Anyway, I think what I'm going to share below is more suitable to teachers or anyone who's handling a group of diverse people and trying hard to unite them together.
The Line Game was initiated by Erin Gruwell when was cracking her head to bring the multi-racial class together. It's to find a common ground over the diversities among all the races. This is what she did.
She drew a line (using masking tape) to divide the class into two. Then she asked half of the students to stand on the left and other half on the right. (Like the picture below)
Image source - www.spiritualityandpractice.com
Then she asked series of questions, whenever the answer is yes, the students from both sides must step on to the line.
At first the questions are fun based ... like who owns the latest album of Snoop Dog. And then the questions got personal ... like who stays with mom and dad. And then it got serious, and this is the turning point for the students ... question such as:
- who lost someone on gang fight?
- who lost more than 1 person?
- who lost more than 3 ppl?
And when they see so many of them actually experiencing the same pains, regardless of their races, they understood there and then that they are all the same. They felt the same pain. They had the same hardships.
This technique plus others are mapped out clearly in Erin Gruwell's book - The Freedom Writers' Diary Teachers' Guide.
And I managed to take a sneak peek from the website I found. :p Inside they shared 11 pages of details of how The Line Game works and another technique for creative teaching called - Toast for Change (Pic below).
Image source - www.spiritualityandpractice.com
You can check it out too at this link. Hope it'll be useful for you.
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