The ice breaking  let the participants knows better each other and integrate. The exercise is good for the group 4-8 people, if we have more participants we should divide them for smaller groups. 

Usually people don’t know about the strengths of the colleagues, neighbours or friends.

The exercise let them know about it and of course about themselves too.

The trainer should prepare: small pieces of paper in red colour or pictures of the brick. He should have 1 or 2 per person. The number of “the brick” depends on how well he know the group and how they know each other. If the groups is quite new and the participants don’t know more about others, 1 piece of paper is enough. Apart from it, the trainer needs: adhesive tape, scissors and pencils. 

The trainer explain the idea of the exercise. It should let all of the participants know their strengths and build trust. If they know what others know, can, the group can use the knowledge and skills to work better, to help each others. It can be the wall which protect them, to block the problems.

The trainer gives every person 1 (or 2 if we know the group very well) “brick”:

Explain the participants that everybody should think about own strengths. It can be any knowledge or skill, for example knowledge about classic music or painting skills. The time for the thinking is 3-5 minutes. Later everybody should write the strengths on the “brick” (just only 1). Write the name on the “brick” too. The next task is “build the group’s wall” using  adhesive tape.

If the wall is ready, the trainer read the text and inspire the short discussion, using w few of the questions:

Do you know something new about others?

Do you know better what is your strengths?

What do you think about working group- can it do more than 1 person?

Will be easier to ask others about help?

Will be easier to divide the tasks between the participants of the group?

If the trainer plans work longer with the group can paste “the wall” and remind the strangers before next activities, tasks.