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D.3. Gripes Auction

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Resource Type: Game in: English

Age 10 - 18

Group Size 10 - 58

Estimated Time: 45 minutes

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This is a good non-specific ventilation exercise for tension, but the trick is to keep it light-hearted, encourage a fair amount of noisy competition - and not to let it get tedious: not all the gripes need to be sold.

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D.3. Gripes Auction

Cards or pieces of paper should be prepared in advance with each gripe (listed below) written as a separate card.
Pencils and paper should be distributed to all the participants.
All the gripes are read out first, so that participants can decide on what to bid.
The leader then holds a series of these cards, each featuring a different gripe, and begins putting them up for auction, in a light-hearted manner.
Each person has 100 points to spend. A sheet of paper should be reserved to note "buyers" and the "sale price" for each gripe, so that no-one spends more points than he or she has. Buyers, of course, receive the gripe cards they have purchased.
When the auction is over, those who hold cards explain why their particular gripe is important and how it affects their lives.

List of Gripes

Banks

Little Children

Gossip

Greasy Food

Heat

Baby-sitting

Dogs

Broken telephones

Dirty Toilets

Smokers

Pocket money

Vandalism

People who yell

Newspapers

Sports

Drama lesson

Burglars

Parents

Cats

School dances

Israeli men

School

Homework

Dentists

Crowds

Brothers

Books

Violence

People who push ahead in line

Sisters

Teachers

Television

Falafel

Youth club

Grandparents

Policemen

Doing Laundry

Holidays

Pollution

Fashions

Shopping

Doctors

Inefficiency

 

Variation:
Brainstorm the group's own list of gripes and work with that, instead of the above. No personality types from the group, please…



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