COOPERATION AND EMPATHY
Cooperation and empathy cannot, of course, be separated from communication. For this reason many of the excercises in the section on communication may also be used to promote skills in cooperation and empathy.
NOTE: Our page on cooperation and empathy is under development. Please send us any good activities, exercises you know on that help to develope skills in these fields.
These exercises are Word files. To load the file down onto your computer, right click and choose "save target as".
(we thank Wolf and Water, Mediation Services Oslo, and Save the Children Norway for permission to use many of their exercises)
The activities are marked with colour codes according to the age group they are suited to:
 - Primary (6 -9 years)
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 - Middleschool (10 –13)
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 - Secondary (14-16)
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 - College (17+)
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Cooperation:
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Squares and Triangles
| Tests the ability of the group to cooperate - with their eyes shut! |
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The Chair Conflict Game
| What happens when the group are given conflicting instructions? Can they cooperate and solve the problem? |
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Off the bus
| Promotes reflection about how we cooperate with complete strangers everyday. |
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Swamp
| Tests teamwork, participatory leadership and patience. This exercise is tremendous fun, but really tests the willpower and stamina of the participants. |
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The strawtower-game
| The students participate in an exercise where they need to cooperate in order to achieve a result. |
| Empathy: | |
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Trust
| The participants will through a simple exercise experience how difficult, but necessary it is to trust someone |
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The timeline
| Promotes reflection on how much more empathy they feel for a person when they know more about them |