from bridge, needs to wear helmet, harness and gloves. Also he/she needs to be
attached to two ropes, which is tied to bridge.
Process:
Before
rope dropping, it is good to do briefing with participants. In briefing it is important
to ask, what participants think about the activity, what their emotions. You
can use different ways to carry out a briefing. Example, I made one circle with
ropes, where two of the rope endings were loose. Passing the rope on, when
someone got the loose ending, then he/she could talk.
Rope
dropping itself can be done in different places. We dropped from bridge. For
leader, it is important to see how participants are acting turning the activity
and act according what leaders sees. To courage participants, who scares
heights or calm down panicking participants. Also the leader receives always
help from professionals.
After rope
dropping, when there is time, it is good to do debriefing, where you should use
same method.
Reflection:
Turning debriefing, leader should
focus:
1. How participant’s emotions have been changed comparing briefing?
2. How are those feeling who didn’t go down from bridge?
3. What was the hardest thing to overcome?
4. What should be different to improve?
When doing reflection in rope dropping, leader should pay attention, what
participants are saying and ask questions according what leader hears.
What did we learn:
I learned to overcome my fears. My biggest fear
was explaining the rules in english. Although I have done rope dropping lots of
times before, in english, there is always risk that someone can’t understand.
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