How about this for a fun (and potentially revealing!) ice-breaker/prompt? I hope to use this with my future Creative Writing for Wellbeing groups...
The Alphabet Game Give all participants an A4 piece of paper. Ask them to write the letters of the alphabet down the left hand side of the piece of paper. They should then write the first word that pops into their head that begins with each letter of the alphabet. Encourage them to go with their first thought, no matter how boring or random they think they are. When everyone is done, go round the group with everyone reading out their words for A one after each other, resulting in a non-stop barrage of words beginning with A! Some words may appear more than once, others may be completely unexpected! Go round the group for each letter of the alphabet. Ask the group to reflect on the following:
This can also be done with colours of the rainbow, emotions, animals, places.....It is interesting to note that different people have different associations with each of these seemingly universal things..
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