Equipment:
-Two large rooms with desks and chairs or a wooded area and two lengths of rope, each 50' or longer.
-Two flags for end of maze, two blindfolds

Objective:
-Participants will experience the confusion of hearing many conflicting directions at once
-participants will work together in constructing a maze
-participants will experience healthy competition between two groups
-participants will recognize the importance of short, specific directions
-participants will have fun

Description:
First have each team construct a maze.  Either by arranging desks throughout the room or by using the rope and a stand of trees.
The best mazes have lots of turns and dead-ends; they also have several directional choices (such as an area where the maze manuverer could take either a right or a left.  After building the maze, each team places their flag at the end-point or goal area of their maze.  Both teams then select a maze manuverer.  This person is blindfolded.
Now, the fun part.  You deal with one maze at a time.
Both teams stand together in a spot designated as an area where there will be no contact with the maze manuverer.  Team A's maze manuverer stands blindfolded in Team B's maze.  Both Team A and all of Team B stand together off to the side.  Now, Team A's job is to shout commands (forward, turn right, turn back, etc.) to their maze manuverer in order to reach the flag.  Team B's job is to shout the opposite commands to try to get the Maze Manuverer off track.
This is a loud and fun initiative.

PROCESSING:
Focus could be on communication of directions (from the two teams) and on frustration and the feeling the blindfolded person (maze manuverer) experienced.  A good metaphor in this situation is the classroom or parent situation: How does a person feel when everyone is talking at once?  How do people feel when they aren't getting good directions?
This is great for a class with lots of interrupters!

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