exercise · all tools
Yee-haw!
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharednone
Four calls with four gestures — yee-haw passes round the circle, rattlesnake reverses it, hoedown skips a person, lasso throws it across — learned one at a time and then played at speed. The sheet is explicit that the leader has to demonstrate the energy they want back.
Hold with care
- Asks for visible enthusiasm in front of the group, which is a bigger ask of some people than the rules suggest
- Players are eliminated as the game speeds up, and the sheet's suggested criteria include hesitation and not showing enough energy
Practical
- Time
- 15 min
- Group
- 5–∞ · small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Mechanisms
- attention-training, behavioral-rehearsal, creative-expression
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- resources.trinitycollege.com/hubfs/Trinity%20Drama%20Games%20… — Drama Games (Trinity College London), open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 1 Sep 2026 — reachable
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Origin
Trinity College London, 'as suggested by drama teachers' — Drama teaching
In this directory via Drama Games (Trinity College London)
status: checked · added 2026-08-31