Are Your Youth Bored With Playing The Same Old Icebreaker games? Discover What You and Your Youth Have Been Missing Out On…  I’m sure you’re familiar with this problem. Picture this: you’re planning a youth event or a small group get-together.  You want your youth to mix around with newcomers and meet new people. Or you want adult volunteers to be at ease with one another.  You are leader at a team building event. Or you’re taking on a new class and you want your students to feel more at ease with you.

No worries!  Everyone knows the best way to get youth involved and getting to know one another is to play a game, an icebreaker, where they can meet people.  Why?

    * icebreakers are a great way to set the tone for any class or meeting.
    * With icebreakers you automatically encourage and increase classroom participation - they are great motivators!
    * icebreakers work to create a better more relaxed learning environment.
    * icebreakers can energize – Sometimes it is just a good idea to shake things up a bit, especially in the middle of the meeting when feet begin to tap, pencils begin to doodle, and eyelids begin to droop. They are great energizers!
    * icebreakers allow your participants to get involved both physically and mentally in the program which always creates a better learning environment.
    * icebreakers can be great topic lead-ins.
    * Iceibreakers can be developed to help identify group and individual goals and objectives.

I’m sure you knew all that already.  So you dust off your good old Icebreaker book and flip through the pages only to discover… Hey!  I’ve done all these icebreakers before!  And I’m sure the youth have too.  And you begin that all too familiar desperate quest for new icebreaker ideas.

Ok, so you need new icebreaker ideas, where did you go?

The trusty neighborhood bookstore.  You get there all excited, make a beeline for the games section but… you’re sorely disappointed.  You look around and all you see are over-priced, over-used, clichéd Icebreaker game ideas.  Never mind, no worries, there’s always the internet right?

Wrong!  The same over-priced, over-used, clichéd Icebreaker game ideas - the only difference is these icebreakers cost more.  Big promises, small delivery, poor outcomes.  So now it’s the last minute and you decide to dredge out one of the popular favorites.  You arrive at the event all ready to wow the crowd with your icebreaker.  You start with your welcome and tell them you’re gonna play an icebreaker game.  That wonderful hot favorite of an Icebreaker you chose.  You announce the name of the icebreaker and… that’s right!  Groans fill the room – they’ve played that one before and they didn’t like it. How many youth meetings have you sat through that were the same way?

Yes, I’ve been there.  My youth have been there too, if their groans of boredom were any indication. Racking my brain to come up with something new only to fall back on an over-used icebreaker idea.  Or heading to the bookstore or researching the internet wasting hours searching.  Who wants to waste their time and their youth budget on all that?

I’m sure you’re smarter than that!

I made a decision that I was not going to subject my youth group to any more of those tired old icebreaker game ideas.  I started my own resource library of icebreakers.  I wanted only the best.  I chose only the ones my youth thought were fun from many years of organizing youth events.

I’ve organized a ton of youth events from large scale to small group settings and found the best ones.  Actually no --I chose those that the youth WANTED and ASKED to play.

I think it’s high time I did you all a big favor.

Introducing… Icebreakers Ahead: Take it to the Next Level......