exercise · all tools
Greetings
Also known as: Hello, Lost Friend, Säga hej till varandra
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharednone
Players mill about and greet whoever they meet, first plainly and then as a named relationship — a long-lost friend, someone you don't trust, an ex, someone with bad breath. Each prompt changes what the same handshake means.
Hold with care
- Repeated physical greeting of everyone in the room, mostly by handshake
- Some of the source's prompts are intimate — an ex-lover, a one-night stand, someone you hate — and land differently depending on who is in the room and who they are paired with at that moment
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- ?–∞ · large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Mechanisms
- perspective-taking, behavioral-rehearsal, somatic-awareness
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- improvencyclopedia.org/games/Greetings.html — Improv Encyclopedia, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 1 Sep 2026 — reachable
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Origin
Unattributed; compiled by Improv Encyclopedia — Improvisational theatre
In this directory via Improv Encyclopedia · Dramaövningar.se
status: checked · added 2026-08-31