Values Tableaus

Type of Game: facilitated; interactive/non-competitive/reflective                    

Number of Players: 4 - 16

Description: In this activity, group participants will have an opportunity to physically embody different values and reflect on what the values feel like in their bodies. The goal of this activity is to learn the values more deeply by reflecting on how they feel.

Instructions:

1. Activity 1: Frozen Image 

   1. Have participants stand in a circle with arms length spacing between them and close their eyes. 

   2. The facilitator or group leader turns over a value card, reads it out loud, and has participants individually shape their body into an image of that value. 

   3. Ask participants to share what it felt like to take the shape of the value

   4. Repeat a few times with different value cards.

2. Activity 2: Paired Images 

   1. In the circle, have participants pair up. 

   2. Participants decide who will be partner “A” and who will be partner “B”. 

   3. In the first found partner “A” will be the sculptor and partner “B” will be the clay. 

   4. The facilitator turns over a value card and reads it outloud. The sculptor will then sculpt the clay into an image of that value. 

   5. Take time for the sculptors to walk around and see other images. 

   6. Repeat with the partners switching who is the sculptor and who is the clay.

3. Reflection: Bring the group all together and ask

   1. What did it feel like to embody these values?

   2. Were you surprised at how you found yourself moving?

   3. What was it like to shape someone into an image?

   4. What was it like to be shaped into an image?