Icebreaker Activity
Are You More Like……?
Directions: Instruct group members to assemble, standing, in the center of the
room. Explain that this is a forced choice activity that will require them to move
to one side of the room or the other. Then explain that you are going to ask them
if they are more like one thing or another, and as you identify each thing you will
point to the side of the room for that thing. Participants are to move to the side
of the room identified as the thing they are more like.
Once there, participants are to discuss among themselves what made them
choose that side of the room. Before bringing the group back together, ask a
member from each side to summarize the primary reasons identified by
participants for selecting that side of the room.
Note: you will need to remind participants several times that they are not
to choose where to stand based on what they LIKE more, but based on
what they feel they are MORE like.
List of contrasting ideas (Feel free to add to or change this list):
Are You More Like…
Classical music or Hip Hop?
A Volkswagen or a Mercedes?
The city or the suburbs?
Ice cream or cake?
A lake or the ocean?
Night or day?
Spring or fall?
Source: Attributed to Marla Barr, Ph.D – Planned Parenthood Southeastern PA