Psychological games can help a person overcome many difficulties. Failures in personal life, problems in the family or in a career - all this can be corrected not only with the help of psychoanalysis, but also with the help of fun therapy. But how can these techniques help a teenager? Peculiar games will help the younger generation get to know each other, establish communication, and learn how to easily cope with difficult life situations.
Snowball
This is one of the most popular psychological dating games. Any person falling into an unfamiliar environment is a little lost and begins to be shy. Especially often this happens in adolescents. To remove this psychological barrier and help people communicate normally, you can play a fun game called Snowball. What is its essence? People become in a circle. The host voices his name. The person who stands to the right of the presenter repeats the name he previously heard and pronounces his own. The next one should say three names. Such a game may not help to quickly remember the names of all those present, but it will definitely help to break the ice, and people will begin to feel more relaxed. Namely, this is what is required from such quick therapy.
Back issues
Psychological games are an opportunity to get useful knowledge in a simple way. The technique of backward questions helps a person gain time before his interlocutor begins to drive his opponent into a dead end. And also this technique will help a person get away from unpleasant questions or skip to more familiar topics. How can such psychological training be transformed into a game? Simply. It is necessary to break the participants into two teams. The leader calls one person. And now all the people from the opposing team are starting to ask questions. They can be either on any given topic or arbitrary. The task of man is to answer the question with a question. The host writes down how many answers the participant will manage to give in a minute. When the time is up, a person leaves the other team, and accordingly questions are already being asked to him. The results are summarized when all the people from the teams performed. This psychological game for adults is the same as for teenagers. It is never too late to improve your oratory and communication skills.
The road of life
It's always hard for teenagers to talk about themselves. And in order to help them somehow do this, you can conduct a psychological game. Her name is corresponding: "The road of life." The meaning of the game is that each participant is given a pencil and a sheet of paper. In 10 minutes, a person must draw a road and then mark it, which will depict the main moments and events in a personās life. And here you can include everything - from the very first memory to all the medals and diplomas that were received in the last year of study. People on such cards draw the most pleasant and flattering. And then with this dear life you will need to speak to others. You need to tell others about all the notes from the sheet. This is psychologically simple to do, because a person likes to expose himself in a pleasant light.
In a similar game, you can make another level. Here you will need to draw another road on the back of the sheet and make marks again. They should write on what you want to achieve and in what order. It will be a peculiar plan of your life, a route of the area that may turn out to be inaccurate. But itās better to have some kind of card than not to have any.
What happens ifā¦
Psychological games for teens are different. Some of them help to get acquainted with peers, others help to establish communication, and still others develop a person as a person. The game "What will happen if ..." is from such philosophical ones. It makes teenagers think about those vital issues that they have not yet thought about because of their age. But you still have to make a decision, and itās better to do it deliberately than to solve problems in a hurry and on the go. So what are the rules of the game? The guys are divided into two teams. The facilitator asks complex questions to the teams, and each of the participants gives answers in turn. Accordingly, the winning team is the one that collects the most points. What questions can I ask here? Here are the samples:
- What will you do if a flood happens?
- What happens if people stop working on an unloved job?
- What happens if a person always tells the truth?
- What will you do if your parents divorce?
- What happens if people learn to read minds?
- What happens if people can fly?
- What happens if animals learn to talk?
Mafia
One of the most popular psychological games for children is the Mafia. Its rules are very simple. There are civilians, but there is a mafia. The task of the mafia is to kill civilians, the task of civilians is to calculate the mafia. This game has various variations. Other roles can be included in it, if the number of players allows. For example, the commissioner and the doctor are those characters who create additional dynamics in the mafia. This psychological board game has long been an integral part of almost any party. And this is very good. Children learn observation, begin to get to know each other better and look at how their friends lie. It will help in life. The guys will be able to recognize lies and quickly bring people to clean water. And most importantly - they will learn to express their thoughts beautifully and clearly, and they will also be able to better understand the people around them, even unfamiliar ones.
Hide and seek in the dark
All people love games. And even when growing up, not every person loses a child in himself. Therefore, psychological games for teens can be formed from the well-known fun. For example, you can upgrade hide and seek and make hide and seek in the dark. How to conduct such a game? All children are blindfolded and untwisted. And now teens should walk around the room, bump into each other and guess by touch who is standing in front of them. Moreover, the voice can be used only when the name is announced. The guessed person is eliminated. Therefore, if a teenager has a too specific appearance, it will be easier for him to run away, and this is not prohibited by the rules. The game helps children relax, improve their imaginative thinking and become more open.
Rearrangement
Psychological games for children are aimed not only at improving communication skills or at liberating the individual. With the help of entertainment you can improve the intellectual abilities of the child. You can also develop alertness, intuition, and mindfulness. But this will only happen if the teenager makes contact and invests in the game with enthusiasm. The benefit of this kind of entertainment will be even if the child becomes indifferent to sit on a chair and watch carefully. But itās one thing to understand with your head, and itās another thing to participate, to communicate directly with peers and learn to find a common language with everyone.
Psychological games and exercises can improve memory. And the easiest way to do this is to engage the guys and turn boring exercises into an exciting game. Two people are selected: one will be the leader and the other participant. The participant leaves the room, and at this time his companions build a composition from their bodies. Then a man enters. His task is to remember the location of all people in two minutes. Now the participant leaves, and the leader swaps the three members of the composition. The task of a person whose memory is experienced in such a sophisticated way is to determine what changes have occurred and to return all people to their original places.
