Name Bounce - energiser

SET UP - The Facilitator asks everyone in the group to write the name they want to use in the session, on a name card.

SET UP - The Facilitator invites the group to position themselves so everyone can achieve eye contact** and read each others' name cards comfortably^.

INSTRUCTIONS - The Facilitator invites the group to join the energise as follows:  Individually each one of us will be asked to state our name and our pro-nouns, when called upon. You'll know when you are called upon, to do this, because someone will BOUNCE this call to you using a smiley face and eye contact. After a BOUNCE please turn around yoru name card

DEMO - The Facilitator demos this first and states: ''hi my name is [x] and my pronouns are [x/x]. Then, relying on the name cards, the Facilitator makes deliberate, obvious and friendly eye contact with someone else in the group (but does not say that person's name) to BOUNCE the call to that person to go next (''hi my name is...) ALSO the Facilitator demo's that it's key to turn their name card to face themselves to indicate they've taken their turn already.

The recipient of the BOUNCE goes ahead and states their name and pronouns and BOUNCES onto anyone else by relying on the visible name cards AND turns around their name card to indicate they've taken their turn also.

Continue until everyone's name card is no longer visible and everyone has introduced themselves. 

END

REPEAT OPTION - reset with the new instruction, ''BOUNCE to someone you didn't bounce to last time''.

**INCLUSIVE VARIATIONS (if participants' eyesight is limited) invite them to BOUNCE to their immediate neighbour in the circle. E.G., ''hi my name is [x] and my pronouns are [x/x] and I am Looking and BOUNCING to my neighbour on my left/right''

INCLUSIVE VARIATIONS (Seated or Standing) If people are sat down they can put their name card in front of them, and if stood up, hold their name card comfortably, around shoulder height. 

^FOR VERY LARGE GROUPS, organise everyone into separate, smaller circles of a size where unamplified voices can be heard from one side of the circle to the other, at normal speaking volume.