Activities - Demonstrations of Spiritual Principles

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Virtues Balloon Game

Submitted Friday, September 15, 2006

Courtesy of Elizabeth Chapman, USA.

I just happened to have two bags of balloons around the house from past parties.  One set was all  yellow, the other set, all black.  I brought a black permanent marker for the yellow balloons and a gold metallic marker for the black balloons.  The participants were asked to write a virtue on a yellow balloon and the absence of a virtue on a black balloon. 

Participants were then asked to make a game with the balloons.  Spontaneously the balloons started to ascend as participants kept them afloat and mixed them up.  Then someone said,  "Now let's grab a different yellow and  black balloon from the air".  As we sat in a circle with the balloons, one participant spontaneously began to describe a story problem in which the negative quality was predominant.  Another in the circle began to describe how the virtue on her yellow balloon could help the situation and she offered her yellow balloon to the storyteller as a remedy to the problem.      

We then went around the circle taking turns creating stories from the black balloons and offering the story teller solutions from our yellow balloons.  As we all ended with one black and one yellow balloon in hand, to sum up what we discovered, we went around the circle one more time explaining our situation with the black balloons and the resolution with the yellow balloons.      

It happened very spontaneously and surprised us all.  It was delightful. 


Great idea. I'm going to use it. I suggest using white instead of black. Black is used in society for persons of color. Too often the color black is used to denote negative characteristics.
Posted by Jan on April 24, 2011 at 2:07 pm
 

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