Coloured Ball Debrief

January 10, 2012 by
Filed under: Debrief Strategies 

Wonderfully creative and random way to debrief your group’s experience.

At A Glance

Participants are asked to randomly pull a ball out of a bag, the colour of which will direct the focus of their response.

What You Need

  • Selection of balls (different colours) or other multi-coloured items.
  • Form one large or several small groups.
  • Everyone standing or sitting in a circle.

What To Do

I love to use this technique because it’s creative and produces totally random results.

It may sound like… “In a moment, I will pull a series of balls out of this hat. Each of the balls is a different colour, and each colour represents something in particular about today’s lesson. For example, when I pull a yellow ball out of the hat I want you to share a highlight, if I pull a black ball I want you to share something about today you didn’t like, if I pull a red ball I want you to share something you saw someone else do today, or if I pull a blue ball, I want you to share something you learned today. Okay, our first ball is…”

Variations

  • Choose to direct each question for the whole group to answer.
  • Pass the bag around the circle so each person can pull their own coloured ball.
  • Return the ball back into the bag after each response.

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One Comment on Coloured Ball Debrief

  • Katherine on Wed, 18th Apr 2012 9:10 pm

I have been using this activity as a debrief for some training course that I have been running. It is a creative and different way to get responses from people and they have all loved it. We have then talked about how the questions for each colour could be changed to suit mulitiple situations. We have been using the coloured plastic balls from the kids ball pits. Thanks for the great idea!

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