Playformation
Focuser · Connector

Count to Twenty

The group must sense each other to succeed. Silence and listening become the skill.

8 minutes · Circle, 8–25

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How to facilitate it

  1. Eyes down or closed. Count to twenty, one voice at a time, in no set order.
  2. If two speak together, start again at one.
  3. Debrief briefly: what helped us?

Credit & lineage

Traditional ensemble concentration game; original creator not established.

Farmer is credited for the documented teaching reference, not as the claimed inventor.

David Farmer / Drama Resource: Count To 20 ↗

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