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<center> '''Teampedia is a collaborative encyclopedia of free team building activities, free icebreakers, teamwork resources, and tools for teams.''' <br> This site is designed for group leaders, trainers, teachers, managers, camp directors, counselors, youth groups... anyone interested in enhancing collaboration and creativity.
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* '''[[Features | Special Features]]''' - "Group Brainstorming - a Bad Idea?"; "Team Building Globally, Serving Locally; "Choosing Ice-Breakers with a Purpose";[[ifficult_Situations_within_Teams | "Difficult Situations Within Teams"]]; and other articles about team building dynamics, strategies, and trends
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* NEW: [[:Category:Team_Building_Companies | Global Directory of Team Building Companies and Facilitators]] - Hire specialists to lead activities and adventures for your next event anywhere in the world.
* [[Team Building Companies | Companies, Facilitators]] - Contract with specialists around the globe to lead your group in activities and adventures
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* [[Special:Userlogin| Create an Account or Login]] - Track your edits and use special features
 
* [[Special:Userlogin| Create an Account or Login]] - Track your edits and use special features
 
* [[Team Building and Teamwork Quotes | Quotes about Teamwork]] - Be inspired!
 
* [[Team Building and Teamwork Quotes | Quotes about Teamwork]] - Be inspired!
* [[Resources | Additional Resources]] - Links to related sites and books
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* [[Resources | Additional Resources]] - Related sites and books
* Follow Teampedia on [https://twitter.com/teampedia Twitter], [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Teampedia/203378669746 Facebook], and [https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/104867022911075967865/104867022911075967865/posts Google+]
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* Follow Teampedia on [https://twitter.com/teampedia Twitter], [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Teampedia/203378669746 Facebook], [https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/104867022911075967865/104867022911075967865/posts Google+], and [http://www.pinterest.com/teampedia/ Pinterest]
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* [[Suggestions]] / [[Bugs]] - Make requests or report problems
 
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==[[:Category:Icebreakers/Warmups|Icebreakers and Warmups]]==
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==[[:Category:Collaboration| Not Only in the Movies!]]==
  
[[File:Fire.jpg|thumbnail|Gather 'round the fire]]
 
  
Help people feel comfortable and energized while getting to know each other in ways that can enhance all future collaboration.
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Icebreakers and warmups are commonly used during the first stages of team development (e.g., at the introductory meeting or class) or preceding a group gathering).  Also try them whenever people need re-charging, or when bringing in new members.
 
  
Isn't this winter a prime time [[:Category:Icebreakers/Warmups|to break the ice and warm up together]]?
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"I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would agree that curiosity is not the most important human trait; the urge to collaborate is. Heck . . . only we have the ability to cooperate to make like online communities and space telescopes and imaginariums and movies. So the great thrill of this whole experience [my novel being made into a movie] for me was . .. .seeing humanity do what it's best at, which ultimately is not competing but cooperating." - John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars, to be released June 6 as a motion picture. See Teampedia's collaboration activities [[:Category: Collaboration|Collaboration]]
  
You might also be interested in [[Icebreakers for Online Team Building]].
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* [[:Category: Children_can_be_included|Children in Your Group]]
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Revision as of 19:56, 22 May 2014

Teampedia is a collaborative encyclopedia of free team building activities, free icebreakers, teamwork resources, and tools for teams.
This site is designed for group leaders, trainers, teachers, managers, directors, counselors, youth groups, camps, task forces ... anyone wanting to enhance collaboration and creativity.


Gracepoint Youth Group Jumping
Browse for games and activities below or read more about Teampedia

Icebreakers & Team Building Activities - by Category

Icebreakers/Warmups | Name Games | Party Games | Collaboration | Communication | Breaking Down Stereotypes | Circle Games | Riddles | Rhythm Games | Table Games | Tag Games | Team Strategy | Diversity | New Activities... (see the Full List of Categories)

Icebreakers & Team Building Exercises - by Group Size

Small (3-10 people) | Medium (10-30 people) | Large (30+ people)


Add Your Own Activities


Enter the name of a new activity in the field above and press "Create Activity"

More!

Highlight

Not Only in the Movies!

Fault-in-our-starsStars.jpg


"I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would agree that curiosity is not the most important human trait; the urge to collaborate is. Heck . . . only we have the ability to cooperate to make like online communities and space telescopes and imaginariums and movies. So the great thrill of this whole experience [my novel being made into a movie] for me was . .. .seeing humanity do what it's best at, which ultimately is not competing but cooperating." - John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars, to be released June 6 as a motion picture. See Teampedia's collaboration activities Collaboration

Special Features

Selected Activities, Games, Exercises & Icebreakers

Ah Soh Koh | Amoeba | Ancient Number | Assassin / Spy | Battle Scars | Best Friend Introductions | Big Buddy | Birthday Lineup | Black Magic | Blind Polygon | Building the Tower | Bumpity Bump Bump | Call of the Wild | Captain's Coming! | Celebrity/Stereotype Party | Common Threads | Common Bonds | Conversation Activity | Crazy Handshakes | Egg Drop | Elbow Tag | Five Pointed Star | Giants, Wizards, Elves | Group Scavenger Hunt | Group Spot | Green Glass Door | Helium Stick | Hot Surprise Pillow | Human Knot | Human Spring Impulse | Jedi Mind Trick | Lap Sit | Lifelines | Life Map | The Maze | Minefield | Mnemonic Name Game | Name Juggling | Pass it Around | Peek A Who | Pipeline | Question Cup | Reunited | River Crossing | Robot | Shoe Tie | Silent Opera | Slappin’ Hand Circle | Song Battle | Speed Rabbit | Spider web | Stand Up Sit Down | Take as much as you need | Tarp Flip | Thumper | Tiger Tails | Toe to Toe | Toxic Waste Transport | Traffic Jam | Triangle Tag | Two Truths & A Lie | Universal Number | Warp Speed | The Wind Blows | What's in your wallet? | What's in a Name | Zen Counting | Zip Zap Zop ... or use the search box at the top of this page.

Teampedia currently hosts over 80 free icebreakers and over 200 free team building activities.