Can you trust
Psychological games and exercises can be aimed at improving relationships in the team. Teens will become better at communicating if they can trust each other. But trust is a valuable gift, and no one will give it to anyone. Therefore, you need to make sure that children can trust. And as you know, trust is only possible in conjunction with periodic inspections. So, you can spend a kind of psychological horror game. What do children need to do? Group members should be divided in pairs. Now you can build children in two lines, some should be behind the backs of others. And now, in turn, teenagers standing in the front row should fall on their hands standing behind. It is very difficult psychologically to do this. Therefore, the leader should watch carefully so that neither the first nor the second will cheat. The falling person should be completely relaxed and should be told not to bend his knees. But the second person should be focused and ready to catch the one in front. When the first line all falls, the teenagers switch places. Now those who catch are falling, and those who are falling are catching.
Conflict situation
Thinking of a psychological role-playing game? Pay attention to conflicting issues. What is the use of these tasks? Very rarely, a person can quickly navigate in an unusual situation. Thoughts go astray, people start to panic and, as a result, commit rash acts. But if a person can lose strange and incomprehensible situations in his head, it will be easier for him to navigate in life. It is for this that transformational psychological games were invented. Do not be afraid to spend them with teens. Letās look at the example of āConflict situationsā. This game is pretty simple. Two volunteers come out. The host will ask you any situation, for example, how you will behave if your classmate hits you on the head with a backpack. One of the volunteers will become a victim, and the other an attacker. Now the players' task is to get out of this situation without quarrels and insults. But such games can be held not only with adolescents. Adults are no less likely to face difficult life situations. Predicting and deciding them in advance, a person will feel more confident.
Equilateral triangle
Interesting children's psychological games can be held to rally the team and teach children how to work in a team. The fact is that most children are selfish. They used to be the center of the universe. And it is very difficult for them to realize that this is not so. Therefore, the sooner you teach a child to share and collaborate with peers, the better. And this is easiest to do in the form of a game. For this purpose, fun called "Equilateral Triangle" is perfect. How to play it? The children are blindfolded and put into the room. The room is empty, except for the tape lying on the floor. The tape is quite long, and its ends are connected to each other. It turns out such a big closed ring. The task of the children is to stretch the tape into a triangle. Each of the children should walk around the room and find lying material on the floor. When all the children pick up the tape, they will need to cooperate and line up so as to form an equilateral triangle. But how to do it? Guys should be guided by the voice. Or you can appoint one person, who must step by step measure the distance from one corner of the triangle to another. But you canāt suggest this idea to children. They must guess for themselves.
How much we know about each other
This psychological game for rallying needs to be carried out with guys who already know something about each other. Great fun for holding it at the classroom hour at school. Teens are often divided into small companies and communicate by 4-5 people. And to make these small groups cohesive, you can have a quiz. The teacher, who will act as the leader, must prepare 5 questions for each student. And then you should break the children into teams. The guys should be divided according to the principle: whoever does not communicate with anyone, he falls into the same team. Now you should have a quiz. The team comes up with the answer to each question together. Thus, children will have a chance to get closer and learn more about their classmates. Moreover, the information that will be acquired in this way will be stored in memory much better than if each person simply did a brief review about himself. Such a quiz can be held not only in order to get to know each other. Questions can be asked from various fields of knowledge. The main thing is to mix guys in teams for each such quiz. Thanks to this, teens will have the opportunity to get to know their classmates better.
Crocodile
Everyone loves pantomimes. Yes, many people prefer to guess them than to show. The socio-psychological game "Crocodile" helps teens to liberate themselves, as well as have fun spending their free time. Due to the fact that you have to speak in front of a large gathering of strangers, the child will acquire skills in working with the public, as well as acting skills. After all, showing pantomime is quite difficult. Moreover, adolescents are no longer children, and they can make their friends such complex words as a nuclear power plant. It is simply impossible to show this concept without using imagination. In "Crocodile" you can play in different ways. For example, all those present can split into two teams and guess pantomimes for a while. And you can play when each person is responsible for himself. In the second case, points do not need to be counted. In the first version, it will be more interesting to play when the leader will count points. Be sure to read the rules before the start of the game. When showing pantomimes, you cannot use your voice, and you cannot point your finger at objects in the room.
Rewriting fairy tales
This psychological training game can be conducted with adolescents in order to awaken creativity in them, as well as to develop imagination. We all know classic tales. But few people think that most folk tales and legends are far from a happy ending. But itās always more pleasant to read a story that ended with a happy end. Especially if it is nontrivial. So you can spend an interesting game on writing such stories. At the same time, it can be combined with self-determination training. For example, you should give the children a task, write a profession that a person chooses for himself in the future. And set the task for the children: you should write a story about Little Red Riding Hood, but at the same time make sure that the main character is a firefighter, doctor or engineer. Moreover, the profession should not be directly mentioned. After all, a written fairy tale will still need to be read before peers, and they will have to guess about the profession of your dreams. You can specifically make branches, for example, if the child has not decided who he wants to become - a cook or a technologist. From this, a fairy tale can only become more colorful.
Decision of business
Probably everyone would like to feel like a detective. But not everyone chooses this difficult profession. But everyone can take their leisure time by discovering a fictional murder. There are also psychological problems. They check the mindset of a person, his logic and temperament. The name they are danetki. What is the essence of such puzzles? A person tells you about a fictitious crime or, in general, about any situation. Now your task is to find the answer. But questions should be structured so that the facilitator can answer them only with "yes" or "no." It is interesting to play such games both for two teenagers and a large company. In the second case, the presenterās task will not only be to answer questions, but also to pacify the boisterous public.
Here is an example of one of the mysteries: they found a man in the desert, a broken match in his hands. What happened What will the game look like? Approximately such questions arise in the head: was the person killed? Is the match relevant? The deceased could not find a way out of the desert? Only one corpse was found in the desert? The answer to this riddle is this: people flew in a balloon, its dome burst, and those flying threw off all the ballast, but this was not enough. People pulled lots on matches, and the one who pulled the broken one jumped out of the ball.