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Mirror in Circle

Depth · what it can open○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readinessany
Disclosure · what is sharednone

Players find someone across the circle, make eye contact and mirror each other, then walk slowly to the centre still mirroring, arriving at the same moment as everyone else. A variation hides who is mirroring whom; another sends one player out and asks them to work out who the whole circle is copying.

Practical

Time
min
Group
? · large-group
Settings
in-person
Mechanisms
feedback-mirroring, attention-training, somatic-awareness
Change scope
state · repeatable

Instructions

Where
improvencyclopedia.org/games/Mirror_in_Circle.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

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Related: Who’s changing the movement? (alternative-to)

status: checked · added 2026-08-31