At tonight’s Idea Market, we are going to do something I’ve tried before, but with a few twists.  It is an Icebreaker Icebreaker.  It works like this:

The room is divided into groups of 4-6 people.  Each group is given 20 minutes to “invent” a new icebreaker exercise.  The “icebreaker” must be easy to explain, it must take ten minutes or less from start to finish, it must introduce everyone in a similarly sized group to one another, and it must be completely new.

After each group develops their icebreaker (and experiments with it on themselves), they pair up with a second group and each group uses their icebreaker exercise to meet the people in the other group.

Finally, depending on the number of people in the room, each team can describe their icebreaker to the rest of the group.